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so many nationalities

Love it too.

This Protestant cemetery has several Chinese graves - most likely "Hakka Christian refugees of the Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864) who escaped to SE Asia when they were persecuted in retaliation for defying the Qing Dynasty rulers" - source

They also have a Catholic cemetery (90% destroyed) - guess most early Portuguese, French, as well as Asian Catholics were buried there. And Jews had their own cemetery - I visited it.

Much history in this place.

Penang was a colony formed by migrants, unlike the surrounding Asian countries. Creating a place from scratch - amazing. Would be just fantastic if we still had some... empty islands to start new places... But - online only, Hive island... :)