Malaysia Geography and Population
According to Ebizdir.net, the territory of Malaysia was almost depopulated until almost the end of the last century, when along the southwestern bank of the peninsula the English sovereignty, which in 1867 had transformed its possessions of Penang, Malacca and Singapore into colonies of the Crown, exercised only on narrow coastal and island strips, the so-called Establishments of the Strait. Starting from 1874 the various local sultanates entered the English sphere of influence, first Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang,…