West Coast
Penang
North Seberang Perai District

Butterworth

Butterworth is the main town on the mainland side of state in . It was named after William John Butterworth, governor of the Straits Settlements from 1843-1855.
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  • Type: City with 339,000 residents
  • Description: city center of Seberang Perai, Penang, Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Bagan” and “Butterworth, Seberang Perai”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Butterworth and Penang Sentral.

Railway station
Photo: Slleong, CC0.
The railway station is a railway station located at and named after the town of , . The station is served by the KTM ETS and the KTM Komuter Northern Sector trains.

Photo: Wiki Farazi, CC0.
is an intermodal transit-oriented development in Butterworth, , . Proposed as the main transportation hub within the George Town Conurbation, the first phase of the project opened on 22 November 2018.

Bridge
Photo: *angys*, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Perai River Bridge is a dual-three lane cable stayed bridge that straddles the in Seberang Perai, , . It is part of the Butterworth Outer Ring Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Seberang Jaya and Perai.

is a suburb of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of . Located at the southern bank of the and east of proper, the area was developed in the 1970s.

Suburb
Photo: Vnonymous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb of Seberang in the Malaysian state of . It lies at the southern bank of the and borders Butterworth to the north.

Suburb
is a residential neighbourhood within the city of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of . The place is named after Kampung which is a village situated within the core of the same area.

Butterworth

Latitude
5.4082° or 5° 24′ 30″ north
Longitude
100.3697° or 100° 22′ 11″ east
Population
339,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
BWH
United Nations Location Code
MY WOT
Open location code
6PQ2C959+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 205623582
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1735076
Wiki­data ID
Q1018159
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Butterworth” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بتروورث”
  • Asturian: “Butterworth”
  • Bengali: “বাটারওর্থ”
  • Cebuano: “Butterworth”
  • Chinese: “北海”
  • Chinese: “北海槟城”
  • Chinese: “威省北海”
  • Danish: “Butterworth”
  • Dutch: “Butterworth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بتروورث”
  • Esperanto: “Butterworth”
  • Finnish: “Butterworth”
  • French: “Butterworth (Malaisie)”
  • French: “Butterworth”
  • German: “Butterworth”
  • Greek: “Μπάτεργουορθ”
  • Gujarati: “બટરવર્થ”
  • Hindi: “बटरवर्थ”
  • Icelandic: “Butterworth”
  • Indonesian: “Butterworth, Penang”
  • Indonesian: “Butterworth”
  • Interlingua: “Butterworth (Malaysia)”
  • Interlingua: “Butterworth”
  • Irish: “Butterworth”
  • Italian: “Butterworth”
  • Japanese: “バターワース”
  • Kannada: “ಬಟರ್ವರ್ತ್”
  • Korean: “버터워스”
  • Latvian: “Batervorta”
  • Lithuanian: “Bagan Džaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Batervortas”
  • Malagasy: “Butterworth (Penang)”
  • Malagasy: “Butterworth”
  • Malay: “Butterworth, Pulau Pinang”
  • Malay: “Butterworth”
  • Marathi: “बटरवर्थ, पेनॅंग”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Butterworth”
  • Persian: “باتروورت”
  • Polish: “Butterworth”
  • Russian: “Баттерворт”
  • Russian: “Баттеруэрт”
  • Sinhala: “බටර්වර්ත්”
  • Swedish: “Butterworth, Penang”
  • Swedish: “Butterworth”
  • Tamil: “கோலப்புறை”
  • Tamil: “பட்டர்வொர்த்”
  • Telugu: “బట్టర్వర్త్”
  • Thai: “บัตเตอร์เวิร์ท”
  • Thai: “บัตเตอร์เวิร์ธ”
  • Turkish: “Butterworth”
  • Ukrainian: “Баттерворт”
  • Urdu: “بٹرورتھ، پینانگ”
  • Urdu: “بوتتیروورتھ ، پینانج”
  • Vietnamese: “Butterworth, Penang”
  • Vietnamese: “Butterworth, Thành phố đảo Penang”
  • Yue Chinese: “北海”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Butterworth”. Photo: arches, CC BY-SA 3.0.