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QUASl-IN DEPENDENT MaLAY StATES. 
JU^hii, Sri MManti or Hdlu Moar, Jtmpol, Rimbau, Johoi 
wAth JUei or inas. These five inland States, lying between 
2^ and 4^ N., formerly constituted, with Simgei Ujong (now 
protected), Klang (now part of Sel^ngor), Naning (now 
Malacca territory), and S^gdmat or Moar (now part of Johor), 
the so-called Negri Sembilan, or " Nine Countries/' governed 
by elective Penghiilus, or Chiefs, and titular Princes feudatory 
to the Sultans of MenangkAbau in Sumatra. The States are 
now bound in treaty with the Colony. They surround the 
Malacca territory, lying between Johor on the East, Pa hang 
on the North, and Sungei Ujong and Selingor on the West and 
North-west. Total area probably not more than 2,000 square 
miles ; population about 30,000. The more important at 
present are Rem ban, Sri Menanii and Johoi. 
Johor (fekar),^ southern extremity of the Peninsula, from 2*^ 
40' N. to Cape Romania ; area about 8,000 square miles ; 
population about 100,000. 
This State (which now includes Moar) has, owing to its fine 
situation, political and geographical, a unique position among 
the Malay States, Though under the independent adminis- 
tration of its own prince, now called *' Mahar^tja," its proximity 
to Singapore ensures it adequate security. Hence it possesses 
a large Chinese population, and a considerable revenue, 
Pahafig^ between Johor and Tringg^lnu, 4° 35' to 2° 40' N., 
with about 1 20 mites of coast on East side ; area approaching 
* The States below this line, like ihom of the Jfoartliem (Siamese) Divimon (p. 7) placed 
below a fiimilar line, enjoy full indepemleiice in their internal adniinifltration, tbougli un- 
tier some Treaty oonBtrainte. 
