Perlis
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| Capital | Kangar | |||||
| Raja | Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin | |||||
| regent | Syed Faizuddin Putra | |||||
| Supreme Minister | Azlan Man | |||||
| Important cities | Padang Besar , Kuala Perlis | |||||
| surface | 795 km² (2011) | |||||
| population | 231,541 (2010) | |||||
| Population density | 291.2 inhabitants / km² | |||||
| economy | Agriculture, fishing, wood processing | |||||
| License Plate | R. | |||||
Perlis ( Jawi :ﭬﺮليس; actually: Perlis Indera Kayangan ) is the northwesternmost and smallest state in Malaysia .
The agricultural federal state with an area roughly the size of Hamburg is one of the less developed areas in Malaysia.
Location and geography
Perlis is on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula on the Strait of Malacca . In the northwest, north and northeast it borders on the neighboring country Thailand , in the southeast and south on the Malaysian state of Kedah . It mainly consists of the coastal lowlands drained by the Perlis to the Andaman Sea. The residents grow rice and fish , and in the north of the state they also mine tin ore.
population
The majority of the over 200,000 inhabitants are Malay (78%) and Chinese (17%). The capital Kangar has around 50,000 inhabitants.
history
Perlis was originally part of Kedah , but has since been under the rule of Siam and Aceh . With the conquest of Kedah by the Siamese in 1821, the British felt threatened in neighboring Perak . In 1826 both parties signed the Burney Treaty , which secured the respective territorial claims.
Ahmad, the Sultan of Kedah, opposed this treaty for twelve years, but finally submitted to the new rulers and was allowed to continue his reign. His grandson Syed Hussain Jamalulail became Raja of the newly formed Perlis, based in Arau . His descendants still bear this title today.
In 1909 Siam was forced to surrender its southern territories to Great Britain , including Perlis, which - as part of the Unfederated Malay States - became a British protectorate . During the Second World War it was returned to Thailand by the Japanese in October 1943, but came under British rule again as part of the Malay Union after the war . In 1957 Perlis joined the Malaya Federation and has been part of Malaysia since 1963.
Web links
- Perlis website (Malay)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Yearbook Malaysia 2011: Tables. (PDF; 2.64 MB) Department of Statistics Malaysia, December 14, 2012, accessed on October 14, 2013 (Malay, English; page 2, PDF page 2).
- ↑ Statistics Yearbook Malaysia 2011: Tables. (PDF; 2.64 MB) Department of Statistics Malaysia, December 14, 2012, accessed on October 14, 2013 (Malay, English; page 18, PDF page 17).
Coordinates: 6 ° 30 ' N , 100 ° 15' E