Tampin is both a town and a district in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia and is located near the Malacca-Negeri Sembilan border. The district itself covers 12,949 hectare. State motto: no State motto Capital Seremban Royal Capital Seri Menanti Yang di-Pertuan Besar Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman Chief Minister YAB Dato Seri Utama Mohamad Haji Hasan Area 6,645 km2 Population  - Est. ... Jump to: navigation, search State motto: Bersatu Teguh Capital Malacca Town Governor Tun Datuk Seri Utama Mohd. ... State motto: no State motto Capital Seremban Royal Capital Seri Menanti Yang di-Pertuan Besar Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman Chief Minister YAB Dato Seri Utama Mohamad Haji Hasan Area 6,645 km2 Population  - Est. ... A hectare (symbol ha) is a metric unit of area. ...

The district, or more correctly the state of Negeri Sembilan state - called luak in Malay - was established in 1832 and its ruler is known as Tunku Besar Tampin. Tunku Besar Tampin is one of the few persons that have the power to elect Negeri Sembilan's nominal ruler, the Yang di-Pertuan Besar. The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who are native to the Malay peninsula, southern Thailand, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ...

Tampin is well served by Malaysian transportation system. It is connected to both North-South Expressway and the West Malaysian railways system. In fact, Gemas which is part of Tampin district, is the meeting point of West Malaysia eastern and western railways lines. Furthermore, since Malacca doesn't have a railways station, people living in Malacca will have to travel to Tampin in order to get on a train. The North-South Expressway The North-South Expressway (Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan) is the longest expressway in Malaysia with the total length of 966 km running from Bukit Kayu Hitam in Kedah near the Malaysian-Thai border to Johor Bahru at southern Malaysia. ... A train stopping at a KTMB railway station in Kuala Lipis, Pahang Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) or the Malayan Railway is the main railway system in Peninsular Malaysia. ...

There was a track from Tampin to Melaka before World War II but it was dismantled by the Japanese during the war for the construction of the infamous Burmese Death Railway. Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that... Jump to: navigation, search The Bridge over the river Kwai The Death Railway (known also as Burma Railway or Burma Thai Railway) was a railway built from Thailand to Burma (now Myanmar) by the Japanese during World War II to complete the route from Bangkok to Rangoon and support the...