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Pekan

Pekan

Pekan is a town in Pekan District, , . It is also the royal capital of the state. Its name comes from a flower, the Bunga Pekan. Pekan is also the name of the district the town is situated in, and a parliamentary constituency in its own right.
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  • Type: City with 121,000 residents
  • Description: town in Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Pekan, Pahang”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sultan Abu Bakar Museum.

Museum
Photo: Yosri, GFDL.
The is a in Pekan, Pahang, . It showcases the native people relics found in the country.

Pekan

Latitude
3.4896° or 3° 29′ 22″ north
Longitude
103.3904° or 103° 23′ 25″ east
Population
121,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
6PM5F9QR+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254074193
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1734971
Wiki­data ID
Q3235637
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pekan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pekan”
  • Arabic: “بكان”
  • Arabic: “فيكان”
  • Aragonese: “Pekan”
  • Arpitan: “Pekan”
  • Asturian: “Pekan”
  • Bambara: “Pekan”
  • Basque: “Pekan”
  • Bavarian: “Pekan”
  • Breton: “Pekan”
  • Cajun French: “Pekan”
  • Catalan: “Pekan”
  • Cebuano: “Pekan”
  • Chinese: “北干”
  • Chinese: “北根”
  • Corsican: “Pekan”
  • Croatian: “Pekan”
  • Czech: “Pekan”
  • Danish: “Pekan”
  • Dutch: “Pekan”
  • Esperanto: “Pekan”
  • Estonian: “Pekan”
  • Finnish: “Pekan”
  • French: “Pekan”
  • Friulian: “Pekan”
  • Galician: “Pekan”
  • German: “Pekan”
  • Hebrew: “פקן”
  • Hindi: “पेकन”
  • Hungarian: “Pekan”
  • Ido: “Pekan”
  • Indonesian: “Pekan”
  • Interlingua: “Pekan”
  • Interlingue: “Pekan”
  • Irish: “Pekan”
  • Italian: “Pekan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Pekan”
  • Japanese: “ぺカン”
  • Kabyle: “Pekan”
  • Kongo: “Pekan”
  • Latvian: “Pekan”
  • Latvian: “Pekana”
  • Ligurian: “Pekan”
  • Limburgan: “Pekan”
  • Lithuanian: “Pekan”
  • Low German: “Pekan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pekan”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Pekan”
  • Malagasy: “Pekan”
  • Malay: “Pekan, Pahang”
  • Malay: “Pekan”
  • Malay: “ڤکن”
  • Minangkabau: “Pekan”
  • Narom: “Pekan”
  • Neapolitan: “Pekan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pekan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pekan”
  • Norwegian: “Pekan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pekan”
  • Papiamento: “Pekan”
  • Persian: “پکان”
  • Picard: “Pekan”
  • Piemontese: “Pekan”
  • Polish: “Pekan”
  • Portuguese: “Pekan”
  • Prussian: “Pekan”
  • Romagnol: “Pekan”
  • Romanian: “Pekan”
  • Romansh: “Pekan”
  • Russian: “Пекан”
  • Sardinian: “Pekan”
  • Scots: “Pekan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pekan”
  • Serbian: “Pekan”
  • Sicilian: “Pekan”
  • Silesian: “Pekan”
  • Slovak: “Pekan”
  • Spanish: “Pekan”
  • Swahili: “Pekan”
  • Swedish: “Pekan”
  • Swiss German: “Pekan”
  • Tamil: “பெக்கான்”
  • Thai: “ปกัน”
  • Thai: “เปอกัน”
  • Turkish: “Pekan”
  • Urdu: “پکان، پاہانگ”
  • Urdu: “پکان”
  • Venetian: “Pekan”
  • Vietnamese: “Pekan”
  • Vlaams: “Pekan”
  • Volapük: “Pekan”
  • Walloon: “Pekan”
  • Welsh: “Pekan”
  • Wolof: “Pekan”
  • Yue Chinese: “北根”
  • Zulu: “Pekan”

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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 Wikipedia page “Pekan”. Photo: Slleong, CC0.