Streets in Penang

Streets in Penang (29 January 2020)


The Directory of Streets in Penang is one of the most comprehensive on the web, listing 1660 streets in George Town as well as other places on Penang Island and Penang Mainland. It is assembled to provide you clear information about every street described, its location, its history, how to get there, what you can expect to find there, and so on. For some of these streets, I also provide lists of sights, eateries, hotels, businesses, residential properties and commercial properties. As far as possible, each page has at least one photograph and a Google map to give you an idea of how it looks like, and its whereabouts.

Map of Roads in Penang

Names in Penang Hokkien

Many of the roads in George Town also have names in the local lingua franca, Penang Hokkien. Available here is a list of road names in Penang Hokkien. The names in Penang Hokkien are provided in the new romanized system. To learn more about writing Penang Hokkien in this system, go to Penang Hokkien Made Easy.

Page Milestones

* Streets of considerable interest
* * Streets of major interest

Further Reading

13 May, 2103
The Star Restoring original road names

9 May, 2019
Malay Mail Penang to restore roads to original gazetted names

9 May, 2019
New Straits Times Penang streets reverting back to gazetted names

About this website

Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.

While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.