Map of Kuala Selangor District, Selangor

Ijok is a

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Kuala Selangor District The Kuala Selangor District is a district in Selangor, Malaysia. It has a total landmass of 1,194.52 square kilometres (461 sq mi) separated by Selangor River into two division, Tanjung Karang and Kuala Selangor. The district boundary is share ...

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sem ...

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. It is located along Federal route . Sited at a junction that leads to the bigger and more developed Bestari Jaya ( Batang Berjuntai), Pekan Ijok is, in a sense, a '

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town' with a main street lined with shops and small buildings on both sides.

Demographics

The Malays here are largely of Javanese stock, and claim their forefathers from

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founded the town in the early 1900s. Many are smallholders or work on their own land while some work in local shops and factories. The Chinese came to do business or to open vegetable farms and have since stayed to set up home here. Likewise, the Indians have also found home here after the earlier settlers came to work in the rubber plantations. The constituency has 12,372 voters, 52 percent of whom are ethnic Malays, with 28 percent ethnic Indians and 21 percent Chinese- the biggest percentage of Indian voters in the Malaysian state or Parliament constituency.

Education

*Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Bukit Badong *Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Ijok *Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan (C) Ijok *Sekolah Rendah Agama Bukit Badong *Sekolah Rendah Agama Ijok *Sekolah Rendah Agama Kafa Al-hilal

Events

*28 April - Ijok by-election, 2007.

References

Unhurried Ijok a transit town
The Star, April 20, 2007. Kuala Selangor District Mukims of Selangor {{Selangor-geo-stub