1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Sungai Petani—544,851, 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: town in Kuala Muda, Kedah, Malaysia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sungai Petani is GeoNames ID 1735498. Its recorded administrative path is Kuala Muda → Kedah → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Sungai Petani 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 2025-11-03; 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, Sungai Petani ranks 1,028 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 14; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 546. Its 544,851 population value is 0.95 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sungai Petani sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Malaysia entries. Sungai Petani'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.
Sungai Petani's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kota Kuala Muda at 14.491 km with 544,984 recorded people; Ipoh at 135.328 km with 759,952 recorded people; Kota Bharu at 201.287 km with 568,900 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 186.796 km. Compared with Kota Kuala Muda, Sungai Petani's recorded population is 1.00 times as large. Against Sungai Petani, Kota Kuala Muda follows Kuala Muda → Kedah → 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 above Sungai Petani's. Against Sungai Petani, Ipoh follows Daerah Kinta → Perak → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Sungai Petani's. Against Sungai Petani, Kota Bharu follows Kota Bharu → Kelantan → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Sungai Petani's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 203 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sungai Petani'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 1735498, the coordinate pair 5.6470 / 100.4877, country rank 14 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 6847550 at 14.491 km bind Sungai Petani to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sungai Petani's reference point is 5.6470° north and 100.4877° 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. Sungai Petani's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sungai Petani's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sungai Petani's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sungai Petani, 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
Sungai Petani's closest other entries in this atlas are Kota Kuala Muda (14.491 km), Ipoh (135.328 km), Kota Bharu (201.287 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-03; 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.