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Kepala Batas

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kepala Batas

One place 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
    Allianze University College of Medical Sciences

    Allianze University College of Medical Sciences was a private higher learning institution situated in Kepala Batas, Pulau Pinang. The college offered courses in various fields such as medicine, hospitality, tourism, sports science, and allied health sciences.

    1.4 km · non-operational Malaysian university · 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.

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Getting to Kepala Batas

Airports
Penang (PEN), 30 km · Langkawi (LGK), 119 km · Sultan Azlan Shah (IPH), 129 km
  • Langkawi → Kepala Batas
    70 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · RM21–29
  • Ipoh → Kepala Batas
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · RM32–43
  • Subang → Kepala Batas
    1571 km · quickest by air, 11h 47m · Rp3,017,670–4,651,540
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kepala Batas

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 Kepala Batas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inis next to the bus and ferry terminal, south of the town centre.
  • Get inSeats on these trains are often sold out, so book in advance either at the KTMB office in the Georgetown ferry terminal, or on-line at KTMB website or other third party booking site such as BusOnlineTicket.com or Easybook.com.
  • Get inThe much-loved Penang ferry departs regularly from the for George Town.
  • Get inThe ferry terminal is connected with the railway station and bus terminal via covered walkways.
  • Get inDirection from the train station to the ferry terminal (terminal feri) are well signposted.

From Wikivoyage: Butterworth, 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
    Penang, George Town and ButterworthMY

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    16 km
  2. 02
    LangkawiMY

    12 ways of moving, 14 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    166 km
  4. 04
    Satun and Pak BaraTH

    11 ways of moving, 18 sources

    167 km
  5. 05
    Ko LantaTH

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    282 km

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

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Next door to Kepala Batas

Kepala Batas is 10 km from Kota Kuala Muda, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.