Miri

Miri is a coastal city in north-eastern Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo near the border with Brunei. The city covers 997.43 square kilometres, lies 798 kilometres northeast of Kuching and 329 kilometres southwest of Kota Kinabalu, and is the capital of Miri District in Miri Division. It is the second largest city in Sarawak, with a population of 356,900 as of 2020. Miri was founded in 1910 when Royal Dutch Shell drilled its first oil well there, and it became the administrative centre of northern Sarawak by 1929. In 2005 it became the tenth city in Malaysia to be granted city status, and the first that was not a state capital. It is the main gateway to Gunung Mulu National Park and other national parks of northern Sarawak.