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Batu Gajah (population 133,422) is the seat of Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. It is administered by the Batu Gajah District Council ( Malay : Majlis Daerah Batu Gajah ), formerly known as Kinta West District Council ( Malay : Majlis Daerah Kinta Barat ).
Ipoh City Council, based in Ipoh, the state capital of Perak. Mainly in mukim Hulu Kinta. Batu Gajah District Council, based in the town of Batu Gajah. Mainly in mukim Sungai Terap, Belanja, Tanjung Tualang and Sungai Raia. The district and land officer is also divided into Ipoh and Batu Gajah, and the Kinta District Office is centered at Batu ...
Batu Gajah is a federal constituency in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1959.. The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Since 1987, the area had been used for vegetable plantation. In 2002, Perak Chief Minister Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali suggested the establishment of the Perak State Herb Park. Since then, various plants have been planted at the park. The park was officially opened on 18 June 2009 by Perak Sultan Azlan Shah. [1]
The oldest human skeleton found in Malaysia was at Gua Gunung Runtuh in the state of Perak in Peninsular Malaysia. The cave was his final resting place situated in Bukit Kepala Gajah or Elephant's Head Hill in the Lenggong Valley of Ulu Perak. The skeleton was a male with a height of approximately 157 cm, estimated to have been in his 50s.
Ipoh (/ ˈ iː p oʊ /, Malay pronunciation:) is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Perak.Located by 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. [2]
A number of multinational amalgamated and tin mining companies operated and controlled the mining area in Tanjung Tualang in the mid 1900s such as – Lower Perak Tin Dredging – Southern Kinta Consolidated – Southern Malayan Tin Dredging – Austral Amalgamated Tin – Osborne & Chapple – Pernas Chartered Management – Malaysian Mining Corporation.
Pasir Salak is a mukim and historical riverside town in Perak Tengah District, Perak, Malaysia, about 45 minutes from the state capital, Ipoh.. The British colonial official J.W.W. Birch, who had been sent to take up the position of the first British Resident in Perak, was assassinated at Pasir Salak as the result of a conspiracy involving the local chiefs Dato Maharaja Lela and Sepuntum.