Senai

Senai is a town and mukim in Kulai District in the Malaysian state of Johor, on the southern end of the Malay Peninsula. It lies about four kilometres south of Kulai and four kilometres north of Skudai, along the Skudai Highway, the stretch of Federal Route 1 that links Johor Bahru with Kuala Lumpur. The name is said to come from the sinai, a local tree that grew thickly in the district in the early twentieth century. Senai is the base of several large multinational electronics manufacturers and is counted as one of the flagship zones of Iskandar Malaysia, and it is the site of Senai International Airport. Its older core is a row of pre-war shophouses along a main road that a river divides into an upper and a lower street; resettlement villages from the Malayan Emergency and later low-cost housing added further neighbourhoods. The article records a population of 67,440, mostly Chinese (largely Hakka), Malay and Tamil Indian.