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Dungun is a coastal district of the Malaysian state of Terengganu. Kuala Dungun is the capital of the district. Dungun is made up of eleven 'mukim', or subdistricts: Abang, Besol, Jengai, Jerangau, Kuala Dungun, Kuala Paka, Kumpal, Pasir Raja, Rasau, Sura, and Hulu Paka. Dungun used to be an iron mining town in the 1940s.
Kuala Dungun is located at the mouth of the Dungun River, which flows into the South China Sea.It is bordered by the mukims of Jerangau to the north, Pasir Raja to the east, Hulu Paka to the south, and Paka to the west.
Bandar Al-Muktafi Billah Shah (Jawi: بندرالموكتفا بيلله ش) is a new town in Dungun, Terengganu, Malaysia. It was erected in honour of the 16th Sultan of Terengganu, Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah. [1]
Dungun is a federal constituency in Dungun District, Terengganu, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1959.. The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Kemaman is a district in Terengganu, Malaysia. Kemaman District is bordered by Dungun District to the north and the state of Pahang to the south and west. It is the southern gateway to the state of Terengganu. The district administrative seat and the main economic centre of Kemaman is the town of Chukai, near the Terengganu-Pahang state border ...
Paka. Paka (Jawi: ڤاك, est. pop. (2000 census): 10,599) [1] is a coastal town facing the South China Sea in Dungun District, Terengganu, Malaysia.. Paka is now a busy town thriving on oil and gas activity near Kerteh, assisted by facilities at the petroleum-based industrial complex, completed in 1982.
In 2009, a meeting of the UNESCO's International Advisory Committee (IAC) held in Barbados, included the Inscribed Stone of Terengganu in a heritage list of Memory of the World Programme, making it the fourth heritage recognition accorded to Malaysia after the Hikayat Hang Tuah, Sejarah Melayu, and the correspondence of Sultan Abdul Hamid in 2001.
The descendants of Terengganu Malays can also be found in the Anambas Islands (part of the Riau Islands province) in Indonesia. [1] As of 2010 [update] , it is estimated that the population of Terengganuan Malays is around 1.1 million people, and they form 94% of Terengganu's population, making them the dominant ethnic group in the state.