Map of Kuala Selangor District, Selangor

Tanjong Karang is a mukim in

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, Malaysia. It is loosely translated into English as the "Cape of Corals". Tanjong Karang town is divided by the Sungai Tengi at the middle but connected with a bridge. The local Chinese minority lives in the urban and seaside area, while most Malays live in rural areas and perform agricultural activities, particularly

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...

cultivation. Irwana Zana

Ban Canal

There is a large

canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flo ...

that starts from Tanjong Karang which crossed but merged using watergate to Sungai Tengi. The canal ends in the district of

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. It is often called by the locals as ''bangkenal''. Its function is to provide enough water to irrigate the rice crops; it is also used by a water supply company to provide treated water and as a place for freshwater fish farming among the villagers. In the past, this canal is involved in the forest harvesting activities. It serves as a router in sweeping the harvested

timber Lumber is wood that has been processed into dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, w ...

by drifting it over the water to the 'Headworks' where the collection works is done for land transportation. The canal was built by the Colonial Federal Government's Department of Irrigation and Drainage (Malay: ''Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran'') in 1953 as part of Tanjong Karang Irrigation Scheme project, it is a reclamation project that converted the swampland of Central Selangor to a cultivatable rice paddies by connecting Sungai Tengi to Sungai Bernam in Perak, the canal extend all the way from Tanjung Karang to Sungai Besar. There are myths from the older people who claimed there was a giant

snake Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more j ...

found during the construction of this canal. It led to the cessation of further construction work at Seri Tiram. BanCanal

Historic building

There is an old historic building left without care at Kampung Sungai Kajang. It is believed that the building was at one time a palm sugar processing plant built during the colonial period. During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, the

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. ...

was captured and used as a Japanese military base. Some effects of the ravages of battle can be seen today. Only a small portion of the structure is maintained while almost the entire plant has been destroyed, whether caused by

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

or land development. Palm Sugar Processing Plant 2 - Wong Sa Wah

Notable people

* Noh Omar *

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Appearance in ''Nur Kasih''

Tanjong Karang has been known to the public after '' Nur Kasih'' a TV3 popular serial drama in 2009, made its filming here for kampung scenes.

References

Kuala Selangor District Mukims of Selangor {{Selangor-geo-stub