Local time
Thu, 11:19 PM GMT+8Asia/Kuala_LumpurCity
George Town
5.41° N, 100.33° E
- Population
- 2,500,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 1 of 31
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 31 cities of Malaysia in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Malaysia, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1786
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 4 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Penang
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- George III of Great Britain
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for George Town, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in George Town have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
