The Selangor (4,1 million inhabitants) is a state in the center of the Malayan peninsula in Malaysia. It surrounds the federal districts of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.

Geographical location

The agglomeration of Kuala Lumpur largely exceeds the administrative limits, so that the majority of the inhabitants of Selangor lives in the valley of Klang (urban surface of KL). The residential and industrial vocation of the state is marked. The essence of the economic activity has its base there. The principal cities are Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam, Ampang (Suburban towns) and Klang (Port city, maritime outlet to 40 km in the West of KL).

The capital city is Shah Alam, a satellite new city of Kuala Lumpur, created in the Seventies. The royal city is Klang, always in the agglomeration of Kuala Lumpur.

Nickname : Selangor Darul Ehsan

History

The Nagarakertagama , a poem epic writes in 1365 in the kingdom java are born from Majapahit, mentions Klang among some hundred " regions tributaires" kingdom. Actually, the territory controlled by Majapahit did not extend that on part of the east and center of Java. " regions tributaires" were in fact of the counters forming a sales network whose Majapahit was the center. Majapahit sent to it dignitaries of which the role was to make sure that these counters were not devoted to a private trade which would escape the kingdom.

The royal house of Selangor goes down from the sovereigns of Riau to Sumatra. Those were of Bugis originating in Luwu in the south of Célèbes. Prince de Riau conquered Selangor and fur established by the sultan of Perak in 1766.

The discovery in XVIe century of tin layers attracted many Chinese come to work in the mines. The conflicts between Malayan immigrants bugis and Chinese on the one hand and natives on the other hand were frequent. They served as a pretext for an English intervention and the detachment of a resident in 1874.

In the years 1850, Rajah Abdullah, of the royal family of Selangor, opens the valley Klang to the tin prospectors, who settle with the junction ( kuala in Malayan) of Klang and Gombak, which quickly becomes muddy ( lumpur ) because of their activity. The economic success of Kuala Lumpur lead the English to raise it with the row of capital of Selangor in 1880.

During the formation of the " Malayan States fédérés" by the English in 1896, Kuala Lumpur became the capital, and remained it after independence, while continuing to be the capital of Selangor. The creation of the federal territory in 1974 involved the scission of Selangor and the creation of a new administrative capital on the site of Alam Shah. In the years 1990, the same scenario occurred with Putrajaya, raised with the row of territory federal and removed in Selangor.

List districts

• Klang
• Petaling - Site of the airport of Subang Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport
• Sepang - Site of the International airport of Kuala Lumpur
• Kuala Selangor
• Sabak Bernam
• Hulu Langat
• Kuala Langat
• Hulu Selangor
• Gombak

External bonds

• institutional Site

• http://www.pjnet.com.my/

States of Malaysia

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