1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
Compare this sourced profile of Shah Alam, 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 Shah Alam—740,750, 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 Selangor, Malaysia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shah Alam is GeoNames ID 1732903. Its recorded administrative path is Petaling → Selangor → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Shah Alam 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 2022-12-06; 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, Shah Alam ranks 744 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 6; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 422. Its 740,750 population value is 1.29 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 0.73 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shah Alam sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Malaysia population cohort. Shah Alam'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.
Shah Alam's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kampung Baru Subang at 7.22 km with 833,571 recorded people; Petaling Jaya at 8.568 km with 807,879 recorded people; Kota Damansara at 9.348 km with 500,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 2.128 km. Compared with Kampung Baru Subang, Shah Alam's recorded population is 0.89 times as large. Against Shah Alam, Kampung Baru Subang follows Petaling → Selangor → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Shah Alam's. Against Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya follows Petaling → Selangor → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Shah Alam's. Against Shah Alam, Kota Damansara follows Petaling → Selangor → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Shah Alam's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 110 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shah Alam'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 1732903, the coordinate pair 3.0851 / 101.5328, country rank 6 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 1771023 at 7.22 km bind Shah Alam to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shah Alam's reference point is 3.0851° north and 101.5328° 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. Shah Alam's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shah Alam's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shah Alam's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shah Alam, 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
Shah Alam's closest other entries in this atlas are Kampung Baru Subang (7.22 km), Petaling Jaya (8.568 km), Kota Damansara (9.348 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Shah Alam, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2022-12-06; 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.