Pahang : Ask Biography

Administration

Full name

Pahang

Official name

Pahang Darul Makmur

Settlement type

State

Anthem

Allah Selamatkan Sultan Kami
(Allah Save The Sultan )

Government

Capital

Kuantan

Sultan

Sultan Ahmad Shah

Menteri Besar

Adnan Yaakob (BN)

Geography

Total Area

13948.9 sq mi (36137 km2)

Demography

Total Population

1443365 (2010)

Density (pop.)

auto/km² (0/sq mi)

Human Development Index

HDI (2010)

0.705 (high) (10th)

Other information

Postal code

26xxx to 28xxx

Area code

09 (Pahang except as noted)
05 (Cameron Highlands)
03 (Genting Highlands)

Vehicle registration

Federated into FMS

1895

Japanese occupation

1942

Accession into Federation of Malaya

1948

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Pahang is the third largest state in Malaysia, after Sarawak and Sabah, occupying the huge Pahang River river basin. It is bordered to the north by Kelantan, to the west by Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, to the south by Johor and to the east by Terengganu and the South China Sea.

Its state capital is Kuantan, and the royal seat is at Pekan. Other important towns include Jerantut, Kuala Lipis, Temerloh and the hill resorts of Genting Highlands, Cameron Highlands, Bukit Tinggi and Fraser's Hill.

The Arabic honorific of Pahang is Darul Makmur ("Abode of Tranquility").

The ethnic composition is roughly 1,000,000 Malay and Bumiputra, 233,000 Chinese, 68,500 Indians, 13,700 others, and 68,000 non-citizens.