Jawi

Jawi, whose article is titled Sungai Jawi, is a suburb of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of Penang. It is the seat of the Southern Seberang Perai District. As of 2020 the mukim that contains it, Mukim 11, had a population of 19,586 people, of whom about 44 percent were Chinese, 29 percent Malays and nearly 25 percent Indians. The suburb is served by the Northern Route of the North-South Expressway, which gives road access to the rest of the peninsula. The name is not the same as the Jawi language or script that is used to write Malay in Arabic letters; this entry is about the Penang place only. The population figure belongs to the mukim as a whole and not to the suburb alone.