Penang
Penang, renowned as the Pearl of the Orient, is a state on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Geographically, the state consists of Pulau Pinang, or Penang Island, and Seberang Perai, the mainland strip facing the island, which are separated by a small stretch of the Strait of Malacca.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include George Town and Butterworth.
George Town
George Town is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang.
Butterworth
Butterworth is the main town on the mainland side of Penang state in Malaysia.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Bukit Mertajam and Air Itam.
Bukit Mertajam
Bukit Mertajam is a suburb of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of Penang.
Nibong Tebal
Nibong Tebal is a town located in Seberang Perai Selatan district of Penang, Malaysia.
Seberang Jaya
Seberang Jaya is a suburb of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of Penang.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kek Lok Si Temple and Ayer Itam War Memorial Park.
Kek Lok Si Temple
Buddhist temple
The Kek Lok Si Temple is a Buddhist temple in George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Paya Terubong and Farlim.
Paya Terubong
Suburb
Paya Terubong is a suburb of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang.
Penang
- State with about 1,740,000 residents
- …is abbreviated as “PNG”
- Description: Malaysian state
- Also known as“Penang Island”“Pinang”“PNG”“Pulau Pinang”“بولاو بينانج”“بولاو بينانق”“بينانك”
- Neighbors: Kedah
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- Location
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Latitude
5.4065° or 5° 24′ 23″ north
Longitude
100.2559° or 100° 15′ 21″ east
Open location code
6PQ2C744+J9
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Penang” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Pinang”
- Amharic: “ፐናንግ”
- Arabic: “بينانق”
- Arabic: “فولاو فينغ”
- Aragonese: “Penang”
- Armenian: “Պինանգ”
- Asturian: “Penang”
- Azerbaijani: “Pinanq”
- Balinese: “Pulo Pinang”
- Basque: “Penang”
- Belarusian: “Пінанг”
- Bengali: “পেনাং”
- Buginese: “Pulau Pinang”
- Bulgarian: “Пенанг”
- Catalan: “Illa del Príncep de Gal·les”
- Catalan: “Penang”
- Catalan: “Pulau Pinang”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Pinang (estado)”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Pinang”
- Chinese: “槟城”
- Chinese: “槟城州”
- Chinese: “槟州”
- Chinese: “槟榔屿州”
- Chinese: “檳城”
- Czech: “Penang (Malaysia)”
- Czech: “Penang”
- Danish: “Penang”
- Danish: “Pinang”
- Danish: “Pulau Penang”
- Danish: “Pulau Pinang”
- Dimli (individual language): “Penang”
- Dutch: “Penang”
- Dutch: “Pinang”
- Esperanto: “MY-07”
- Esperanto: “Penang”
- Esperanto: “Penango”
- Estonian: “Penang”
- Estonian: “Pulau Pinang”
- Estonian: “Pulau Pinangi osariik”
- Finnish: “Penang”
- Finnish: “Pulau Penang”
- French: “Penang”
- French: “Pulau Pinang”
- Georgian: “პინანგი”
- German: “MY-07”
- German: “Penang (Malaysia)”
- German: “Penang”
- Greek: “Πενάνγκ”
- Gujarati: “પેનાંગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pulau Pinang”
- Hausa: “Penang”
- Hebrew: “פננג”
- Hindi: “पिनांग”
- Hungarian: “Penang”
- Hungarian: “Pinang”
- Iban: “Pulau Pinang”
- Ido: “Penang”
- Indonesian: “Penang”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Pinang”
- Inupiaq: “Penang Islands”
- Inupiaq: “Penang”
- Italian: “Penang”
- Italian: “Pinang”
- Japanese: “プラウ・ピナン州”
- Japanese: “ペナン”
- Japanese: “ペナン州”
- Javanese: “Pulo Pinang”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Pulau Pinang”
- Kannada: “ಪೆನಾಂಗ್”
- Kazakh: “Пенанг”
- Kirghiz: “Пенанг”
- Komering: “Penang”
- Korean: “페낭 주”
- Korean: “풀라우 피낭 주”
- Korean: “피낭 주”
- Latvian: “Penana”
- Latvian: “Penanga”
- Latvian: “Pinanga”
- Latvian: “Pulaupinana”
- Lithuanian: “Penangas”
- Macedonian: “Пенанг”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Penang”
- Malay: “Negeri Pulau Pinang”
- Malay: “P. Pinang”
- Malay: “Pulau Pinang”
- Malay: “ڤولاو ڤينڠ”
- Malayalam: “പെനാംഗ്”
- Marathi: “पिनांग”
- Mazanderani: “پینانگ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Pulau Pinang”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Penang”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pulau Pinang”
- Northern Frisian: “Penang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Penang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pulau Pinang”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penang”
- Norwegian: “Penang”
- Oromo: “Penang”
- Ossetian: “Пинанг”
- Panjabi: “ਪੀਨਾਂਗ”
- Persian: “پنانگ”
- Persian: “پیننگ”
- Piemontese: “Penang”
- Polish: “Penang”
- Portuguese: “Penang”
- Portuguese: “Penão”
- Pushto: “پنانګ”
- Quechua: “Penang suyu”
- Russian: “Пенанг”
- Russian: “Пинанг”
- Russian: “Пулау-Пинанг”
- Scots: “Penang”
- Serbian: “Пенанг”
- Sinhala: “පෙනන්ග්”
- Slovenian: “Penang”
- Somali: “Penang”
- Spanish: “Isla de Penang”
- Spanish: “Penang”
- Spanish: “Pulau Pinang”
- Swahili: “Penang”
- Swedish: “Pinang”
- Tagalog: “Penang”
- Tajik: “Пенанг”
- Tamil: “பினாங்கு மாநிலம்”
- Tamil: “பினாங்கு”
- Tatar: “Пенанг штаты”
- Tatar: “Пенанг”
- Tatar: “Пинанг штаты”
- Telugu: “పెనాంగ్”
- Thai: “Penang”
- Thai: “เกาะปีนัง”
- Thai: “ปีนัง”
- Thai: “รัฐปีนัง”
- Turkish: “Penang”
- Ukrainian: “Пенанг”
- Ukrainian: “Пінанг”
- Urdu: “پینانگ”
- Uzbek: “Penang”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Penang”
- Vietnamese: “Penang”
- Vietnamese: “Pulau Pinang”
- Waray (Philippines): “Penang”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pulau Pinang”
- Western Armenian: “Փինանկ”
- Western Panjabi: “پینانگ”
- Wu Chinese: “槟城”
- Yue Chinese: “Penang”
- Yue Chinese: “Pulau Pinang”
- Yue Chinese: “بينانج”
- Yue Chinese: “庇能”
- Yue Chinese: “檳城”
- Yue Chinese: “檳島”
- Yue Chinese: “檳榔嶼”
- “ma kipisi Pinan”
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