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Taiping , city (1991 pop. 186,791), Perak, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula. Once the leading tin-mining center of Malaya, it has been supplanted by the Kinta Valley. The city is picturesquely situated at the foot of Bukit Maxwell (formerly Maxwell's Hill; alt. c.3,400 ft/1,040 m), a noted hill station and holiday resort.

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Taiping, China, Malaysia Malaysia: founded in the 1840s as a Chinese tin‐mining settlement called Larut and then Kelian Pauh, it was given the name ‘(Town of) Everlasting, or Great, Peace’ in 1874 from the Chinese tài ‘peace’ and píng ‘peaceful’ to commemorate the end of the Larut war and attempt to shake off its reputation for violence.

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