Kuching

Kuching is the capital of the state of and the largest city in East Malaysia. Kuching is small enough to walk around but interesting enough to keep you there for several days, and a good base for exploring Sarawak.
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  • Type: City with 349,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Sarawak, Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Bandar Kuching”, “Bandaraya Kuching”, “City of Kuching”, “Kuching (kapital sa estado)”, “Kuching City”, “Kucing”, “Kuĉing”, “古晉縣”, “古晋县”, “古晋市”, and “猫城”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Sarawak State Museum and Borneo Cultures Museum.

Museum
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The is the oldest museum in . It was founded in 1888 and opened in 1891 in a purpose-built building in Kuching, .

Museum
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The is a museum located in Kuching, , Malaysia. It is the largest museum in Malaysia and the second largest in Southeast Asia.

Castle
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is a palace in Kuching, , , on the north bank of the Sarawak River, opposite the Kuching Waterfront. It is the official residence of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Petra Jaya.

Suburb
is a suburb of Kuching, , . This suburb was named after the sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Yahya Petra of , added by jaya, the Sanskrit word for "victory," "triumph", or "success".

Kuching

Latitude
1.5606° or 1° 33′ 38″ north
Longitude
110.3494° or 110° 20′ 58″ east
Population
349,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
KCH
UN/LOCODE
MY KCH
Open location code
6PHGH86X+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4834272899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1735634
Wiki­data ID
Q220445
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kuching” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kuching”
  • Albanian: “Kuçing”
  • Amharic: “ኩቺንግ”
  • Arabic: “كوتشينغ”
  • Arabic: “كوشينق”
  • Aragonese: “Kuching”
  • Armenian: “Կուչինգ”
  • Arpitan: “Kuching”
  • Asturian: “Kuching”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuching”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuçinq”
  • Banjar: “Kuching, Sarawak”
  • Banjar: “Kuching”
  • Basque: “Kuching”
  • Bavarian: “Kuching”
  • Belarusian: “Кучынг”
  • Bengali: “কুচিং”
  • Bosnian: “Kuching”
  • Breton: “Kuching”
  • Bulgarian: “Кучинг”
  • Burmese: “ကူချင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kuching”
  • Cebuano: “Kuching (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Kuching”
  • Central Bikol: “Kuching”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوچینگ”
  • Chinese: “古晉”
  • Chinese: “古晋”
  • Corsican: “Kuching”
  • Croatian: “Kuching”
  • Czech: “Kuching”
  • Danish: “Kuching”
  • Dutch: “Kuching”
  • Esperanto: “Kuching”
  • Estonian: “Kuching”
  • Finnish: “Kuching”
  • French: “Kuching”
  • Friulian: “Kuching”
  • Galician: “Kuching”
  • Georgian: “კუჩინგი”
  • Georgian: “კუჩინი”
  • German: “Kuching”
  • Greek: “Κούτσινγκ”
  • Gujarati: “કૂચીંગ”
  • Hausa: “Kuching”
  • Hebrew: “קוצ’ינג”
  • Hebrew: “קוצינג”
  • Hindi: “कुचिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Kuching”
  • Iban: “Kuching”
  • Icelandic: “Kuching”
  • Ido: “Kuching”
  • Indonesian: “Kuching”
  • Interlingua: “Kuching”
  • Interlingue: “Kuching”
  • Irish: “Kuching”
  • Italian: “Kuching”
  • Japanese: “クチン”
  • Javanese: “Kuching”
  • Jèrriais: “Kuching”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kuching”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಚಿಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кучинг”
  • Kirghiz: “Кучинг”
  • Kongo: “Kuching”
  • Korean: “쿠칭”
  • Latvian: “Kučina”
  • Latvian: “Kučinga”
  • Ligurian: “Kuching”
  • Limburgan: “Kuching”
  • Lithuanian: “Kučingas”
  • Low German: “Kuching”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kuching”
  • Macedonian: “Кучинг”
  • Malagasy: “Kuching”
  • Malay: “Kuching”
  • Malayalam: “കുച്ചിങ്ങ്”
  • Maori: “Kuching”
  • Marathi: “कुचिंग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kuching”
  • Minangkabau: “Kuching”
  • Mongolian: “Кучин”
  • Neapolitan: “Kuching”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kuching”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuching”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuching”
  • Norwegian: “Kuching”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kuching”
  • Oromo: “Kuching”
  • Ossetian: “Кучинг”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਚਿੰਗ”
  • Persian: “کوچینگ”
  • Picard: “Kuching”
  • Piemontese: “Kuching”
  • Polish: “Kuching”
  • Portuguese: “Kuching”
  • Pushto: “کوتشينج”
  • Romanian: “Kuching”
  • Romansh: “Kuching”
  • Russian: “Кучинг”
  • Sardinian: “Kuching”
  • Scots: “Kuching”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kuching”
  • Serbian: “Kuching”
  • Serbian: “Кучинг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuching”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းၵူႇၶျိၼ်း”
  • Sicilian: “Kuching”
  • Sinhala: “කුචින්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Kuching”
  • Slovenian: “Kuching”
  • Somali: “Kuching”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوچینق”
  • Spanish: “Kuching”
  • Swahili: “Kuching”
  • Swedish: “Kuching”
  • Swiss German: “Kuching”
  • Tagalog: “Kuching”
  • Tajik: “Кучинг”
  • Tamil: “குசிங்”
  • Tamil: “கூச்சிங்”
  • Tatar: “Kuching”
  • Telugu: “కూచింగ్”
  • Thai: “กูจิง”
  • Thai: “กูชิง”
  • Turkish: “Kuching”
  • Turkmen: “Kuçing”
  • Ukrainian: “Кучинг”
  • Ukrainian: “Кучинґ”
  • Ukrainian: “Кучінг”
  • Urdu: “کوچینگ”
  • Uzbek: “Kuching”
  • Venetian: “Kuching”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuching”
  • Vlaams: “Kuching”
  • Volapük: “Kuching”
  • Walloon: “Kuching”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kuching”
  • Welsh: “Kuching”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوچینگ”
  • Wolof: “Kuching”
  • Wu Chinese: “古晋”
  • Yue Chinese: “古晉”
  • Zulu: “Kuching”
  • “Kuching”

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