Kedah
Kedah is a state in the northern part of the West Coast of Malaysia. It borders Thailand to the northeast and east, the state of Perlis to the north, the state of Penang to the southwest, and the state of Perak to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Langkawi and Alor Setar.
Langkawi
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Langkawi, officially known as "Langkawi, the Jewel of Kedah" is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, 30 km off the mainland coast of Kedah.
Alor Setar
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Alor Setar is the state capital of Kedah, on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Some claim that it is the state capital on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia that is richest in Malay culture.
Kulim
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Kulim is a city of 272,000 people in Kedah. Bordering Penang in the west, Kulim is an ever-developing district where the Kulim Hi-Tech Park, the first high technology industrial park in Malaysia that was established in 1996, is situated.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kuala Kedah and Bukit Kayu Hitam.
Kuala Kedah
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Kuala Kedah, on the coast about 12 km from Alor Setar, is a busy fishing village with great seafood. Besides Kuala Perlis, it is a major port to the island of Langkawi.
Bukit Kayu Hitam
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Bukit Kayu Hitam is a town in Kedah, Malaysia. It is the main road crossing between Malaysia and Thailand and most long distance buses between the two countries use this checkpoint.
Lunas
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Lunas is a sub-district of Kulim District which lies in Kedah, Malaysia. Lunas also serves as a state constituency in the Parliament Constituency of Padang Serai, Kedah.
Kedah
- Type: state of Malaysia with 1,790,000 residents
- Description: state of Malaysia
- Also known as: “Kedah Darul Aman”, “Queda”, and “State of Kedah”
- Neighbors: Penang, Perak, Perlis, and Thailand
- Location: West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kedah” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Kedah”
- Arabic: “قدح دار الأمان”
- Arabic: “قدح دارالأمان”
- Arabic: “قدح”
- Arabic: “كيدا”
- Arabic: “كيداه”
- Asturian: “Kedah”
- Azerbaijani: “Kedah”
- Banjar: “Kadah, Malaysia”
- Banjar: “Kedah”
- Bashkir: “Кедах”
- Basque: “Kedah”
- Belarusian: “Кедах”
- Bengali: “কেদাহ”
- Betawi: “Kedah”
- Buginese: “Kedah”
- Bulgarian: “Кедах”
- Catalan: “Kalah”
- Catalan: “Kedah”
- Cebuano: “Kedah (estado sa Malasya)”
- Cebuano: “Kedah”
- Chinese: “Kedah”
- Chinese: “吉打”
- Chinese: “吉打州”
- Chinese: “吉打达鲁阿曼足球俱乐部”
- Czech: “Darul Aman”
- Czech: “Kedah”
- Danish: “Kedah”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kedah”
- Dutch: “Kedah”
- Esperanto: “Kedaho”
- Estonian: “Kedah”
- Estonian: “Kedahi osariik”
- Finnish: “Kedah”
- French: “Kedah”
- Galician: “Kedah”
- Georgian: “კედაჰი”
- German: “Kedah”
- German: “MY-02”
- Greek: “Κεντάχ”
- Gujarati: “કેડાહ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kedah”
- Hausa: “Kedah”
- Hebrew: “קדה”
- Hindi: “केडा”
- Hindi: “केडाह”
- Hindi: “केदाह”
- Hungarian: “Kedah”
- Iban: “Kedah”
- Indonesian: “Kedah”
- Inupiaq: “Kedah”
- Italian: “Kedah”
- Japanese: “クダ州”
- Japanese: “ケダ州”
- Javanese: “Kedah”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Kedah”
- Kannada: “ಕಟಾಹ”
- Komering: “Kedah”
- Korean: “케다 주”
- Korean: “케다”
- Korean: “크다주”
- Latvian: “Kedaha”
- Lithuanian: “Kedah”
- Lithuanian: “Kedahas”
- Macedonian: “Кедах”
- Malay: “Kedah Darul Aman”
- Malay: “Kedah”
- Malay: “Kesultanan Kedah”
- Malay: “Negeri Kedah”
- Malay: “قدح”
- Marathi: “कदा”
- Marathi: “केदा”
- Mazanderani: “قدح”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kedah”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kedah”
- Minangkabau: “Kedah”
- Northern Frisian: “Kedah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kedah”
- Norwegian: “Kedah”
- Ossetian: “Кедах”
- Persian: “قدح”
- Persian: “کداح”
- Piemontese: “Kedah”
- Polish: “Kedah”
- Portuguese: “Kedah”
- Portuguese: “Quedá”
- Quechua: “Kedah suyu”
- Russian: “Кедах”
- Sanskrit: “कदा”
- Scots: “Kedah”
- Sinhala: “කෙඩා”
- Slovenian: “Kedah”
- Spanish: “Kedah”
- Sundanese: “Kedah”
- Swedish: “Kedah”
- Tamil: “கெடா”
- Telugu: “కెడాహ్”
- Thai: “เกอดะฮ์”
- Thai: “ไทรบุรี”
- Thai: “รัฐเกอดะฮ์”
- Thai: “รัฐไทรบุรี”
- Turkish: “Kedah”
- Ukrainian: “Кедах”
- Urdu: “قدح”
- Venetian: “Kedah”
- Vietnamese: “Kedah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kedah”
- Wu Chinese: “吉打”
- Yue Chinese: “吉打”
- “ma kipisi Kuta”
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