Huidige Tijd in Beaufort, Maleisië — Asia/Kuching.

Beaufort or in Sabahan colloquial spelling "Bopot" is the capital of the Beaufort District in the Interior Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It was named after former British Governor Leicester Paul Beaufort. Its population was estimated to be around 12,742 in 2010. It is about 90 kilometres south of Kota Kinabalu and about 167 kilometres north of Long Pasia. It has shophouses built high above the roads to avoid the periodic floods of the Padas River. The population of Beaufort is composed mainly of Bisaya, Brunei Malays, Kadazan-Dusuns, Lun Bawang/Lun Dayeh, Muruts and Chinese. Bisaya are the majority ethnic, and the population is scattered around the town. Like other towns in Sabah such as Kota Kinabalu city, Tuaran, Papar, Tawau, Kudat and Tenom, Beaufort was one of the major initial Hakka population centres in Sabah and still has a large Hakka minority.

Distance-wise, Beaufort is closest to Singapore (~1,396 km), Tokyo (~4,166 km), Sydney (~5,736 km); São Paulo is the far end at roughly 17,248 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Beaufort sits inside Maleisië — the South-Eastern Asia subregion, capital Kuala Lumpur, languages English, Malay, currency MYR (RM).

Around Beaufort, the nearest mapped reference cities are Kuala Penyu (30 km), Sipitang (37 km), Keningau (46 km), Papar (48 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for Asia/Kuching planning.

Closest curated airport references from Beaufort: KUL Sepang (1583 km).

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