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The following is a list of cities and towns in Malaysia by population according to various sources and methods of calculations.
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Explanation
The population situation for Malaysian cities is very confusing, even to Malaysians, and is in a constant definition revamp that just confuses more. There are LGAs (Local government areas), in urbanised areas mostly town and city councils, which do not fit cleanly into districts or correspond to them, haphazardly, and furthermore, in 2013 the Malaysian government released population figures for 2010 Census for only 12 cities/towns that fail to correspond with LGAs or Districts data. Therefore, all the Malaysian statistical agency published manners of data are presented here, in addition to 3rd party information.
Population by local government areas
The following is a list of 49 largest cities or towns based on the population within the local government area according to the 2010 census.
Population by administrative districts
The following is a list of the most populous administrative districts according to the 2010 Malaysian Census.
Largest urban agglomerations
The following is a list of 10 largest urban agglomerations, metropolitan areas or conurbations based on 2010 population census within local government areas surrounding the urban agglomeration and based on Google Earth compared the population within districts boundaries as wells as figures obtained from other online web sources.