Talk:Johor Bahru
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[edit] 2nd biggest city
Is JB really the second biggest city? I thought Georgetown of Penang is?
It is really great to see such an active contribution to this article! Thank you everyone!
[edit] Yes, it is
Yes, it's true. The previous holder for 2nd largest city was Ipoh, but then surpassed by JB because JB has larger population growth rate than Ipoh. Georgetown's population rate was slightly negative in 2000 but then slightly positive several years later. Hezery99 04:29, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Naming convention
The Chinese name is not officially accepted by Sultan Iskandar. Only Jawi and Rumi are the officially accepted scripts and Malay is the officially accepted language of Malaysia.
Tan 19:56, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Changes noted and accepted.
themediapot 5:10pm 5 Oct 2005 (GMT +8)
[edit] Addition of tourist info
Can I suggest and possibly get a concensus to remove the tourist promotional information added by Cejan?
The reasons being:
1. I recognise the writing and pictures are from local tourist promotional brochures. It thus violates copyright requirements for contribution of information/content to Wikipedia.
2. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Travel information should be moved to wikitravel.org with a link from this article to wikitravel.org's Johor Bahru page.
3. The new "Introduction" section added duplicates the actual introduction section at the top of the page to some degree. If additional introduction is required it should be integrated into existing/actual introduction section.
Sections in question:
1. Introduction 2. Getting there and around 3. Places of interest
themediapot 5:10pm 5 Oct 2005 (GMT +8)
[edit] Flag
Since JB's flag is similar to that of Labuan's, I've made this page borrowed the flag. Unless somebody is willing to redraw the flag, please do not remove the flag. THanks. __earth (Talk) 15:11, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Origin of name?
Does anyone know the origin of the name? If it were Johor baru I could understand, but where does the 'h' come from? Is it a variant or baru (Malay, "new")? m.e. 09:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
