Kuala Rompin

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Kuala Rompin
Town and district capital
Marlin statue in Rompin
Coordinates: 2°49′N 103°29′E / 2.817°N 103.483°E
Nation	Malaysia
Explain	Pahang
District	Rompin District
Established	1888
Authorities
• Physique	Rompin District Council
• President	Zulkifli Hashim[[1]
Postcode	268xx
Phone house code	+60-09
Vehicle registration	C

Kuala Rompin or Rompin metropolis is the largest metropolis of Rompin District, southeastern Pahang, Malaysia. It’s a ways found on the South-East cruise of Peninsular Malaysia and faces the South China Sea. It’s a ways set 133 km (83 mi) south from Kuantan, the Explain Capital of Pahang. From Singapore, travellers should tear 215 km (134 mi) north by the coastal avenue by the metropolis of Johor Bahru and the metropolis of Mersing. From the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Rompin is found east and is set 3½ hours slump by avenue.

It was stated at one time on this house there is a tree named Ru, or Rhu (Casuarina equisetifolia). Ru bushes are bizarre when put next with diverse casuarina bushes which would be dwelling right here because of its cascading form. One myth tells of rhu bushes having a circumference that can fit as many as 40 other folks eating collectively. At the foundation, other folks call this space name as Rhu Ramping, and ultimately Rumpin and Rompin.

In colonial days, Kuala Rompin was a fishing village that is in general visited by traders who commute between Singapore and Kuantan. In 1952 the Pahang relate authorities made Rompin an self sustaining sub-district beneath Pekan.

An Administrative Officer was subsequently appointed, taking the post of Assistant District Officer, to be stationed within the self sustaining subdistrict; British officer, J.B. Melford was appointed to that post on 16 December 1952.

On July 31, 1976, the Sultan of Pahang, His Majesty Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al Musta’in Billah upgraded Rompin correct into a beefy district, for that reason fact separating it from Pekan and making Rompin the ninth district of Pahang. Rompin was given one vote within the parliament one decade later.

This day, Rompin District is split into 5 mukims (communes), particularly Tioman, Endau, Pontian, Keratong and Kuala Rompin metropolis.

Kuala Rompin might per chance per chance well per chance very effectively be most efficient identified as the gateway to Tioman Island. On the opposite hand, it’s no longer with out its have sights. The drinking locations of Kuala Rompin are eminent for their seafood, severely for their freshwater prawns and freshwater clam caught within the surrounding areas severely at the estuary of Sungai Rompin (Rompin River). Crabs and squids are moreover favorite.

Kuala Rompin is moreover constructing a name for itself within the game of sailfish fishing. It’s a ways extra and additional being identified as the Sailfish Capital of Asia, and hosts a yearly world-class fishing tournament, the Royal Pahang World Billfish Thunder. Kuala Rompin is truly appropriate to be surely one of the most excellent locations within the arena to get Sailfish.^[[2]

The metropolis of Kuala Rompin is positioned within the Explain electoral constituency of Tioman, which was received by YB Mohd. Johari from Barisan Nasional. Its representative to the Malaysian Parliament is Datuk Hasan Arifin, moreover from Barisan Nasional.

Kuala Rompin has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall year-spherical.