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Perlis

Kangar

Kangar is the state capital and the largest town in , Malaysia. It has a population of 48,898 and an area of 2,619.4 ha. It is located next to the Thailand border, in the northernmost point of Peninsular Malaysia.
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  • Type: City with 285,000 residents
  • Description: state capital city of Perlis, Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Perlis”, “Poelit”, and “Polit”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium and Alwi Mosque.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Kangar, , . It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium opened in 1995, and has the capacity of 20,000.

Mosque
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The is a in Kangar, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jejawi.

Suburb
is a Mukim and a small town in , Malaysia. The mukim of has an area of 12.36 square kilometres and is administered by Kangar Municipal Council.

Kangar

Latitude
6.4389° or 6° 26′ 20″ north
Longitude
100.1945° or 100° 11′ 40″ east
Population
285,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MY KGR
Open location code
6PR2C5QV+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2610748548
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1736278
Wiki­data ID
Q921155
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kangar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانجار”
  • Asturian: “Kangar”
  • Banjar: “Kangar, Malaysia”
  • Banjar: “Kangar”
  • Belarusian: “Кангар”
  • Bengali: “কাঙ্গার”
  • Bulgarian: “Кангар”
  • Cebuano: “Kangar (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Kangar”
  • Chinese: “Kangar”
  • Chinese: “加央”
  • Czech: “Kangar”
  • Danish: “Kangar”
  • Dutch: “Kangar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانجار”
  • Esperanto: “Kangar”
  • Finnish: “Kangar”
  • French: “Kangar”
  • German: “Kangar”
  • Greek: “Κάνγκαρ”
  • Gujarati: “કાંગાર”
  • Hindi: “कंगार”
  • Indonesian: “Kangar”
  • Italian: “Kangar”
  • Japanese: “カンガー”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಗಾರ್”
  • Korean: “캉아르”
  • Latvian: “Kanara”
  • Latvian: “Kangara”
  • Lithuanian: “Kangaras”
  • Macedonian: “Кангар”
  • Malay: “Kangar”
  • Marathi: “कागारर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kangar”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kangar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangar”
  • Norwegian: “Kangar”
  • Persian: “کانگار”
  • Persian: “کنگر”
  • Polish: “Kangar”
  • Portuguese: “Kangar”
  • Russian: “Кангар”
  • Sinhala: “කාන්ගර්”
  • Spanish: “Kangar”
  • Swedish: “Kangar”
  • Tamil: “கங்கார்”
  • Telugu: “కంగార్”
  • Thai: “กางาร์”
  • Turkish: “Kangar”
  • Ukrainian: “Кангар”
  • Urdu: “کانگر”
  • Vietnamese: “Kangar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kangar”
  • Yue Chinese: “加央”

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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 “Kangar”. Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0.