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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2822466" data-attributes="member: 130">Geography geekery ahead.Sabah is on the northernmost portion of the island of Borneo, generally to the northeast of Sarawak, the other Malaysian state that shares the island with Indonesia's Kalitmatan (which I just spelled wrong) and the Sultanate of Brunei. To the further northeast is the Philipines, with the island of Palawan being the major land body of the Philippines closest.Sabah was formerly known as North Borneo and administered as a British Crown Colony prior to its becoming a part of Mayalsia. The Philippines maintains a claim to the state which is generally dormant and based on some political maneuvering on about three hundred years ago. Slightly more recently, Sabah had a slight chance at being an American colony when an American consul leased it from the Sultain of Brunei. Washington had other things on its mind in 1865 and the lease was sold.But people tell me that I'm a lot more interested in geography than most. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>