Kuantan
Kuantan is a city and the state capital of Pahang, Malaysia. It is located near the mouth of the Kuantan River. Kuantan is the 12th largest city in Malaysia based on a 2020 population of 548,014 and the largest city on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 548,000 residents
- Description: state capital of Pahang, Malaysia
- Also known as: “Kuala Kuantan” and “Kuala Kuatan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Darul Makmur Stadium and Sultan Ahmad Shah Mosque.
Darul Makmur Stadium
Stadium
Darul Makmur Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. It is mostly used for football matches, with a capacity of 40,000 people.
Sultan Ahmad Shah Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Ibnu ariff, Public domain.
The Sultan Ahmad Shah Mosque is Pahang's state mosque. It is located in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.
Sultan Abu Bakar School
School
Sultan Abu Bakar School is a secondary school situated in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. It is entitled as a Premier School by the Malaysian Ministry of Education due to its excellence in academic and co-curriculum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tanjung Lumpur.
Tanjung Lumpur
Suburb
Tanjung Lumpur is a traditional fishing village located near the Kuantan river in Kuantan District, Pahang, Malaysia. It is loosely translated into English as the " Cape of Mud".
Kuantan
- Categories: city of Malaysia and locality
- Location: Kuantan, Pahang, East Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
3.8211° or 3° 49′ 16″ northLongitude
103.3386° or 103° 20′ 19″ eastPopulation
548,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
KUAOpen location code
6PM5R8CQ+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 698789558OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kuantan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوانتان”
- Armenian: “Կուանտան”
- Asturian: “Kuantan”
- Banjar: “Kuantan, Malaysia”
- Banjar: “Kuantan”
- Belarusian: “Куантан”
- Bengali: “কুয়ান্তান”
- Bulgarian: “Куантан”
- Burmese: “ကွမ်တန်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Kuantan”
- Chinese: “Kuantan”
- Chinese: “关丹”
- Chinese: “關丹”
- Czech: “Kuantan”
- Danish: “Kuantan”
- Dutch: “Kuantan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوانتان”
- Esperanto: “Kuantan”
- Finnish: “Kuantan”
- French: “Kuantan”
- Georgian: “კუანტანი”
- German: “Kuantan”
- Greek: “Κουάνταν”
- Gujarati: “કુઆંતન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kôan-tan-sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kuantan”
- Hebrew: “קואנטן”
- Hindi: “कुआंतान”
- Iban: “Kuantan”
- Indonesian: “Kuantan”
- Italian: “Kuantan”
- Japanese: “クアンタン”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ವಾಂಟನ್”
- Korean: “콴탄”
- Korean: “쿠안탄”
- Latvian: “Kuantana”
- Lithuanian: “Kuantanas”
- Macedonian: “Куантан”
- Malay: “Bandar Kuantan”
- Malay: “Kuantan”
- Marathi: “क्वांतान”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kuantan”
- Northern Frisian: “Kuantan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuantan”
- Norwegian: “Kuantan”
- Persian: “کوانتان”
- Polish: “Kuantan”
- Portuguese: “Kuantan”
- Russian: “Куантан”
- Serbian: “Куантан”
- Sinhala: “කුවන්ටන්”
- Slovenian: “Kuantan”
- Spanish: “Kuantan”
- Swedish: “Kuantan”
- Tamil: “குவந்தான்”
- Tamil: “குவாந்தான்”
- Telugu: “క్వెంటెన్”
- Thai: “กวนตัน”
- Turkish: “Kuantan”
- Ukrainian: “Куантан”
- Urdu: “کوانتان”
- Vietnamese: “Kuantan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kuantan”
- Western Panjabi: “کوانتان”
- Wu Chinese: “关丹”
- Yue Chinese: “關丹”
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