Kelantan
Americannoun
noun
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In the states of Kelantan and Perlis, rescue teams waded through knee-deep floodwaters to evacuate residents in areas where rising waters had cut off access to roads.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
In Kelantan state, cinemas have been banned since 1990 for causing "social ills", and in 2017, a man was fined for wearing a pair of shorts that exposed his knees.
From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2022
Similarly, the 11-year-old Thai girl, who lives in Kelantan with her parents, was also a school dropout from a poor family.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
Kelantan is one of Malaysia’s poorest and most conservative states.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2018
Numerous rivers reach the coast on both sides of the central watershed, many of those rising in the highlands of Pahang and Kelantan being absolutely untraced and unnamed.
From Adventures in Many Lands by F. Gillett
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