Pengerang

Pengerang is a municipality in Kota Tinggi District in the Malaysian state of Johor, established as a special local authority area on 16 January 2017 and upgraded to a municipal council on 1 January 2020. Its name first appears in the Hikayat Abdullah, a nineteenth century Malay literary work, and it began as a cluster of villages on the southeastern coast of Johor that were overseen in the 1860s by a Datuk Penggawa Timur appointed by the Johor Sultan; in 1957 it became a subdistrict of Kota Tinggi. The municipal area covers five mukims of Kota Tinggi District, namely Johor Lama, Pantai Timur, Pengerang, Sedili Kecil and Tanjung Surat. Pengerang is home to the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex, the largest petrochemical complex in Malaysia and one of the major petrochemical hubs in the world, and the municipal headquarters is at Bandar Penawar.