Kinta RiverKinta River (Malay: Sungai Kinta) is a river in Perak, Malaysia. It gets its name from the Kinta Valley, which surrounds Ipoh, the capital of Perak. Ipoh sits along this river. There are many limestone hills in the area surrounding the river, and there used to be many tinmines. The supposedly largest tin field in the world was discovered in 1876 in the Kinta Valley. The river was also well known for its wide variety of freshwater fish.
Kinta DistrictThe Kinta District is a district in Perak, Malaysia. It contains the state capital Ipoh. Kinta is the most populated district in Perak and also the seventh most populated district in Malaysia. Kinta houses Ipoh, Perak's largest city and state capital while Batu Gajah is a seat in Kinta district. HistoryKinta District was once famous for its tin, being one of the major tin producers in the 18th century.
IpohIpoh (, Malay pronunciation:) is the capital city of the Malaysianstate of Perak. Located on the Kinta River, it is nearly 200 km (120 mi) north of Kuala Lumpur and 150 km (93 mi) southeast of George Town in neighbouring Penang. As of the 2020 census, Ipoh had a population of 759,952, making it the ninth-largest city in Malaysia by population and the fourth most populous state capital, after Johor Bahru, Shah Alam and George Town.
Perak RiverThe Perak River (Malay: Sungai Perak) is the second longest river in Peninsular Malaysia after the Pahang River. A number of towns are on the banks of the river including the royal town of Kuala Kangsar. Most of the settlements in what is today Perak were situated near the river until the 19th century, when tin deposits were discovered elsewhere, most notably Ipoh.
Malaysian ChineseMalaysian Chinese or Chinese Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Chinese ethnicity. They form the second-largest ethnic group in Malaysia, after the Malay-majority, and as of 2020, constituted 23.2% of the country's citizens or close to 7 million. In addition, Malaysian Chinese make up the second-largest community of overseas Chinese in the world, following the Thai Chinese in neighbouring Thailand.
MalaysiaMalaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. A federalconstitutional monarchy, it consists of 13 states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia on Mainland Southeast Asia and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo.
Keledang RangeThe Keledang Range (Malay: Banjaran Keledang; Jawi: بنجرن كليدڠ), alternatively spelled as Kledang, is a 38-kilometre-long (24 mi), northeast–southwest oriented mountain range running between Kinta and Kuala Kangsar Districts in the state of Perak, Malaysia. It is one of the two principal mountain ranges that define the Kinta Valley, the other one being the Titiwangsa Mountains to its east.
PerakPerak (Malay pronunciation: [peraʔ]; Perak Malay: Peghok) is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's Yala and Narathiwat provinces both lie to the northeast.
Malay languageMalay (UK: mə-LAY; endonym: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi script: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian pluricentric macrolanguage native to several islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula on mainland Asia. The language is an official language of Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore, where the standardised forms are known as Standard Malay.
ConurbationA conurbation is a region consisting of a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most cases, a conurbation is a urbanised area in which transportation has developed to link areas. They create a single urban labour market or travel to work area.
Titiwangsa MountainsThe Titiwangsa Mountains (Malay: Banjaran Titiwangsa, pronounced [ˈband͡ʒaˈran titiwaŋˈsa]), also known as Banjaran Besar (lit. 'main range') by locals, is the chain of mountains that forms the backbone of the Malay Peninsula.
TinTin is a chemical element; it has the symbol Sn (from Latin stannum) and atomic number 50. A metallic-gray metal, tin is soft enough to be cut with little force, and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, a bar of tin makes a sound, the so-called "tin cry", as a result of twinning in tin crystals. Tin is a post-transition metal in group 14 of the periodic table of elements.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.