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Selangor's geographical position in the centre of Peninsular Malaysia contributed to the state's rapid development as Malaysia's transportation and industrial hub, creating jobs and attracting migrants from other states and from other Asian countries, especially Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and China ...
Malaysian Chinese. Ethnic Chinese in traditional samfu attire with umbrella, c. 1945. Chinese Malaysians, also commonly called locally as Malaysian Chinese, are Malaysian citizens of Han Chinese ethnicity. They form the second-largest ethnic group, after the Malay majority, and are 22.8% of the Malaysian population.
Malaysia is a modern concept, created in the second half of the 20th century. However, contemporary Malaysia regards the entire history of Malaya and Borneo, spanning thousands of years back to prehistoric times, as its history. The first evidence for archaic human occupation can be dated to at least 1.83 million years ago, while the earliest ...
www .mpklang .gov .my. Klang or Kelang, officially Royal City of Klang ( Malay: Bandaraya Diraja Klang ), is a city, royal city and former capital of the state of Selangor, Malaysia. It is located within the Klang District. It was the civil capital of Selangor in an earlier era prior to the emergence of Kuala Lumpur and the current capital ...
The world's largest pewter tankard, recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, was made by Royal Selangor in 1985 to commemorate its centenary. Displayed at Royal Selangor headquarters in Setapak, it is 1.987 metres tall, weighs 1,557 kg and has a capacity of 2,796 litres. The giant tankard has travelled around the world to places such as ...
At 3°9′38″N 101°44′9″E, Ampang Hilir is situated to the east of the Kuala Lumpur city centre, bordering KLCC (Petronas Towers) and Bukit Bintang to the west, Dato' Keramat to the north, Ampang Jaya and Pandan Jaya ( Selangor) to the east, and Maluri to the south. Ampang has several large lakes due to its tin mining history.
New village. New villages ( Chinese: 新村; pinyin: Xīncūn; Malay: Kampung baru ), also known as Chinese new villages ( Chinese: 华人新村; pinyin: Huárén Xīncūn, Malay: Kampung baru Cina ), were internment camps created during the waning days of British rule in Malaysia. These camps were originally created as part of the Briggs Plan ...
The Klang War or Selangor Civil War was a series of conflicts that lasted from 1867 to 1874 in the Malay state of Selangor in the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Malaysia ). It was initially fought between Raja Abdullah, the administrator of the Klang Valley, and Raja Mahdi.