Sarawak

Proper noun

Sarawak

1. A state in eastern Malaysia. Capital: Kuching.
   • In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as...1972, C. P. FitzGerald, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean", London: Barrie & Jenkins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189
2. (historical) A former country in Southeast Asia; the "Kingdom of Sarawak" from 1841 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annexation of it in 1946.