Pekan Nanas 北干那那 | |
|---|---|
 | |
 | |
| Coordinates: 1°30′25.4″N103°26′49.0″E / 1.507056°N 103.446944°E | |
| Country | Malaysia |
| State | Johor |
| District | Pontian |
Pekan Nanas (literally meaning Pineapple Town) is a town located in Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia famous for its Pineapple plantation industry. [1] [2] It was Malaysia's largest production base for pineapple planting area. [3]
The Skudai–Pontian Highway passes through the town. The town is accessible by bus from Larkin Sentral (MyBas Johor - T50 & Maju - 96) in Johor Bahru. [8]
Pekan Nanas is part of the eponymous state constituency in Johor, Malaysia that is represented in the Johor State Legislative Assembly. Currently the state constituency was held by Tan Eng Meng from Barisan Nasional (MCA).[ citation needed ]
Johor Bahru, colloquially referred to as JB, is the capital city of the state of Johor, Malaysia and the core city of Johor Bahru District, the second-largest district in the country, by population. It is the second-largest national GDP-contributor among the major cities in Malaysia, and forms a part of Iskandar Malaysia, the nation's largest special economic zone, by investment value. The city has a population of 858,118 people within an area of 391.25 km2.
The Batu Pahat District is a district in the state of Johor, Malaysia. It lies southeast of Muar, southwest of Kluang, northwest of Pontian, south of Segamat and Tangkak District. The capital of the district is Bandar Penggaram.
Pasir Gudang is a city in Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia. The main industries are transportation and logistics, shipbuilding, petrochemicals and other heavy industries, and oil palm storage and distribution, which is located in Johor Port and Tanjung Langsat.
The Johor Bahru District is a district located in the southern part of Johor, Malaysia. The heavily suburban/suburbanizing district covers an area of 1,063.97 km2 (410.80 sq mi) and has a population of 1.71 million. The district capital is Johor Bahru City and the administrative capital is Iskandar Puteri City. The district borders Pontian District on the west, Kota Tinggi District on the east, Kulai District on the north and Straits of Johor to the south. The urban centres are divided into the cities of Johor Bahru, Iskandar Puteri and Pasir Gudang.
Skudai is a town in Johor, Malaysia. It is about 13 km northwest from Johor Bahru's central business district.
Kukup is a small fishing village in Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia. It is famous for its open-air seafood restaurants built on stilts over the water. Regularly scheduled ferries connect Kukup with Tanjung Balai in Indonesia.
Pontian District is a district located in southwest part of the Malaysian state of Johor. It borders Batu Pahat and Kluang Districts to the north and Kulai and Johor Bahru Districts to the east.
Pontian Kechil also known as Pontian Town is a town and the administrative centre of Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia.
The Rompin District is a district located in the southeastern corner of Pahang, Malaysia. Rompin is currently under the Rompin District Council.
Iskandar Malaysia, formerly known as Iskandar Development Region and South Johor Economic Region, is the main southern development corridor in Johor, Malaysia. It was established on 8 November 2006.
Johor is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. It borders with Pahang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the north. Johor has maritime borders with Singapore to the south and Indonesia to the east and west. As of 2023, the state's population is 4.09 million, making it the second most populous state in Malaysia, after Selangor. Johor Bahru is the capital city and the economic centre of the state, Kota Iskandar is the state administrative centre and Muar serves as the royal capital.
Dato' Sri Dr. Wee Jeck Seng is a Malaysian politician who is the Chairman-designate of the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tanjung Piai from March 2008 to May 2018 and again since November 2019. He served as the Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities I for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and former Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and the first term in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and former Minister Khairuddin Razali from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports in the BN administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak as well as former Ministers Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Ahmad Shabery Cheek from March 2008 to his defeat in the 2010 MCA leadership election in June 2010 and Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Pekan Nanas from March 2004 to March 2008 as well as Chairman of the Labuan Port Authority (LPA) from March 2017 to June 2018. He is a member and member of the Central Committee of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the BN coalition. He has also served as the Vice President of MCA since September 2023.
Kota Tinggi District is a district in the Malaysian state of Johor. It is the largest district in the state with an area of 3,488.7 square kilometres (1,347.0 sq mi). The population was 222,382 in 2020. The principal town is Kota Tinggi.
The Larkin Sentral is a bus terminal located in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. It has direct bus services to and from many cities and towns in Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Hat Yai in Thailand. This T-shaped terminal has three levels and about 50 bus bays.
The Figure Museum is a museum in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.
The Kota Tinggi Museum is a museum in Kota Tinggi Town, Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia. The museum is about the history of Johor Sultanate.
The Bugis Museum, formerly known as the Bugis Heritage is a museum established in 1982 dedicated to the Bugis people in Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia. It is the first Bugis museum in Malaysia and there are around 2,000 artifacts displayed inside, such as weapons, clothes, old coins, jewellery and pictures.
The Pineapple Museum is a museum dedicated to Pineapple plantation and processing industry which is located in Pekan Nanas, Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia. It was inaugurated by Johor Chief Minister Abdul Ghani Othman on 21 May 2002. Formerly under the Agricultural Department, the management of the museum was transferred to the Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board in March 2021. The museum exhibits collections, history and information on pineapple plantation industry, as well as products and tools for pineapple processing.
Kluang, formerly Keluang, is a town in Kluang District, Johor, Malaysia. Kluang was founded in 1915 as the administrative capital of central Johor by the British. It is located in the centre of the state and is within 90 minutes of all major urban areas of Johor. Kluang, combined with Batu Pahat, encompasses central Johor with a market catchment of over 700,000. Over the 20th century, Kluang's economy transitioned from rubber to palm oil and now has some of Malaysia's largest organic farms. The industrial sector has also grown significantly with multinational investment and a critical mass of tile manufacturers enabling the district to be called the 'tile capital of Malaysia'. The organic farming sector has also boosted Kluang as an ecotourism destination with key farms such as Zenxin, UK Agro and Kahang Organic Rice Farm.
Pekan Nanas is a state constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that is represented in the Johor State Legislative Assembly.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
| |||||||||||||||
| General topics |
|   | |||||||||||||
| Administrative divisions |
| ||||||||||||||
| City councils (Majlis Bandaraya) |
| ||||||||||||||
| Municipal councils (Majlis Perbandaran) |
| ||||||||||||||
| District councils (Majlis Daerah) |
| ||||||||||||||
 | This Johor location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
