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The Titiwangsa during golden hour as viewed from the rural town of Ulu Yam, Selangor.. The Titiwangsa Mountains (Malay: Banjaran Titiwangsa; Jawi: بنجرن تيتيوڠسا , pronounced [ˈband͡ʒaˈran titiwaŋˈsa]), also known as Banjaran Besar (lit. 'main range') by locals, is the chain of mountains that forms the backbone of the Malay Peninsula.
Banjaras were historically pastoralists, traders, breeders, and transporters of goods in the inland regions of India, for which they used boats, carts, camels, oxen, donkeys, and sometimes the relatively scarce horse, hence controlling a large section of trade and economy.
The Crocker Mountains (Malay: Banjaran Crocker) form a range that separates the West Coast and Interior divisions of Sabah, Malaysia. At an average height of 1,800 metres (5,906 ft), it is the highest mountain range in the state. It is named after a 19th century British administrator of North Borneo, William Maunder Crocker. [2] [3] [4]
Crocker Range National Park (Malay: Taman Negara Banjaran Crocker) was established in 1984, although the area had previously been under protection as a forest reserve.It covers the north-south Crocker Range, of 1200-1800 metre mountains in Sabah, Malaysia.
The Pantai Timur Range (Malay: Banjaran Pantai Timur; Jawi: بنجارن ڤنتاي تيمور), also known as the Terengganu Highlands (Malay: Tanah Tinggi Terengganu; Jawi: تانه تيڠڬي ترڠڬانو), is a mountain range situated in the eastern seaboard of Peninsular Malaysia. [1]
The Keledang Range (Malay: Banjaran Keledang; Jawi: بنجرن كليدڠ), alternatively spelled as Kledang, is a 38-kilometre-long (24 mi), northeast–southwest oriented mountain range running between Kinta and Kuala Kangsar Districts in the state of Perak, Malaysia.
The Nakawan rises behind the Malaysia-Thai border checkpoint near Wang Kelian. The Nakawan seen from Timah Tasoh. The Nakawan Range (Malay: Banjaran Nakawan; Jawi: بنجارن نكاون) is a karstic hill range – part of the Tenasserim Hills – straddling northeast–southwest along the border between the Malaysian state of Perlis and the southern Thai province of Satun for approximately ...
The Tenasserim Hills are part of a long granite mountain ridge that is older than the Himalayas. [6] Further south from the 16th parallel, the Shan Hills break up into narrow steep-sided ranges, the Dawna Range in the west and, parallel to it at the southern end, the peninsular Tenasserim Mountains that extend southwards along the Kra Isthmus.