West Coast
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Larut, Matang & Selama District

Taiping Airport

Taiping Aerodrome is an aerodrome in , Larut, Matang and Selama, , . It is located at Jalan Muzaffar Shah formerly Creagh Road, Assam Kumbang and also called Tekah Airstrip.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Taiping (Tekah) Airport”, “Taiping (Tekah) Airstrip”, “TPG”, and “WMBI”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Taiping and Taiping Hospital.

Railway station
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The railway station is a train station located at and named after the town of , . Malaysia's first railway station was situated in and was opened in 1885 when the Taiping-Port Weld Railway Line, Malaysia's first, was opened.

Hospital
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, formerly known as Yong Wah Hospital, is a district general hospital was one of the first hospitals established in . Located at Jalan Taming Sari near the commercial town centre, it is one of the biggest hospitals in and is the second biggest in the State of .

Museum
Photo: Taipingite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a public located at the junction of Jalan Muzium and Jalan Taming Sari in , , . It is the oldest museum in Malaysia and highlights the history of the state.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aulong and Taiping.

Suburb
is a suburb of , , . This suburb has an estimated population of 5,000, with the majority being Chinese and Malays. The main town centre consists of the old and new villages.

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is a city located in , in the state of , . It is located approximately 48 km northwest of , the capital of , and 78 km southeast of , .

Town
is a town in , , . It is the biggest satellite town of . During the Malayan Emergency between 1948 and 1960, was the site of a major British/Commonwealth military base, there being a large garrison for the 28th Commonwealth Independent Infantry Brigade and also one of the three British Military Hospitals in Malaya.

Taiping Airport

Latitude
4.865° or 4° 51′ 54″ north
Longitude
100.7176° or 100° 43′ 3″ east
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Inception
1929
IATA airport code
TPG
ICAO airport code
WMBI
Open location code
6PP2VP79+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 451827144
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
7731557
Wiki­data ID
Q6588145
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tajik—“Taiping Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Taiping (tugpahanan)”
  • Cebuano: “Taiping”
  • Chinese: “太平德卡飞行场”
  • Chinese: “太平机场”
  • Chinese: “太平機場”
  • Czech: “Letiště Taiping”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Taiping”
  • Indonesian: “TPG”
  • Indonesian: “WMBI”
  • Japanese: “タイピン空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Taiping, Malaysia”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه تایپینگ”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Taiping”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи тоипинг”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Taiping Airport”. Photo: Tony Ng, CC BY-SA 3.0.