Karak
Karak is a small town in Bentong District, Pahang, Malaysia. Located at the foothills of Malaysia's Titiwangsa Mountain Range, it is well known as a rest town along the Federal Route 2 from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan and lends its name to the Karak Highway, or the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway linking it to the country's capital of Kuala Lumpur.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 9,360 residents
- Description: town in Malaysia
- Also known as: “Karak, Pahang”
Karak
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bentong, Pahang, East Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
3.41355° or 3° 24′ 49″ northLongitude
102.03482° or 102° 2′ 5″ eastPopulation
9,360Elevation
118 metres (387 feet)Open location code
6PM4C27M+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 254073749OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1735011Wikidata ID
Q6368052
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tamil—“Karak” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “加叻”
- Dutch: “Karak”
- Irish: “Karak”
- Malay: “Bandar Karak”
- Malay: “Karak, Pahang”
- Malay: “Karak”
- Malay: “کارق”
- Tamil: “காராக்”
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