Pahang
a state on the E. coast of the Malay Peninsula; area, 14,000 square miles, pop; about 85,000. By the treaty concluded between Great Britain and the Sultan of Pahang in 1888 the control of the foreign relations of that state was conveyed to the government of the Straits Settlements; and Pahang is now practically a dependency of that colony.
In 1895 it was united with the Malay Federation. Capital, Kuala Lipis.