1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
Compare this sourced profile of Petaling Jaya, 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 Petaling Jaya—807,879, 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 in Malaysia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Petaling Jaya is GeoNames ID 1735158. Its recorded administrative path is Petaling → Selangor → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Petaling Jaya 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 2025-06-26; 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, Petaling Jaya ranks 689 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 394. Its 807,879 population value is 1.41 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 0.80 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Petaling Jaya falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Malaysia population cohort. Petaling Jaya'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.
Petaling Jaya's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kota Damansara at 6.024 km with 500,000 recorded people; Shah Alam at 8.568 km with 740,750 recorded people; Kampung Baru Subang at 9.432 km with 833,571 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.408 km. Compared with Kota Damansara, Petaling Jaya's recorded population is 1.62 times as large. Against Petaling Jaya, Kota Damansara follows Petaling → Selangor → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Petaling Jaya's. Against Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Petaling Jaya's. Against Petaling Jaya, Kampung Baru Subang follows Petaling → Selangor → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Petaling Jaya's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 76 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Petaling Jaya'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 1735158, the coordinate pair 3.1073 / 101.6067, country rank 4 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 12514556 at 6.024 km bind Petaling Jaya to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Petaling Jaya's reference point is 3.1073° north and 101.6067° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kuala_Lumpur is shared by 19 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Petaling Jaya's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Petaling Jaya's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Petaling Jaya's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Petaling Jaya, 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
Petaling Jaya's closest other entries in this atlas are Kota Damansara (6.024 km), Shah Alam (8.568 km), Kampung Baru Subang (9.432 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-26; 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.