Where is Langkawi Island location
Langkawi Island is an island located in the state of Kedah, within an archipelago of 104 islands in the Andaman Sea, 30 kilometers from the mainland coast of the northwestern part of Malaysia, with a total area of 47,848 hectares, one of the islands inhabited; Where more than 65 thousand people. Consists of flat coastal areas and limestone plains interspersed with limestone, two-thirds of which are forests and hills. The island was known for Chinese travelers, especially by the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Da Yuan, and Ming Admiral, and during the fifteenth century the island was known as the " Aceh (Pulau Lada), or Pepper Island, and during 1691 Frenchman Augustine de Boulio went to buy pepper. The island became a home for seafarers in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula. They were known as Urangut. During 1821, the Siamese army conquered the island. During the first attack, local residents decided to burn the grain reserve in the Padang region to starve and expel the Siame...