Both Sarawak and North Borneo subsequently became a British Protectorate, and a Crown colony in 1946 until it merged with the Federation of Malaya to formed the Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963.
Both Sarawak and North Borneo subsequently became a British Protectorate, and a Crown colony in 1946. The federation became independent from the United Kingdom on 31 August 1957, and joined both North Borneo and Sarawak to form a new larger federation known as Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963.