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Baling is a major town in the northern state of Kedah in Malaysia. It is also the name of a district in which Baling town is situated. It is an hour's drive away from Betong, the southernmost town in Thailand. Image File history File links Kedah_Flag. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Bale can refer to any of the following: Places Bâle, the French name for the city of Basel The town Bale in Croatia the Bale Province, Burkina Faso in Burkina Faso the former Bale Province, Ethiopia in Ethiopia People Christian Bale, an actor Dr. Edward Turner Bale This is... Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... State motto: no State motto Capital Alor Star Royal Capital Anak Bukit Sultan Tuanku Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Chief Minister Dato Hj Mahdzir Bin Khalid Area 9,426 km2 Population  - Est year 2003 1 778 188 State anthem Allah Selamatkan Sultan Mahkota Kedah (Jawi:قدح, pop. ... Betong (Thai เบตง) is a town (thesaban mueang) in southern Thailand, near the boundary to Malaysia. ...

Baling is well known for its beautiful waterfalls including Lata Bayu, Lata Celak and Bukit Hijau. It is also known for its local fruits, especially the durian, dokong and langsat. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the fruit. ... Binomial name Lansium domesticum Corrêa Lansium domesticum is a tree native to western Malaysia and now widely grown in tropical regions for its sweet fruit, known variously as the langsat, lansa, langseh, langsep, lanzon, lanzone, lansone, or kokosan. ...

Origin of Name

The name Baling was believed to be obtained as a result of the events detailed in Hikayat Raja Bersiong (The Fanged King), a popular legend of Kedah. When the fanged king fled his palace at the Old Kedah capital in Lembah Bujang, he fled to a place named Merbau and began removing his fangs by twisting them by hand. As a result of the twisting act, Merbau was renamed as Merbau Pulas where pulas in Malay means twisting (by force). Lembah Bujang is located in Kedah, Malaysia. ... The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, parts of the coast of Borneo and even in the Netherlands[1]. It is an...

After the king had successfully removed both his fangs, he threw his fangs away to a faraway place, and the place believed as the site where the fanged king threw away his fangs was named as Baling, which means throw away in Malay.

History

Baling was also the site where the leaders of the Malay Races Liberation Army, the newly formed Malayan Government, and the British met to try to end the Malayan Emergency. Tunku Abdul Rahman, a leader of the Malayan government, implored the Communists to give up their arms peacefully by promising that no retaliatory action would be taken against them. However, the MRLA leader Chin Peng insisted that the government and the British endorse the MRLA as a legal Communist Party so that it could run in the forthcoming elections. This was denied, however, and thus no agreement was reached. SHIT This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The Malayan Emergency was an insurrection and guerrilla war of the Malay Races Liberation Army against the British and Malayan administration from 1948-1960 in what is now Malaysia. ... Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Shah (February 8, 1903–December 6, 1990) usually known as the Tunku (a princely title in Malaysia), and also called Bapa Kemerdekaan (Father of Independence) or Bapa Malaysia (Father of Malaysia), was Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya... Chin Peng (Traditional Chinese: 陳平, Simplified Chinese: 陈平, Mandarin Chén Píng) (born 1924), was born Ong Boon Hua (Mandarin: Wang Yonghua or Wang Wenhua Chinese: 王文華) in Sitiawan, and was a long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). ...

The towns that Baling has are Kuala Ketil,Parit Panjang,Tawar, Kuala Pegang,Kupang,Baling, Kg Lalang,and Kota Baling Jaya Batu 42.

One of the small town in Baling is Parit Panjang.Parit Panjang is situated at the junction of four main road.The roads are from Kuala Ketil (i.e from Kulim and Sungai Petani), from Batu Lima,(i.e from Gurun and Alor Setar),and from Baling Town via Asam Jawa and from Baling via Kuala Pegang.Parit Panjang situated 13km from Kuala Ketil and 25km from Sungai Petani.There are six villages in Parit Panjang.The villages are Kg Banggol Berangan,Kg Sungai Tembak,Kg Carok Bakap, Kg Bukit Endoi, Kg Tandop Pisang and Kg Lanai. In Kampung Pisang,Kupang, there is a religious Islamic school, Sekolah Menengah Agama Yayasan Khairiah.Yayasan Khairiah is one of the biggest religious school in Baling.Now its has about 1 700 students coming from all over Malaysia.

References

• Adam, Ramlah binti, Samuri, Abdul Hakim bin & Fadzil, Muslimin bin (2004). Sejarah Tingkatan 3. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. ISBN 983-62-8285-8.

External Links

• Maps of Baling

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