Kuantan

Kuantan is a city and the state capital of , 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.
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  • City with about 608,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (70 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code KUA
  • Description: state capital of Pahang, Malaysia
  • Also known as
    “Kuala Kuantan”
    “Kuala Kuatan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Darul Makmur Stadium and Sultan Ahmad Shah Mosque.
Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium located in Kuantan, , .
School
is a secondary school situated in Kuantan, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tanjung Lumpur.
Suburb
is a traditional fishing village…
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Latitude
3.8211° or 3° 49′ 16″ north
Longitude
103.3386° or 103° 20′ 19″ east
Open location code
6PM5R8CQ+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Kuantan” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኩዋንታን”
  • Arabic: “كوانتان”
  • Aragonese: “Kuantan”
  • Armenian: “Կուանտան”
  • Asturian: “Kuantan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuantan”
  • Banjar: “Kuantan, Malaysia”
  • Banjar: “Kuantan”
  • Belarusian: “Куантан”
  • Bengali: “কুয়ান্তান”
  • Bulgarian: “Куантан”
  • Burmese: “ကွမ်တန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kuantan”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوانتان”
  • Chinese: “关丹”
  • Chinese: “關丹”
  • Czech: “Kuantan”
  • Danish: “Kuantan”
  • Dutch: “Kuantan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوانتان”
  • Esperanto: “Kuantan”
  • Estonian: “Kuantan”
  • Finnish: “Kuantan”
  • French: “Kuantan”
  • Georgian: “კუანტანი”
  • German: “Kuantan”
  • Greek: “Κουάνταν”
  • Gujarati: “કુઆંતન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kôan-tan-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kuantan”
  • Hausa: “Kuantan”
  • Hebrew: “קואנטן”
  • Hindi: “कुआंतान”
  • Iban: “Kuantan”
  • Indonesian: “Kuantan”
  • Italian: “Kuantan”
  • Japanese: “クアンタン”
  • Javanese: “Kuantan”
  • Kannada: “ಕುವಾಂತಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವಾಂಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Куантан”
  • Kirghiz: “Куантан”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Kuantan”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਆਂਤਾਨ”
  • Persian: “کوانتان”
  • Polish: “Kuantan”
  • Portuguese: “Kuantan”
  • Pushto: “کوانتان”
  • Russian: “Куантан”
  • Serbian: “Куантан”
  • Sinhala: “කුවන්ටන්”
  • Slovenian: “Kuantan”
  • Somali: “Kuantan”
  • Spanish: “Kuantan”
  • Swahili: “Kuantan”
  • Swedish: “Kuantan”
  • Tajik: “Куантан”
  • Tamil: “குவாந்தான்”
  • Tatar: “Kuantan”
  • Telugu: “క్వెంటెన్”
  • Thai: “กวนตัน”
  • Turkish: “Kuantan”
  • Ukrainian: “Куантан”
  • Urdu: “کوانتان”
  • Uzbek: “Kuantan”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuantan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kuantan”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوانتان”
  • Wu Chinese: “关丹”
  • Yue Chinese: “關丹”

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