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Petaling Jaya

city in Malaysia
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Summary

Petaling Jaya is a city of Malaysia[1]. It draws 1,424 Wikipedia views per month (city of malaysia category, ranking #6 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Petaling District[3]
  • Country: Malaysia[4]
  • Instance of: big city[5]
  • Shares border with: Sungai Buloh[6]
  • Twinned administrative body: Bandung[7]
  • Postal code: 47400[8]
  • Commons category: Petaling Jaya[9]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+08:00[10]
  • Local dialing code: 03[11]
  • Inception: 1954[12]
  • Official website: http://www.mbpj.gov.my[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Petaling Jaya[14]
  • Population: 638,516[15]
  • Official name: Петалинг-Джая[16]
  • Short name: PJ[17]
  • Area: 97.2 km²[18]

Why It Matters

Petaling Jaya has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Malaysia Malaysia University of Science & Technology SEGi University and Colleges Sunway University Universiti Tun Abdul Razak

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . kerjasama.bandung.go.id. Retrieved . kerjasama.bandung.go.id. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Petaling District
    Official website → http://www.mbpj.gov.my
    Inception → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 3.10726, 'lon': 101.60671}
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48043|batch #48043]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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