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Town and district capital in Selangor, Malaysia

Bandar Baru Selayang

Bandar Baru Selayang is the capital of Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia.

Bandar Baru Selayang
Bandar Baru Selayang · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bandar Baru Selayang is the capital of Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia. The capital moved from Rawang to Bandar Baru Selayang in 1997. The capital is named after Selayang, a town located 2 km southeast of Selayang Newtown.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bandar Baru Selayang

6 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
    Batu Caves

    Batu Caves are a series of limestone caves in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located on a 325 m –tall mogote, about 13 km north of the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.

    3.9 km · limestone hill that has a series of caves and cave temples in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Batu Caves Murugan Statue

    Batu Caves Murugan Statue, is a 42.7 metres tall statue of the Hindu god Murugan at Batu Caves in Selangor, Malaysia. It is the tallest statue in Malaysia and the second tallest Murugan statue in the world.

    3.9 km · Hindu God Statue in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Al-Amaniah Mosque

    Masjid Jamek Al-Amaniah is a mosque in Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located in Taman Amaniah, in the proximity of Batu Caves.

    3.1 km · mosque in Selangor, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Batu Dam

    Batu Dam is a dam in Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia. The dam is a water supply dam with holding capacity of 30,199 megalitre.

    4.6 km · dam in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Majlis Perbandaran Selayang Stadium

    Selayang Municipal Council Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Selayang, Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia. The stadium is owned by the Majlis Perbandaran Selayang.

    400 m · stadium in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    International Islamic College

    The International Islamic College is a private college located in Taman Batu Muda, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The college was established in 2001 as a private higher education institution and is one of the private higher education institutions in Malaysia.

    5.2 km · private college in Malaysia · 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 Bandar Baru Selayang

Airports
Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB), 18 km · Kuala Lumpur (KUL), 57 km · Sultan Azlan Shah (IPH), 159 km
Stations
Batu Caves Komuter station, 3.6 km · Kepong Sentral station, 5.9 km · Metro Prima station, 4.7 km · Jinjang station, 5 km · Kepong Baru station, 4.8 km
  • Sepang → Bandar Baru Selayang
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · RM15–20
  • Ipoh → Bandar Baru Selayang
    161 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · RM37–49
  • Penang → Bandar Baru Selayang
    285 km · quickest by road, 5h 31m · RM70–90
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bandar Baru Selayang

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 Bandar Baru Selayang. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe service stretches from Johor Bahru at the border with Singapore up to Butterworth in Penang (with a ferry connection to George Town) or Padang Besar at the border with Thailand.
  • Get inFerries operate international services from Sumatra, Indonesia and a domestic service to Pulau Ketam.
  • Get inCruise ships also call at Port Klang, usually on the way to other destinations in Asia, allowing for a day trip to Kuala Lumpur.
  • Go nextPulau Ketam (Crab Island) - at the mouth of the River Klang and its Chinese fishing villages make for an interesting day trip.
  • Go nextBird-watching, jungle trekking and other outdoor activities are also available.

From Wikivoyage: Kuala Lumpur, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SelatpanjangID

    7 ways of moving, 12 sources

    277 km
  2. 02
    Penang, George Town and ButterworthMY

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    281 km
  3. 03
    TiomanMY

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    285 km
  4. 04
    Tanjung Balai KarimunID

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    310 km
  5. 05
    Lake Toba and SamosirID

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    315 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bandar Baru Selayang

Bandar Baru Selayang is 1 km from Selayang Baru Utara, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kepongtown in northern Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia4.8 km
  • Lagonghuman settlement in Malaysia2.1 km
  • Taman JasaNeighborhood in Selangor, Malaysia2.4 km