Kuala Kangsar

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It was here that the first rubber tree was planted in the then Malaya, by the English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley. This rubber tree still stands today in the compound of the Kuala Kangsar City Hall Majlis Perbandaran Kuala Kangsar.

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