1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
Compare this sourced profile of Johor Bahru, 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 Johor Bahru—858,118, 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: city and state capital of Johor, Malaysia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Johor Bahru is GeoNames ID 1732752. Its recorded administrative path is Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Johor Bahru 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, Johor Bahru ranks 649 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 2; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 375. Its 858,118 population value is 1.50 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 0.85 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Johor Bahru falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Malaysia population cohort. Johor Bahru'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.
Johor Bahru's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kampung Larkin Lama at 4.38 km with 500,000 recorded people; Pelentong at 9.844 km with 583,640 recorded people; Mukim Pulai at 12.629 km with 505,661 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 8.249 km. Compared with Kampung Larkin Lama, Johor Bahru's recorded population is 1.72 times as large. Against Johor Bahru, Kampung Larkin Lama follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → 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 Johor Bahru's. Against Johor Bahru, Pelentong follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher 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 Johor Bahru's. Against Johor Bahru, Mukim Pulai follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → 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 Johor Bahru's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 36 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Johor Bahru's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. 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 1732752, the coordinate pair 1.4655 / 103.7578, country rank 2 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 1732724 at 4.38 km bind Johor Bahru to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Johor Bahru's reference point is 1.4655° north and 103.7578° 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. Johor Bahru's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Johor Bahru's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Johor Bahru's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Johor Bahru, 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
Johor Bahru's closest other entries in this atlas are Kampung Larkin Lama (4.38 km), Pelentong (9.844 km), Mukim Pulai (12.629 km).
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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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