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Ceylon, high type, brown and mixed | 3,568,824 |
Straits Settlements, brown, mixed and Chinese | 570,000 |
Hong-Kong, Chinese and brown | 306,130 |
North Borneo, mixed brown and Sarawak | 700,000 |
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5,144,954 |
Of the various races which inhabit these Eastern dependencies the most important are the 2,000,000 Sinhalese and the 954,000 Tamil that make up the greater part of the population of Ceylon. The rest is made up of Arabs, Malays, Chinese (in the Straits Settlements and Hong-Kong), Dyaks, Eurasians and others.
 
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