Kota Samarahan

Kota Samarahan is the executive seat of the Samarahan District in Samarahan Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is placed about 30 kilometers from Kuching. The district populace turned into 157,792. Kota Samarahan is the principle education hub for Sarawak State and officially called "Town of Knowledge". The District Officer of this town is Datuk Patinggi Puan Hajah Affidatul. Kota Samarahan changed into once referred to as Muara Tuang which was at that point a small town in the area. The metropolis turned into connected to Kuching by way of a road handiest in early Nineteen Seventies. Before that, the only means of transport to the village turned into through the close by river.

Development inside the small village elevated with the construction of a 25-kilometre road linking Kota Samarahan to Kuching. Kota Samarahan is nearly a suburb of the more metropolitan place of Kuching, within the Kuching Division. It is located about 30 km south east of Kuching. The lands in Samarahan are frequently non-hilly, flat and occasional-lying. Most of the soils are peat soils which can be best for coconut, oil palm and pineapples plantation. Most of the development in the Samarahan Division is focused in Kota Samarahan. Kota Samarahan has a attention of universities and educational centers, as a consequence forming it into a primary academic hub in Sarawak.