Keningau

Keningau is the capital of the Keningau District in the Interior Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It is the fifth-largest town in Sabah as well as one of the oldest, and it lies between Tambunan and Tenom. The major ethnic groups are the Dusuns, Muruts and Lundayehs. The name is derived from the locally abundant Javanese cinnamon tree, known locally as koningau, whose bark the British North Borneo Company collected to sell as a spice. During the British colonial era Keningau was one of the most important administrative centres in British North Borneo, and the Japanese also used it as one of their main administrative centres during the occupation of North Borneo in World War II.