Johor
a State of the Malay Peninfrom Sumatra by the Straits of Molucca. It is an independent state, within the British sphere of influence. Formerly it of spices brought from the Moluccas en was important as the distributing center route for India and Europe. Singapore but the British succeeded in including it was formerly its capital and chief port, in the Straits Settlements which in 1867 was erected into a crown colony. Pop. about 200,000.