Federated Malay States

plural noun

a former federation of four states in British Malaya: Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, and Selangor.

First recorded in 1905–10

Rubber has been the chief cause of the decline of coffee industry in the Federated Malay States.

It is the shipping point of the Federated Malay States, where 65 per cent.

The acreage in coffee in the Federated Malay States is steadily declining.

Since 1889 the Federated Malay States have produced considerably more than half the tin of the world.

These lodes are the only mines of the kind being worked in the Federated Malay States.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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