1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
Compare this sourced profile of Pelentong, 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 Pelentong—583,640, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pelentong is GeoNames ID 1732747. Its recorded administrative path is Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Pelentong 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 2024-04-20; 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, Pelentong ranks 955 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 8; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 515. Its 583,640 population value is 1.02 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 0.58 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pelentong sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Malaysia population cohort. Pelentong'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.
Pelentong's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kampung Larkin Lama at 9.22 km with 500,000 recorded people; Johor Bahru at 9.844 km with 858,118 recorded people; Pasir Gudang at 11.387 km with 534,659 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 2.167 km. Compared with Kampung Larkin Lama, Pelentong's recorded population is 1.17 times as large. Against Pelentong, Kampung Larkin Lama follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Pelentong's. Against Pelentong, Johor Bahru follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Pelentong's. Against Pelentong, Pasir Gudang follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Pelentong's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 144 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pelentong's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 1732747, the coordinate pair 1.5243 / 103.8240, country rank 8 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 1732724 at 9.22 km bind Pelentong to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pelentong's reference point is 1.5243° north and 103.8240° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kuala_Lumpur is shared by 19 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Pelentong's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pelentong's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pelentong's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pelentong, 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
Pelentong's closest other entries in this atlas are Kampung Larkin Lama (9.22 km), Johor Bahru (9.844 km), Pasir Gudang (11.387 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-04-20; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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