Batu Niah

Batu Niah is a small town in Miri Division, Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, at about 3 degrees 48 minutes north and 113 degrees 45 minutes east. Its name is Malay for Niah Cave, and it is the nearest town to the Niah Caves inside Niah National Park, which lie about 3 kilometres away. That position makes Batu Niah the usual gateway for visitors heading to the caves. The town is about an hour and three quarters from Miri by road and about two hours, roughly 120 kilometres, from Bintulu, so it sits on the coastal corridor between those two larger Sarawak centres. The English Wikipedia article gives the number of people living in the town as about 1859.