Batu Pahat, also sometimes known as Bandar Penggaram or by its initials as BP, is a town and the capital of Batu Pahat District in Johor, Malaysia. It lies south-east of the royal town of Muar, south-west of Kluang, north-west of Pontian and south of Segamat, and it stands in the Simpang Kanan parish. In 2006 Batu Pahat surpassed Muar to become the second largest urban area in Johor, and by 2012 it was the 16th largest urban area in Malaysia by population. Chinese make up the majority of its people at 62 percent, followed by Malays at 36 percent and Indians at 2 percent.
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1. GeoNames: Batu Pahat, Malaysia
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population 156,236
2. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 1.8522,102.9372
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"elevation": 7.0
3. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Malaysia
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tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
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# For peninsular Malaysia see Asia/Singapore.
Batu Pahat (town) (Wikipedia)
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is a town and capital of Batu Pahat District, Johor, Malaysia
Malaysia (Wikipedia)
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Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
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