Perlis
Perlis is the northern-most and smallest state of Malaysia. Although there are several attractions in the state, most tourists merely travel through Perlis on the way to Langkawi or Thailand.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Kangar and Arau.
Padang Besar
Padang Besar is a border town in the north of Perlis, the northern-most state in Malaysia.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Kuala Perlis and Wang Kelian.
Kuala Perlis
Kuala Perlis is a suburb of Kangar in the Malaysian state of Perlis.Wang Kelian
Wang Kelian is a village in Perlis, Malaysia located on the Malaysia-Thailand border.
Perlis
- Type: State with 293,000 residents
- Description: state of Malaysia
- Also known as: “Kerajaan Perlis”, “MY-09”, “Negeri Perlis”, “Peghelih”, “Perlis Darul Sunnah”, “Perlis Indera Kayangan”, “State of Perlis”, “பெர்லிசு”, “ปะลิส”, “เปอร์ลิส”, “페를리스 주”, “玻州”, and “玻璃州”
- Neighbors: Kedah
- Categories: state of Malaysia and locality
- Location: West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
6.4868° or 6° 29′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
100.2578° or 100° 15′ 28″ east
Population
293,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Abbreviation
“PLS”
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 Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Perlis” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Perlis”
- Amharic: “ፐርሊስ”
- Arabic: “برليس”
- Aragonese: “Perlis”
- Azerbaijani: “Perlis”
- Banjar: “Perlis”
- Banjar: “Pirlis, Malaysia”
- Basque: “Perlis”
- Belarusian: “Перліс (штат)”
- Belarusian: “Перліс”
- Bengali: “পের্লিস”
- Betawi: “Perlis”
- Buginese: “Perlis”
- Bulgarian: “Перлис”
- Catalan: “Perlis”
- Cebuano: “Perlis (estado sa Malasya)”
- Cebuano: “Perlis”
- Chinese: “玻璃市”
- Chinese: “玻璃市州”
- Czech: “Perlis”
- Danish: “Perlis”
- Dimli (individual language): “Perlis”
- Dutch: “Perlis”
- Esperanto: “Perliso”
- Estonian: “Perlise osariik”
- Finnish: “Perlis”
- French: “Perlis”
- Georgian: “პერლისი”
- German: “Perlis”
- Greek: “Περλίς”
- Greek: “Πέρλις”
- Gujarati: “પર્લીસ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Perlis”
- Hausa: “Perlis”
- Hebrew: “פרליס”
- Hindi: “पेरलिस”
- Hungarian: “Perlis”
- Iban: “Perlis”
- Indonesian: “Perlis”
- Inupiaq: “Perlis”
- Italian: “Perlis”
- Japanese: “プルリス”
- Japanese: “プルリス州”
- Javanese: “Perlis”
- Kannada: “ಪೆರ್ಲಿಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Перлис”
- Kirghiz: “Перлис”
- Korean: “프를리스주”
- Latvian: “Perlis”
- Latvian: “Perlisa”
- Lithuanian: “Perlis”
- Lithuanian: “Perlisas”
- Macedonian: “Перлис”
- Malay: “Perlis”
- Malay: “ڤرليس”
- Marathi: “पर्लिस”
- Mazanderani: “پرلیس”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Perlis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Perlis”
- Northern Frisian: “Perlis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Perlis”
- Norwegian: “Perlis”
- Oromo: “Perlis”
- Panjabi: “ਪਰਲਿਸ”
- Persian: “پرلیس”
- Piemontese: “Perlis”
- Polish: “Perlis”
- Portuguese: “Perlis”
- Pushto: “پرلیس”
- Quechua: “Perlis suyu”
- Russian: “Перлис”
- Sinhala: “පෙර්ලිස්”
- Slovenian: “Perlis”
- Somali: “Perlis”
- Spanish: “Perlis”
- Swahili: “Perlis”
- Swedish: “Perlis”
- Tajik: “Перлис”
- Tamil: “பெர்லிஸ்”
- Tatar: “Перлис”
- Telugu: “పెర్లిస్”
- Thai: “รัฐปะลิส”
- Turkish: “Perlis”
- Ukrainian: “Перліс”
- Urdu: “پرلس”
- Uzbek: “Perlis”
- Vietnamese: “Perlis”
- Waray (Philippines): “Perlis”
- West Coast Bajau: “Perlis”
- Western Panjabi: “پرلس”
- Yue Chinese: “玻璃市”
- “ma kipisi Pali”
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