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Parit Buntar
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Main page Parit Buntar is a town in Kerian District, Perak, Malaysia. It is bordering to Nibong Tebal in
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Contents Penang and Bandar Baharu in Kedah.It is also the district capital of Kerian District.
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This district is known as the Rice Bowl of Perak due to its large areas of paddy fields. Irrigation
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Contact us paddy fields. A few areas suffer from flooding in some seasons. The economic activity is fishing
Donate especially at Sungai Acheh, Bagan Tiang, Tanjung Piandang and Kuala Kurau, and commercial
businesses and industrial in the Parit Buntar City Center.
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Help This city has a tropical climate. There is a great deal of rainfall in Parit Buntar, even in the driest
Learn to edit month. This location is classified as Af by Köppen and Geiger. The temperature averages
Community portal 27.3 °C (81.1 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,304 mm (90.7 in).[2]
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Towns of Perak
2 Transportation
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Related changes 3 Climate
4 Tragedy Parit Buntar
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Permanent link 5 See also
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6 References
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7 External links Coordinates: 5°07′14″N 100°29′26″E
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Parliament Mujahid Yusof
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Download as PDF History [ edit ] Local area Majlis Daerah
government Kerian
Printable version History of Parit Buntar town name is derived from the name of a leader of Tok Buntar famous
Population (2010[1])
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people in the past where he and his followers have built trenches of Sungai Kerian to flow into • Total 26,328
the paddy fields. The ditch was originally known Parit Tok Buntar and now known as Parit
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Melayu
Buntar.
Nederlands The Big Clock (Jam Besar) in the old town was one of the landmarks Parit Buntar. The clock was inaugurated by Tunku Abdul Rahman on
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August 24, 1961 to commemorate the progress and prosperity of all the people of Parit Buntar. Parit Buntar and Bandar Baharu connected to
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the bridge that crosses Sungai Kerian.
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Transportation [ edit ]

Parit Buntar are accessible via:

North–South Expressway (Malaysia) (exit Bandar Baharu, Jawi, Penang or Alor Pongsu)

Federal Road (Jalan Ipoh-Butterworth)

KTM ETS

Penang International Airport (about 50 minutes from/to airport)

Rapid Penang

KTM Komuter Northern Sector

Climate [ edit ]

The least amount of rainfall occurs in February. The average in this month is 125 mm (4.9 in). The greatest amount of precipitation occurs in
October, with an average of 343 mm (13.5 in). The temperatures are highest on average in May, at around 27.8 °C (82.0 °F). The lowest
average temperatures in the year occur in January, when it is around 26.8 °C (80.2 °F). The variation in the precipitation between the driest and
wettest months is 218 mm (8.6 in). The variation in temperatures throughout the year is 1.0 °C.

Tragedy [ edit ]

Behind the serenity of Sungai Kerian was a ferry tragedy that took place in September 1972. It claimed about 20 lives, mostly school children
from Bandar Baharu, Kedah who crossed the river using the ferry to attend school in Parit Buntar, Perak. Since this unfortunate incident, the
ferry ceased operations and a concrete bridge was built.[3]

See also [ edit ]

Parit Buntar railway station

Universiti Sains Malaysia Engineering Campus

References [ edit ]

1. ^ "Perak: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population" . The World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved
2011-01-31.
2. ^ "Climate Parit Buntar: Temperature, Climate graph, Climate table for Parit Buntar - Climate-Data.org" . en.climate-data.org. Retrieved
2017-02-16.
3. ^ net, powered by iosc dot. "Ipoh Echo | Kerian District" . IpohEcho.com.my. Retrieved 2017-02-16.

External links [ edit ]

JPN Parit Buntar

Majlis Daerah Kerian – Local Authority

V ·T ·E State of Perak [show]

V ·T ·E Greater George Town [show]

Categories: Populated places in Perak

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