Val d'Or

Val d'Or is a residential neighbourhood within the city of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of Penang. The mainly agricultural area lies between Simpang Ampat to the north and Sungai Bakap to the south, in the South Seberang Perai District. Jalan Valdor is the main thoroughfare, and its southern end joins Federal Route 1. The name is French for valley of gold, from a sugar cane estate set up in the mid-19th century by Frenchmen, and the Chinese planter Kee Lye Huat, who landed in 1852, is credited as the founder of the town. It has a Chinese primary school, SJKC Valdor, and a high school, SMK Valdor.