1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
Compare this sourced profile of Kuantan, 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 Kuantan—548,014, 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 Pahang, Malaysia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kuantan is GeoNames ID 1735227. Its recorded administrative path is Kuantan → Pahang → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kuantan 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, Kuantan ranks 1,021 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 12; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 542. Its 548,014 population value is 0.96 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kuantan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Malaysia entries. Kuantan's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kuantan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Selayang Baru Utara at 194.132 km with 542,409 recorded people; Kuala Lumpur at 196.478 km with 1,453,975 recorded people; Petaling Jaya at 206.109 km with 807,879 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 11.977 km. Compared with Selayang Baru Utara, Kuantan's recorded population is 1.01 times as large. Against Kuantan, Selayang Baru Utara follows Gombak → Selangor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has lower 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 Kuantan's. Against Kuantan, Kuala Lumpur follows WP. Kuala Lumpur → Kuala Lumpur → Malaysia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kuantan's. Against Kuantan, Petaling Jaya follows Petaling → Selangor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kuantan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 979 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kuantan'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 1735227, the coordinate pair 3.8077 / 103.3260, country rank 12 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 7795834 at 194.132 km bind Kuantan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kuantan's reference point is 3.8077° north and 103.3260° 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. Kuantan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kuantan's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kuantan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kuantan, 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
Kuantan's closest other entries in this atlas are Selayang Baru Utara (194.132 km), Kuala Lumpur (196.478 km), Petaling Jaya (206.109 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.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.