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Pahang

Pahang is the third largest state in area in and largest in Peninsular Malaysia. It is considered an East Coast state and has a long coast, including island, the largest on the East Coast, but it also goes inland quite a ways and includes much…
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The are in Pahang, Peninsular . It is approximately 85 km from or about 200 km from . The retreat has a diverse population of more than 43,000 people.

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is a city and the state capital of Pahang, Malaysia. It is located near the mouth of the River. 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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is in Pahang, which is famous for having Malaysia's only legal casinos, as well as theme parks, shopping malls and hotels.

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Explore places such as Taman Negara and Pekan.

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is Malay for "national park" and is the largest national park in Peninsular Malaysia. It is famous for its tropical rainforest, birds, and insects.

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is a town in District, Pahang, . It is also the royal capital of the state. Its name comes from a flower, the Bunga . is also the name of the district the town is situated in, and a parliamentary constituency in its own right.

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is a municipality in central Pahang, Malaysia. Located about 130 kilometres from along the Kuantan–Kuala Lumpur trunk road, is the second largest urban area in Pahang after , the state capital city.

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is a city of about 87,000 and district in Pahang, on the . It is a popular starting point for excursions into .

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is a village town in Pahang, . It is approximately 45 km and about an hour’s drive from Kuala Lumpur. It is a popular holiday and recreational destination for city folks, and foreign visitors especially backpackers.

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, is one of the oldest towns in the State of Pahang. It began as a gold mining town in the early 19th century. Remnants of its colonial past are evident in the old buildings around the town.

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is a popular beach resort area in Pahang. It is located about 30 km north of on Peninsular Malaysia's East Coast. village is a typical small lazy East Coast fishing village although backpacker-tourism now is the major income earner here.

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is a small town deep in the district of Lipis in the jungles of Pahang. It was the capital of Pahang for most of the colonial period before the capital was moved to in 1955.

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Fraser's Hill is a colonial-era hill station in Pahang state, Peninsular Malaysia. Fraser's Hill has a wonderfully weird mixed-up character, where locals eat curries off banana leaves in an English cottage next to a golf course while the call to prayer sounds from the mosque.

is a small town in Bentong District, Pahang, . This small town is located along Kuala Lumpur–Karak Expressway, notable for luring visitors coming from . The town features a French-themed village, .

Pahang

Latitude of center
3.6169° or 3° 37′ 1″ north
Longitude of center
102.5995° or 102° 35′ 58″ east
Population
1,680,000
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Abbreviation
“PHG”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3222282161
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1733042
Wiki­data ID
Q191346
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Pahang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pahang”
  • Achinese: “Phang”
  • Arabic: “باهانغ”
  • Arabic: “بهنق”
  • Arabic: “فهغ دار المعمور”
  • Arabic: “فهغ”
  • Asturian: “Pahang”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pahanq”
  • Banjar: “Pahang, Malaysia”
  • Banjar: “Pahang”
  • Basque: “Pahang”
  • Belarusian: “Паханг”
  • Bengali: “পাহাং”
  • Betawi: “Pahang”
  • Bulgarian: “Паханг”
  • Catalan: “Pahang”
  • Cebuano: “Pahang”
  • Chinese: “Pahang”
  • Chinese: “彭亨”
  • Chinese: “彭亨州”
  • Czech: “Pahang”
  • Danish: “Pahang”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pahang”
  • Dutch: “Pahang”
  • Esperanto: “Pahango”
  • Estonian: “Pahangi osariik”
  • Finnish: “Pahang”
  • French: “Pahang”
  • Georgian: “პაჰანგი”
  • German: “MY-06”
  • German: “Pahang”
  • Greek: “Παχάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “પહાંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pahang”
  • Hebrew: “פהנג”
  • Hindi: “पाहांग”
  • Hungarian: “Pahang”
  • Iban: “Pahang”
  • Indonesian: “Kesultanan Pahang”
  • Indonesian: “Pahang”
  • Inupiaq: “Pahang”
  • Italian: “Pahang”
  • Japanese: “パハン州”
  • Japanese: “彭亨”
  • Kannada: “ಪಹಾಂಗ್”
  • Komering: “Pahang”
  • Korean: “파항주”
  • Latvian: “Pahana”
  • Literary Chinese: “彭亨”
  • Lithuanian: “Pahang”
  • Lithuanian: “Pahangas”
  • Macedonian: “Паханг”
  • Malay: “Negeri Pahang”
  • Malay: “Pahang Darul Makmur”
  • Malay: “Pahang”
  • Malay: “ڤهڠ”
  • Malayalam: “പഹാങ്ങ്”
  • Marathi: “पहांग”
  • Marathi: “पाहांग”
  • Mazanderani: “پاهانگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Pahang”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pahang”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pahang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pahang”
  • Norwegian: “Pahang”
  • Persian: “پاهانگ”
  • Persian: “پاهنگ”
  • Piemontese: “Pahang”
  • Polish: “Pahang”
  • Portuguese: “Pahang”
  • Portuguese: “Pão”
  • Quechua: “Pahang suyu”
  • Russian: “Паханг”
  • Serbian: “Паханг”
  • Sinhala: “පහන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “MY-06”
  • Slovenian: “Pahang”
  • Spanish: “Pahang”
  • Swedish: “Pahang”
  • Tamil: “பகாங்”
  • Tamil: “பஹாங்”
  • Tatar: “Паханг штаты”
  • Telugu: “పహాంగ్”
  • Thai: “ปะหัง”
  • Thai: “ปาหัง”
  • Thai: “ปาฮัง”
  • Thai: “รัฐปะหัง”
  • Thai: “รัฐปาหัง”
  • Turkish: “Pahang”
  • Ukrainian: “Паханг”
  • Urdu: “پاہانگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Pahang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pahang”
  • Western Panjabi: “پاہانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “彭亨”
  • Yue Chinese: “彭亨”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pahang”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.