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Sarawak, is Malaysia's larhest State by area, the 4th largest by population, and is one of the tree Soveregin nations that formed the Federation of Malaysia on September the 16th in the year 0f 1963, the others being Malaya and Sabah, ( a fourth, being Singapore, withdrew from the Federation in 1965.) The constitutional Head of State is Yang di Pertuan Negeri (Governor) and the State is governed by the majorty grouping  in the elected State Legislative Assembly (Council Negri), which is headed by the Chief Ministerm who is assisted by a cabinet of Ministers and Assistant Ministers.
   The State capital is Kuching, which has a population of 650,000. Major Cities and towns include Miri (pop 300,000), Sibu (pop 250,000) and Bintulu (pop 180,000). At the most recent census (2010), the State population was 2.4 million. The population density is 20 people per sq km, the lowest in the Federation of Malaysia.
Sarawak's population is divided into anything between 26 and 40 ethnic and sub-ethnic groups (depending which classification method is used), The largest are the Iban (29%), the Chinese (24%), the Sarawak Malay (23%) and Bidayuh (8%). The Melanau (6%) and the Orang Ulu (a collective term for a host of upriver tribes and sub-groups, (5%) Sarawak's land area of 124,450 sq km makes it the most as large as Malaya or England and slightly larger then North Korea or Bew Mexico. It is located immediately north of the Equator between 0 degrees 50 degrees and 5 degrees north and 109 degrees 40' east. It stretch some 800 kilometres along the northwest coast of Borneo, and is separated from Peninsular Malaysia (Malaya) by the South China sea - a distance of over 600 kilometres. It borders the State of Sabah (formerly known as North Borneo) to the northeast, where the Sultanate of Brunei forms a double enclave, and Kalimantan Indonesia to the south and east.
The State is divided into three geographic areas - coastal lowlands, comprising peat swamp as well as narrow deltaic and alluvial plains; a large region of undulating hills ranging to about 300 metres; and mountain highlands extending to Kalimantan border.
About 80 per cent or almost 10 million hectares of Sarawak's total land area are covered with forest (natural as well as secondary and planted forests) the remaining 2.3 million hectares are under settlements, towns, agricultural crop cultivation and native customary rights land. Sarawak's rainforest is acknowledged to be among the world's most distinct and species-rich.