Sungai Petani

Sungai Petani
Sungai Petani
City
	Flag Seal
	Nickname(s): SP
	Sungai Petani Location in Malaysia
	Coordinates: 5°39′N 100°30′E / 5.650°N 100.500°ECoordinates: 5°39′N 100°30′E / 5.650°N 100.500°E
Country	Malaysia
State	Kedah
Granted municipality status	1 July 1994
Government
• President	Abdul Rashid Othman
Population (2010)
• Total	443,458
Time zone	UTC+8 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	Not observed
Postcode	08xxx
Website	www.mpspk.gov.my

Sungai Petani (abbreviated Sg. Petani or SP; Chinese: 双溪大年; Tamil: சுங்கை பட்டாணி) is a city in Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia. Sungai Petani is Kedah's largest city and is located about 55 km south of Alor Setar, the capital of Kedah, and 33 km northeast of George Town, the capital city of the neighbouring state of Penang.^[2]^[3]

Culture[]

Bujang Valley[]

One of the candi at Bujang Valley

The Bujang Valley or Lembah Bujang, sometimes referred to as the Ancient Wonder of Kedah, is a rich historical site covering an area of about 400sq. km in Merbok (17 km from Sungai Petani), bounded by Bukit Coras (Choras Hill) and Gunung Jerai. This archaeological area was the site of an ancient Hindu-Buddhist kingdom that ruled the region from the 4th century AD. There is also an archaeological museum here which is known as The Lembah Bujang Archaeological Museum.^[4] This museum displays more than 2,500 artifacts from Malaysia's earliest civilization that have been unearthed from the surrounding excavation sites. Gold, gems, ceramics, Hindu gods and beautiful Buddha stone statues dating from the third to 14th centuries are all on display, though its main feature is Chandi Bukit Batu Pahat, a reconstructed temple built to worship the Hindu god Shiva.

People from Sungai Petani[]

Khairul Helmi Johari, Kedah captains and national football player
Bala Ganapathi William, actor, director & TV host
Baddrol Bakhtiar, national football figure plays for Kedah and national team
Syed Amin Aljeffri, entrepreneur^{[citation needed]}
Chong Wei Feng, national badminton player^[5]

Nearby[]

References[]

^ http://www.mpspk.gov.my/web/guest/population;jsessionid=0956D5C855629514252AA64B8F27ABAE^{[dead link]}
^ "Key Summary Statistics For Local Authority Areas, Malaysia 2010" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
^ "Population Distribution and Basic Demographic Characteristics, 2010" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
^ "Lembah Bujang Archaeological Museum - Department of Museums Malaysia".
^ "Wei Feng CHONG". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved March 29, 2016.

External links[]

Sungai Petani KTM Railway Station

[1] ttp://www.mpspk.gov.my/web/guest/population;jsessionid=0956D5C855629514252AA64B8F27ABAE^{[dead link]}

[stats-2] "Key Summary Statistics For Local Authority Areas, Malaysia 2010" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2012.

[taburan-3] "Population Distribution and Basic Demographic Characteristics, 2010" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2012.

[4] "Lembah Bujang Archaeological Museum - Department of Museums Malaysia".

[bwfprofile-5] "Wei Feng CHONG". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved March 29, 2016.

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Sungai Petani
City
Flag Seal
Nickname(s): SP
Sungai Petani Location in Malaysia
Coordinates: 5°39′N 100°30′E / 5.650°N 100.500°E / 5.650; 100.500Coordinates: 5°39′N 100°30′E / 5.650°N 100.500°E / 5.650; 100.500
Country	Malaysia
State	Kedah
Granted municipality status	1 July 1994
Government
• President	Abdul Rashid Othman
Population (2010)^[1]
• Total	443,458
Time zone	UTC+8 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	Not observed
Postcode	08xxx
Website	www.mpspk.gov.my