Kuala Dipang is a
kampong
A kampong (this term is in Za'aba Spelling, ''kampung'' in both modern Malay and Indonesian) is a term for a type of village in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore and a "dock" in Cambodia. The term applies to traditional villages, especi ...
() near
Kampar in
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 ...
,
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 ...
. Kuala Dipang is also one of the places that are extraordinary sometimes, such as having the
trails
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for the
hikers to begin their hiking, and bunch of more things to do in the places of Kuala Dipang.
History
Japanese occupation of Malaya in Perak and is Memorial
This kampong was also known for having such of the memorials that happened from the previous times during
World War 2
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; whenever the
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
is invading throughout the parts of Malaysia ruled by
Britain
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* Great Britain, a large island comprising the countries of England, Scotland and Wales
* The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in Europe comprising Great Britain and the north-eas ...
from that time during
Malayan campaign
The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the , was a military campaign fought by Allies of World War II, Allied and Axis powers, Axis forces in British Malaya, Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the World War ...
, the Bridge was detonate by the
Japanese soldiers. During that time, a battle occurred in
Slim River
Slim River is a small town in Muallim District, Perak, Malaysia. It is about 100 km (driving time 45 minutes) from Kuala Lumpur. It is situated in the southern part of Perak and is 20 km north of Tanjung Malim. It is about 100 k ...
in 1942 at Perak, which known as it title as
Battle of Slim River
The Battle of Slim River occurred during the Malayan campaign in January 1942 between the Imperial Japanese Army and the British Indian Army on the west coast of Malaya.
Background
Japanese forces had invaded north-west Malaya from southern Th ...
—from around that time in the midst of the war,
Battle of Kampar
The Battle of Kampar (30 December 1941 – 2 January 1942) was an engagement of the Malayan Campaign during World War II, involving British and Indian troops from the 11th Indian Infantry Division and the Japanese 5th Division.
On 27 Dece ...
was a prelude battle against to Japanese imperial forces, which them bringing the impact to the location of Kampar around in Perak, and certainly as well as it is a prior to the Battle of Slim River. The exact conclusion were merely to told if determined to be a sudden victory to
Allies
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, even though the
Japanese tactical had won overall. The lack of reserves of the Malay Command of the 11th Division were forced to Slim River.
Incident in 2009
Another of the events which occurred in the year of 2009, a sudden bridge in Kuala Dipang at Jeram had perhaps fully collapsed to being disintegrated, and it drowned about 3 pupils and 2 were missing during the bridge suspension collapse in 2009. Students of SK Kuala Dipang had participated of a ''Program Perkhemahan Satu Malaysia'' ()—and they were about more than 269 students that had participated during the program of SK Kuala Dipang.
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Populated places in Perak