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Kedah

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Kedah

State in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia; capital Alor Setar; area 9,400 sq km/3,628 sq mi; population (2000 est) 1,572,100. Products include rice, rubber, tapioca, tin, and tungsten. Kedah was transferred by Siam (Thailand) to Britain in 1909, and was one of the Unfederated Malay States until 1948.

It is one of the least urban Malaysian states, with 39.3% of the population classified as urban in 2000.



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Tiny Perlis and neighboring Kedah both saw UMNO stave off a strong PAS challenge in 1999, but it was shaken by the Kedah result, which saw PAS take 12 out of 36 state assembly seats and seven out of 15 parliamentary seats.
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Vandals could not break into the locked Christ the King Church in the northern state of Kedah, so had to be content with burning some furniture.
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Courtenay reiterates the now familiar argument about British colonial neglect of the rice sector, partly due to its general attitude towards the Malay peasantry, and partly due to the fact that most of the wet rice areas were in the northern Unfederated Malay States of Kedah, Perlis and Kelantan.
The Rice Sector of Peninsula Malaysia: A Rural Paradox by Jomo, K.S. / Pacific Affairs
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