The Sedili Besar River () is a river in
Kota Tinggi District
Kota Tinggi District is a district in the Malaysian state of Johor. It is the largest district in the state with an area of . The population was 222,382 in 2020. The principal town is Kota Tinggi.
Geography
The district has an area of 3,482&n ...
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Johor
Johor, also spelled Johore,'' is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. It borders with Pahang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the north. Johor has maritime borders with Singapore ...
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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 ...
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Name
The word ''besar'' means large. At the southern end of
Teluk Mahkota Teluk Mahkota (also known by its former name Jason's Bay or JB) is a bay and tourism attraction in Sedili, Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia.
It faces the South China Sea and has a width of approximately 12 km. The bay is situated about 2 ...
bay is a smaller river known as Sungai Sedili Kechil. The word ''kechil'' means small in
Malay language
Malay ( , ; , Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language spoken primarily by Malays (ethnic group), Malays in several islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula on the mainland Asia. The lang ...
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Geology
The
river mouth
A river mouth is where a river flows into a larger body of water, such as another river, a lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a sea, or an ocean. At the river mouth, sediments are often deposited due to the slowing of the current, reducing the carryin ...
is situated at the northern end of
Teluk Mahkota Teluk Mahkota (also known by its former name Jason's Bay or JB) is a bay and tourism attraction in Sedili, Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia.
It faces the South China Sea and has a width of approximately 12 km. The bay is situated about 2 ...
bay, and empties into the
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan island, Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luz ...
. The river has a total
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
area of 271 km
2.
Bridges
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Haji Mohd Lazim Bridge
See also
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Geography of Malaysia
The geography of Malaysia includes both the physical and the human geography of Malaysia, a Southeast Asian country made up of two major landmasses separated by water—Peninsular Malaysia to the west and East Malaysia to the east—and numer ...
References
Kota Tinggi District
Rivers of Johor
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