Kuantan

[kwahn-tahn]

noun

1. a seaport in and the capital of Pahang state, in Malaysia, on the SE Malay Peninsula.

Example Sentences

The 5th-grader from a village in Kuantan Singingi Regency was making his debut at the national Pacu Jalur boat race.

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“Additionally, we observed extremely limited messaging in Malay, and Dragonbridge accounts promoted photos of demonstrations against Lynas that took place in Malaysia sometime between 2012 and 2019, due to controversy surrounding the disposal of radioactive waste produced by its rare earths processing facility in the city of Kuantan.”

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KUANTAN, Malaysia — Some skin, eggs and tissue samples are all that remain of Malaysia's last rhino, Iman, who died last November after years of failed breeding attempts.

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Dr Azly Rahman, a US-based, Malaysian anthropologist described an episode of mass hysteria in 1976 at an elite boarding school he attended in neighbouring Kuantan city.

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KUANTAN, MALAYSIA—Companies and governments around the world are anxiously watching the fate of a sprawling industrial facility 30 kilometers north of this city on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia.

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