Arau
Arau is the royal capital and a Mukim of Perlis, Malaysia. Arau is located 14 kilometres southeast of the Perlis state capital, Kangar. This town is home to Perlis Raja palace.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arau.
Arau
Railway station
Photo: Khairil Yusof, CC BY 2.0.
Arau railway station, officially Arau Royal railway station, is a Malaysian railway station located at and named after the town of Arau in the state of Perlis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kodiang and Pauh.
Kodiang
Town
Kodiang is a town in Kubang Pasu District, Kedah, Malaysia. It is also a boundary town with Perlis. The name kodiang originates from Thai, khao deng, which means "red hill". Kodiang is situated 5 km southeast of Arau.
Pauh
Suburb
Pauh is a state constituency in Perlis, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Perlis State Legislative Assembly. The state constituency was created in 1994.
Jejawi
Suburb
Jejawi is a Mukim and a small town in Perlis, Malaysia. The mukim of Jejawi has an area of 12.36 square kilometres and is administered by Kangar Municipal Council. Jejawi is situated 4½ km west of Arau.
Arau
- Type: Town with 1,530 residents
- Description: royal capital of Perlis state
- Categories: royal town and locality
- Location: Perlis, West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.4307° or 6° 25′ 51″ northLongitude
100.2719° or 100° 16′ 19″ eastPopulation
1,530Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
6PR2C7JC+7QOpenStreetMap ID
node 254073383OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1736286Wikidata ID
Q626526
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Thai—“Arau” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Arau”
- Chinese: “亚娄”
- Chinese: “亞婁”
- Dutch: “Arau”
- Esperanto: “Arau”
- French: “Arau”
- German: “Arau”
- Greek: “Αράου”
- Hebrew: “אראו”
- Iban: “Arau”
- Indonesian: “Arau”
- Italian: “Arau”
- Japanese: “アラウ”
- Latvian: “Arau”
- Malay: “Arau”
- Malay: “Bandar Arau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arau”
- Norwegian: “Arau”
- Portuguese: “Arau (cidade)”
- Portuguese: “Arau”
- Portuguese: “Cidade Arau”
- Swedish: “Arau”
- Tamil: “ஆராவ்”
- Thai: “อาเรา”
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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 “Arau”. Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0.