Pekan
Pekan is a town in Pekan District, Pahang, Malaysia. 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.
- Type: City with 121,000 residents
- Description: town in Malaysia
- Also known as: “Pekan, Pahang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sultan Abu Bakar Museum.
Sultan Abu Bakar Museum
Museum
The Sultan Abu Bakar Museum is a museum in Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia. It showcases the native people relics found in the country.
Pekan
- Categories: royal town and locality
- Location: Pekan, Pahang, East Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Chinese: “碧涧”
- 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”
- 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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