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Sungai Petani

Sungai Petani is a town in Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia.

Sungai Petani
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The place

Sungai Petani is a town in Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia. The population of the municipal area of Sungai Petani is larger than Kedah's state capital, Alor Setar. It is located about 55 km south of Alor Setar, and 33 km northeast of George Town, the capital city of the neighbouring state of Penang.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sungai Petani

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sungai Batu Archaeological Site

    Sungai Batu is an archaeological site in Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia.

    7.2 km · archeological site in Kedah, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Asia Institute of Medical, Science and Technology

    Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology is a non-profit private university in Malaysia. It was established under the Maju Institute of Education Development, a non-profit organisation.

    8.3 km · Private research university in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sungai Petani Clock Tower

    The Sungai Petani clock tower is situated in the city of Sungai Petani, Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia.

    1.4 km · clock tower in Kuala Muda, Kedah, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sri Kunj Bihari Temple

    Sri Kunj Bihari Temple is a Hindu temple within George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. Established in 1835, it is the oldest Vaishnava temple in the state.

    7 km · Malaysian Hindu temple · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Sungai Petani

Airports
Penang (PEN), 46 km · Langkawi (LGK), 114 km · Sultan Azlan Shah (IPH), 137 km
Stations
Sungai Petani railway station, 1.4 km
  • Penang → Sungai Petani
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · RM12–16
    GuideToday
  • Langkawi → Sungai Petani
    111 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · RM35–47
    GuideToday
  • Ipoh → Sungai Petani
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · RM35–47
    GuideToday
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sungai Petani

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sungai Petani. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Penang, George Town and ButterworthMY

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    32 km
  2. 02
    LangkawiMY

    12 ways of moving, 14 sources

    110 km
  3. 03
    Hat Yai and the Songkhla border countryTH

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    151 km
  4. 04
    Satun and Pak BaraTH

    11 ways of moving, 18 sources

    157 km
  5. 05
    Ko LantaTH

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    274 km

If you know how people move in Sungai Petani – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sungai Petani

Sungai Petani is 16 km from Kota Kuala Muda, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • SemelingTown in Kuala Muda, Kedah, Malaysia6.7 km
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