Hora Atual em Kuala Penyu, Malásia — Asia/Kuching.

Kuala Penyu Town is the capital of the Kuala Penyu District in the Interior Division of Sabah, Malaysia. This district can be reached by road or by boat via the sea route. It is only 145 kilometres from Kota Kinabalu via the Beaufort route, and if travelling through Membakut/Pimping, the distance is now just 106 kilometres. Besides saving travel time, visitors taking the Membakut/Pimping route also have the opportunity to use the ferry service to cross Setompok Bay. Its population was estimated to be around 659 in 2010, with ethnic Dusun Tatana sub-group forming the largest single ethnic group.

Distance-wise, Kuala Penyu is closest to Singapore (~1,389 km), Tokyo (~4,153 km), Sydney (~5,765 km); São Paulo is the far end at roughly 17,255 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Kuala Penyu sits inside Malásia — the South-Eastern Asia subregion, capital Kuala Lumpur, languages English, Malay, currency MYR (RM).

Around Kuala Penyu, the nearest mapped reference cities are Beaufort (30 km), Papar (41 km), Bandar Labuan (50 km), Labuan (51 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for Asia/Kuching planning.

Closest curated airport references from Kuala Penyu: KUL Sepang (1572 km).

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