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Ipoh

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Ipoh (ē`pō), city (1991 pop. 468,765), capital of Perak state, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula, in the Kinta River valley. A modern commercial town, it is a major tin-mining center. Nearby are rubber plantations and limestone quarries. The mine laborers and the population are mainly Chinese. The city has noted Chinese rock temples.

Ipoh

City (pop., 2000 prelim.: 566,211), West (Peninsular) Malaysia. Its name comes from a local tree, whose poisonous resin was once used by indigenous people for hunting. The modern city dates from the 1890s, when British tin-mining companies were set up. Immigrant Chinese were brought in to work the tin deposits, and their descendants now dominate the city. It is the country's mining capital.

Ipoh
a city in Malaysia, capital of Perak state: tin-mining centre. Pop.: 643 000 (2005 est.)
Ipoh 

a city in Malaysia, capital of Perak state. Population, 125,800 (1957). A transportation junction, Ipoh is the center of a major tin mining region.
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