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Daerah Kuala Kangsar

Kuala Kangsar

Kuala Kangsar is the royal town of . It is the main town in the administrative district of Kuala Kangsar. It sits at the downstream of Kangsar River where it joins the Perak River.
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  • Type: City with 126,000 residents
  • Description: town in Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Bandar Diraja Kuala Kangsar”, “Kangsar”, and “Kuala Kangsa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ubudiah Mosque and Sultan Azlan Shah Gallery.

Mosque
Photo: Georg Wittberger, CC BY 2.0.
The is a small Sunni located in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, , .

Museum
Photo: Miss Darshini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a gallery in Kuala Kangsar, , .

Museum
Photo: Miss Darshini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Istana Kenangan which today houses the , was a royal residence in Kuala Kangsar in , Malaysia.

Kuala Kangsar

Latitude
4.7721° or 4° 46′ 20″ north
Longitude
100.9409° or 100° 56′ 27″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MY KAR
Open location code
6PP2QWCR+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254072894
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1734599
Wiki­data ID
Q1790832
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kuala Kangsar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Arabic: “كوالا كنغسار”
  • Arabic: “كوالا كنقسر”
  • Aragonese: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Arpitan: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Asturian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Basque: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Bavarian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Bengali: “কুয়ালা কাংসার”
  • Breton: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Catalan: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Cebuano: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Chinese: “江沙”
  • Chinese: “江沙县”
  • Chinese: “瓜拉江沙”
  • Corsican: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Croatian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Czech: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Danish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Dutch: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوالا لكانجسار”
  • Esperanto: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Estonian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Finnish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • French: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Friulian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Galician: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • German: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Greek: “Κουάλα Κανγκσάρ”
  • Gujarati: “કુઆલા કાંગસર”
  • Hindi: “कुआला कांगसार”
  • Hungarian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Icelandic: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Ido: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Indonesian: “Kuala kangsar”
  • Indonesian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Interlingua: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Interlingue: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Irish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Italian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Japanese: “クアラ・カンサル”
  • Japanese: “クアラカンサル”
  • Kannada: “ಕೌಲಾಗ್ ಕಾಂಗ್ಸರ್”
  • Kongo: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Korean: “쿠알라캉사르”
  • Korean: “쿠알르캉사르”
  • Latvian: “Kualakangsara”
  • Latvian: “Kualakansara”
  • Ligurian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Limburgan: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuala Kangsaro apskritis”
  • Lithuanian: “Kvala Kangsaras”
  • Low German: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Malagasy: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Malay: “Bandar Kuala Kangsar”
  • Malay: “Daerah Kuala Kangsar”
  • Malay: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Malay: “کوالا کڠسر”
  • Marathi: “कुला कांगसर”
  • Minangkabau: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Narom: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Neapolitan: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Norwegian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Persian: “کوالا کنگسر”
  • Picard: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Piemontese: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Polish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Portuguese: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Romanian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Romansh: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Russian: “Куала-Кангсар”
  • Sardinian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Scots: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Serbian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Sicilian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Sinhala: “ක්වාලාකැන්ග්සර්”
  • Slovak: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Slovenian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Spanish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Swahili: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Swedish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Swiss German: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Tamil: “கோலா கங்சார்”
  • Tamil: “கோலாகங்சார்”
  • Telugu: “కౌలా కాంగ్సర్”
  • Thai: “กัวลากังซาร์”
  • Turkish: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Ukrainian: “Куала-Кангсар”
  • Urdu: “کوالا کانجسار”
  • Venetian: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Vlaams: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Volapük: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Walloon: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Welsh: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Wolof: “Kuala Kangsar”
  • Zulu: “Kuala Kangsar”

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