Bayan Lepas

Bayan Lepas بيان لڤس 峇六拜
Town
Bayan Lepas Location in Peninsular Malaysia
Coordinates: 5°25′00″N 100°19′00″E / 5.41667°N 100.31667°E / 5.41667; 100.31667
Country	Malaysia
State	Penang
District	Southwest Penang Island
Founded	1956
Municipality established	1976
City Status	2015
Government
• Local Government	Penang Island City Council (MBPP)
• Penang Island City Mayor	Dato' Patahiyah binti Ismail
• Bayan Baru Member of Parliament	Sim Tze Tzin (PKR)
• Bayan Lepas State Assemblyman	Nordin bin Ahmad (UMNO)
Area
• Town	151.7 km2 (58.59 sq mi)
Elevation	4 m (13.1 ft)
Population (2007)
• Town	141,000(38th)
• Density	1,447/km2 (3,748/sq mi)
• Metro	1,225,501
	(metro pop is a 2000 est)
Time zone	MST (UTC+8)
• Summer (DST)	Not observed (UTC)
International dialling code prefix	+604 (landline only)
Website	http://www.mbpp.gov.my

Bayan Lepas (In Chinese, "峇六拜", "ba ler pai" in Penang Hokkien) is the district capital of Southwest Penang Island, Penang, Malaysia being home to the Penang International Airport. It has a population of about 141,000 people. Bayan Lepas is the main industrial hub of Penang, being home to the Free Industrial Zone, where factories of many multinational companies are located especially semiconductor industry. Penang International Airport is also located at Bayan Lepas. Nowadays, the Greater Bayan Lepas has built majority of the condominiums and apartments when travelling on Penang Bridges.

Penang's shopping mall, Queensbay Mall, the Bukit Jambul Complex and Giant Hypermarket are located there. Bayan Lepas is connected to Georgetown via the Bayan Lepas Expressway or known as Lim Chong Eu Expressway. There are some tourist spots including the Snake Temple, War Museum, and the Fisheries Department Aquarium. Many new condominiums, housing estates are all currently under construction in this area.

Highway North Bound

• 5 kilometres exit from Persimpangan Jawi
• 17 kilometres from Persimpangan Bandar Baharu
• 36 kilometres from Persimpangan Bukit Merah

South Bound

• 5 kilometres from Persimpangan Juru
• 10 kilometres from Persimpangan Jambatan Pulau Pinang
• 12 kilometres from Persimpangan Perai

Climate

Bayan Lepas features a tropical rainforest climate under the Köppen climate classification. Bayan Lepas has a very lengthy wet season. As is common in several regions with this climate, precipitation is seen even during the short dry season. Temperatures are relatively consistent throughout the course of the year, with average high temperatures around 32 degrees Celsius and average low temperatures around 23 degrees Celsius. Bayan Lepas sees on average roughly 2300 mm of precipitation per year.

High Tech Industrialisation

Bayan Lepas enjoys the foreign direct investment (FDI) from high technology companies. National Semiconductor, now known as Motorola is the pioneer of the MNC that set up the factory in Bayan Lepas .^[2] Then, it was followed by the "children of Fairchild" such as Intel, AMD. In 1975, additionally 5 MNC such as Osram, Hewlett Packard, now known as Agilent, Bosch, Hitachi and Clarion also followed suit. Together, these companies are locally known as the "Samurai Eight", which bring prosperity thru the 70's until now.^[3]

References

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bayan Lepas.

• Bayan Lepas Real Estate Agent

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Coordinates: 5°17′N 100°16′E / 5.283°N 100.267°E / 5.283; 100.267