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Kimanis is a fully integrated township and also a parliamentary constituency in the West Coast Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It is located approximately 45 kilometres south of the city of Kota Kinabalu. Kimanis used to be the base for the American company which obtained a lease over North Borneo from the Sultan of Brunei in the late 19th century. It has a minor railway station for the North Borneo Railway.
Map of 89600 Lama Kimanis, Sabah, Malaysia
In 2006, there was a proposal to relocate the current Kota Kinabalu International Airport to Kimanis in 2006. However the government finally decided it was economically more feasible to renovate and extend the present airport. The national oil and gas company, Petronas has construct a terminal here known as Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) that was completed in 2014, mainly to processing and transporting oil and gas from the West Coast Field in South China Sea, the terminal is also connected with another oil and gas terminal in neighbouring Sarawak through the Sabah–Sarawak Gas Pipeline (SSGP).