1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
Compare this sourced profile of Ipoh, Malaysia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ipoh—759,952, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: state capital of Perak, Malaysia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ipoh is GeoNames ID 1734634. Its recorded administrative path is Daerah Kinta → Perak → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ipoh occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Ipoh ranks 726 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 5; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 412. Its 759,952 population value is 1.33 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 0.75 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Ipoh falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Malaysia population cohort. Ipoh's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ipoh's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sungai Petani at 135.328 km with 544,851 recorded people; Kota Kuala Muda at 136.696 km with 544,984 recorded people; Bukit Rahman Putra at 160.966 km with 607,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 25.638 km. Compared with Sungai Petani, Ipoh's recorded population is 1.39 times as large. Against Ipoh, Sungai Petani follows Kuala Muda → Kedah → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ipoh's. Against Ipoh, Kota Kuala Muda follows Kuala Muda → Kedah → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ipoh's. Against Ipoh, Bukit Rahman Putra follows Petaling → Selangor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ipoh's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 836 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ipoh's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1734634, the coordinate pair 4.5841 / 101.0829, country rank 5 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 1735498 at 135.328 km bind Ipoh to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ipoh's reference point is 4.5841° north and 101.0829° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kuala_Lumpur is shared by 19 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Ipoh's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ipoh's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ipoh's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ipoh, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Ipoh's closest other entries in this atlas are Sungai Petani (135.328 km), Kota Kuala Muda (136.696 km), Bukit Rahman Putra (160.966 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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