CHILLING IN CAMERON HIGHLANDS, PAHANG!

THE CAMERON HIGHLANDS OR TANAH TINGGI CAMERON IS A DISTRICT IN PAHANG, MALAYSIA, OCCUPYING AN AREA OF 712.18 SQUARE KILOMETRES (274.97 SQ MI). TO THE NORTH, ITS BOUNDARY TOUCHES THAT OF KELANTAN; TO THE WEST, IT SHARES PART OF ITS BORDER WITH PERAK. SITUATED AT THE NORTHWESTERN TIP OF PAHANG, CAMERON HIGHLANDS IS APPROXIMATELY 90 KILOMETRES (56 MI) EAST FROM IPOH, ROUGHLY 200 KILOMETRES (120 MI) NORTH FROM KUALA LUMPUR OR ABOUT 355 KILOMETRES (221 MI) FROM KUANTAN, THE CAPITAL OF PAHANG. IT IS THE SMALLEST MUNICIPALITY IN THE STATE.

CAMERON HIGHLANDS WERE NAMED AFTER WILLIAM CAMERON, A BRITISH EXPLORER AND GEOLOGIST WHO WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE THEN COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TO MAP OUT THE PAHANG-PERAK BORDER AREA IN 1885.

THE CLIMATE OF THE CAMERON HIGHLANDS IS ON THE BORDER BETWEEN A TROPICAL RAINFOREST CLIMATE (KÖPPEN CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION AF) AND A SUBTROPICAL HIGHLAND CLIMATE (KÖPPEN CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION CFB). ITS MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURE IS 18 °C (64 °F). DURING THE DAY, THE TEMPERATURE SELDOM RISES OVER 25 °C (77 °F); AT NIGHT, IT CAN DROP TO AS LOW AS 9 °C (48 °F) AT THE HIGHER REACHES.   Its yearly precipitation is more than 2,700 mm (110 in). The lowest temperature recorded was on Wednesday, 1 February 1978 – the temperature dropped to 7.8 °C (46.0 °F) at an altitude of 1,471.6 metres above sea level.






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