The Lipis District is a

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located in the northwest of

Pahang {{Infobox political division , name = Pahang , official_name = Pahang Darul Makmur , native_name = , settlement_type = States and federal territories of Malaysia, State , image_skyline = , imagesize ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. The district covers an area of 5,198 km². Lipis District is bordered by

Cameron Highlands The Cameron Highlands () is a district in Pahang, Malaysia, occupying an area of . To the north, its boundary touches that of Kelantan; to the west, it shares part of its border with Perak. Situated at the northwestern tip of Pahang, Cameron Hi ...

the northwest,

Batang Padang District The Batang Padang District () is a district in Perak, Malaysia. This district is administered by a local council, namely, the Tapah District Council, based in Tapah. The major towns of Batang Padang are Bidor, Tapah and Sungkai. In August 2007 ...

Perak Perak (; Perak Malay: ''Peghok'') is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kel ...

on the west,

Jerantut District The Jerantut District (Pahang Malay: ''Jerantet'') is a district in north-eastern Pahang, Malaysia. Jerantut is home to the National Park. Being the largest district in Pahang, it bounds the northern states of Kelantan and Terengganu, in the sou ...

on the east,

Gua Musang District Gua Musang ( Kelantanese: ) is a town, district and parliamentary constituency in southern Kelantan, Malaysia. It is the largest district in Kelantan. Gua Musang is administered by the Gua Musang District Council. Gua Musang district is bordered ...

Kelantan Kelantan (; Kelantan-Pattani Malay, Kelantanese Malay: ''Klate''; ) is a state in Malaysia. The capital, Kota Bharu, includes the royal seat of Kubang Kerian. The honorific, honorific name of the state is ''Darul Naim'' ("The Blissful Abode"). ...

to the north and

Raub District Raub District is a district in Pahang, Malaysia. Located in the west of the state, the district borders Lipis District to the north, Jerantut District to the east, Temerloh District to the southeast, Bentong District to the south, and the distri ...

to its south. Lipis has 10 ''mukim'' or subdistricts, the largest being Ulu Jelai. The district capital is

Kuala Lipis Kuala Lipis (Pahang Malay: ''Kole Lepeh'') is a mukim and capital of Lipis District, Pahang, Malaysia with a population of 20,000. History Kuala Lipis was a gold-mining centre before the British Empire, British arrived in 1887. In 1898, it bec ...

. During the British colonization,

was made the state's capital city. Kuala Lipis was the administrative capital of Pahang for 57 years from 1898 until 27 August 1955, when

Kuantan Kuantan (Pahang Malay: ''Kontaeng''; Terengganu Malay: ''Kuatang/Kuantang'') is a city and the state capital of Pahang, Malaysia. It is located near the mouth of the Kuantan River. Kuantan is the Largest cities in Malaysia, 12th largest city ...

was picked as the new capital. Lipis had many types of minerals such as

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and

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, and products from the surrounding forests. Sungai Relau, near Merapoh, is an alternative entry point (there are about four entry points) into

Taman Negara Taman Negara is a national park in Peninsular Malaysia. It was established in 1938 and 1939 as the King George V National Park after Theodore Hubback lobbied the sultans of Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan to set aside a piece of land that cover ...

, Malaysia's premier national park and one of the three embarkation points to

Gunung Tahan Mount Tahan (), is the highest point in Peninsular Malaysia with an elevation of above sea level, on the border between the states of Pahang and Kelantan, with the peak lying on the Pahangite side. It is part of the Taman Negara that straddles ...

, the highest mountain in

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya and also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the list of isla ...

standing at 2,187 meters above sea level.

Demographics

Lipis is home to 74,581 people (as of 2010), with the Malay/

Bumiputra ''Bumiputera'' or ''bumiputra'' ( Jawi: , Native) is a term used in Malaysia to describe Malays, the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia, various indigenous peoples of East Malaysia, and Peranakans. The term is derived from the Sanskrit langu ...

formed the majority (85.3%), the

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with 10.5%, the

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with 4%, while the others 0.2%. There are 400 speakers of

Mintil Mintil (alternatively Batek Tanum, Tanɨm, or Mayah) is an Aslian language of Malaysia. It is considered to be a variety of the Batek language. Background In the late 1960s, Geoffrey Benjamin had come across speakers of Mintil among patients ...

, a language of the Mayah (

Orang Asli The Orang Asli are a Homogeneity and heterogeneity, heterogeneous Indigenous peoples, indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia. As of 2017, the Orang Asli accounted f ...

) people, remaining in Lipis District.Lim, Teckwyn. 2020
Ethnolinguistic Notes on the Language Endangerment Status of Mintil, an Aslian Language
''Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society'' (''JSEALS'') 13.1 (2020): i-xiv. ISSN 1836-6821. University of Hawaiʼi Press.

Federal Parliament and State Assembly Seats

Lipis district representative in the

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(Dewan Rakyat) List of Lipis district representatives in the State Legislative Assembly (Dewan Undangan Negeri) There is also another state seat, Jelai, which is governed by the Lipis District Council but is represented by the

parliamentary constituency instead.

Subdistricts

Lipis District is divided into 10

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s, which are:http://apps.water.gov.my/jpskomuniti/dokumen/LIPIS_PROFIL_May_2012.pdf * Batu Yon (115,100 Ha) * Budu (7,400 Ha) * Cheka (22,900 Ha) * Gua (7,588 Ha) * Hulu Jelai (213,500 Ha) * Kechau (68,600 Ha) *

(9,773 Ha) (Capital) * Penjom (17,200 Ha) * Tanjong Besar (13,300 Ha) * Telang (43,900 Ha)

Demographics

Federal Parliament and State Assembly Seats

Subdistricts

Demographics

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