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with Naning ; and Singapore, which is the capital, not only 
of the Colony, but, it may be said, of the whole Peninsula. 
These possessions, grouped together, go by the collective name 
of the " Straits Settlements," and now form a Crown Colony, 
containing about 1,500 square miles, and 470,000 inhabitants 
(1884). 
Protected SxATEt, 
Pcrak, between Kgdah and SeEngor, 5° lo' to 3^45' N., 
with about 90 miles coast-Hne on West side; area (includin^;^ 
all the watershed of the River P^rak), about 8,000 square 
miles; population almost exactly loo^ooo (1883). 
Si^idngor with Kiangy between P^rak and Sungei Ujong ter- 
ritory (since the 1877 boundary was fixed), 3^ 45' to 2^ 40' N., 
with a somewhat greater extent of coast-line on the West side 
than P^rak; area about 5,000 square miles ; population about 
50,000. 
Sungei Ujoug, a much smaller State, lying in the same basin, 
to the North and West of the Linggi River, and not separated 
from Selingor by any well-defined natural boundary. Area^ 
including the districts of LiUut and Sungei Rdya^ which now lie 
within its boundary (since 1877), about 500 square miles. 
Population about 14,000. 
Of all the Malay States, the most important at the piescnt 
time are probably these three Protected States on the West 
coast, which comprise about 13,000 out of the 35,000 square 
miles in the British section of the Peninsula. Since they have- 
been brought under the influence of the Colonial administration, 
they have become most prosperous, and have now a population 
of about 13 to the square mile ; that of the rest of the Penin- 
sula, apart from the Colony, being scarcely 8 to the mile. 
