Alor Setar (English spelling)

Japanese: アロー･スター（英語表記）Alor Setar

The capital of Kedah state in the northwest of the Malaysian peninsula. It is in the center of a vast rice paddy region and is famous for its beautiful mosque. Nearly half of the city's population of 125,000 (1991) is Malay, making it one of the cities with a low ratio of Chinese to other cities in the country, but there are many Chinese shops in the center. If double rice cropping becomes widespread as a result of the success of the Muda River Basin Agricultural Development Plan, it is expected that income levels in the surrounding farming villages will rise and the city's hinterland will expand. [Ota Isamu]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

マレーシアの半島部北西，ケダー州の州都。広大な水田地帯の中心地で，美しいモスクがあることで有名。人口12万5000(1991)のほぼ半数がマレー人からなり，国内では華人人口比が低い都市の一つであるが，中心部には華人商店が軒を並べる。ムダ川流域農業開発計画の成功により米の二期作が普及すれば，周辺農村の所得水準が上昇し，市の後背地の拡大が期待されている。【太田勇】

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