Labuan Town

Victoria Bandar Labuan
The financial park in Victoria.
Victoria Bandar Labuan Location in Borneo
Coordinates: 5°17′N 115°14′E / 5.283°N 115.233°E / 5.283; 115.233Coordinates: 5°17′N 115°14′E / 5.283°N 115.233°E / 5.283; 115.233
Country	Malaysia
Federal Territories	Labuan
Formed during NBCC	1946
Time zone	MST (UTC+8)
Postcode	87xxx
Area code(s)	087

Victoria (Malaysian pronunciation: [vikˈtɔriˈa]) or Victoria Town (Malay: Bandar Victoria) is the capital of the Federal Territory of Labuan in Malaysia, an island group off the north coast of Borneo. It is located in the southeast corner of Labuan and its Malay name, "Bandar Labuan" is more commonly used by the locals than Victoria. The town is an urban district within the wider city limits of Victoria which includes Labuan Port, a sheltered deep-water harbour which is an important trans-shipment point for Brunei Darussalam, northern Sarawak and western Sabah.

Since the 15th century, the town area including other parts of Labuan were under the Bruneian Empire. Its history dates back to the time when the island was ceded by Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II to the British.Rodney Mundy, a British naval officer, later visited the island under the name of Queen Victoria. The island was then occupied by Japan from December 1941 until June 1945 and governed as part of the Northern Borneo military unit by the Japanese 37th Army. During the Battle of Labuan it was liberated by the 9th Division of Australian Imperial Force on 10 June 1945 and placed under a British Military Administration until 15 July 1946, when it was incorporated into North Borneo Crown Colony. During this time, the Crown Colony government re-established much of the infrastructure that had been destroyed during the war. The island later became part of the state of Sabah and Malaysia in 1963 before the state government of Sabah ceded the island to the federal government in 1984. It was declared an international offshore financial centre and free trade zone in 1990 to assist the development of Victoria.