Johor Bahru District

Infobox Districts of Malaysian States
malaysian_state=Johor Darul Ta'zim
state_

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native_name=Johor Bahru
جوهر بهرو
district_office=Johor Bahru
district_officer=Malick Awang
parliament="Dewan Rakyat"
parliament_seat1=
parliament_seat_party1=
parliament_seat2=
parliament_seat_party2=
parliament_seat3=
parliament_seat_party3=
state_assembly="Dewan Undangan Negeri"
local_area_government=MBJB ¹
MPJBT
MPPG ³

population_estimate_year=2001
population_estimate=1,278,000
area=1817
population_density=703.4
footnotes=* BN=Barisan Nasional
¹ "Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru"
² "Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru Tengah"
³ "Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan Pasir Gudang"

"This article refers to a district in the state of Johor in Malaysia. For other uses, see Johor Bahru (disambiguation)"

The Johor Bahru district is located in the southern part of Johor, separated from Singapore by Straits of Johor. It covers an area of 1871 km² and has a population of over 1.2 million. The district borders Pontian district on the west, Kota Tinggi District on the east, Kluang District on the north and Singapore to the south. Johor Bahru metropolitan area is surrounded by rich oil palm estates.

Johor Bahru district comprises three local authorities - Johor Bahru City Council (MBJB), Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council (MPJBT) and Pasir Gudang Local Authority (PBTPG) with a possibly new fifth local authority covering a proposed new administrative capital of Johor in Bandar Nusajaya near the Linkedua Expressway to Singapore.

The city of Johor Bahru is Malaysia's southern gateway. It receives 60% of foreign tourist to Malaysia and is a major holiday and shopping destination for neighbouring Singaporeans due to the weaker Malaysian ringgit vis-a-vis Singaporean dollar. There are also considerable number of Malaysians who study and work in Singapore, but commute on a daily basis to and from Johor Baru and the city state.

The district has two land links to Singapore; Johor Causeway and the newer Linkedua Expressway. The customs and immigration complex of the Linkedua Expressway is named Kompleks Sultan Abu Bakar in Malay, after the current Sultan's late great-grandfather, Sultan Abu Bakar.

The site is also close to the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 in 1977. The Malaysia Airlines plane crashed into the swampy lands of Tanjong Kupang. There were no survivors and many bodies remained unidentified. They were subsequently buried in a Muslim cemetery in Johor Bahru.

Lee Kuan Yew once cited anger of Johor Bahru people when he was supposedly bemused by the high number of Singaporean visitors despite what he alleged as "high occurrences of crimes" in Johor Bahru.Fact|date=June 2007

Capital

* Johor Bahru

Other Towns

* Skudai
* Masai
* Pandan-Tebrau
* Plentong
* Pasir Gudang
* Gelang Patah
* Tampoi
* Ulu Tiram
* Kempas

External links

* [http://www.mbjb.gov.my Johor Bahru Government Site]