British Malaya · event 7 of 7

1939

A hundred and fifty thousand. Kuala Lumpur’s population, eighty-two years after eighty-seven men landed at the confluence. Malays are close to a minority in Malaya as a whole.

The British Malaya era

  1. 1896
  2. 1897
  3. 1909
  4. 1910
  5. 1922
  6. 1930
  7. 1939

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