Bayan Lepas

Bayan Lepas
Bayan Lepas; بيان لڤس; 峇六拜
	Town
	Bayan Lepas Location in Peninsular Malaysia
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Country	Malaysia
State	Penang
District	Southwest Penang Island
Founded	1956
Municipality established	1976
City Status	2015
Government
• Local Government	Penang Island City Council (MBPP)
• Penang Island City Mayor	Dato' Patahiyah binti Ismail
• Bayan Baru Member of Parliament	Sim Tze Tzin (PKR)
• Bayan Lepas State Assemblyman	Nordin bin Ahmad (UMNO)
Area
• Town	151.7 km2 (58.59 sq mi)
Elevation	4 m (13.1 ft)
Population (2007)
• Town	141,000(38th)
• Density	1,447/km2 (3,748/sq mi)
• Metro	1,225,501
	(metro pop is a 2000 est)
Time zone	MST (UTC+8)
• Summer (DST)	Not observed (UTC)
International dialling code prefix	+604 (landline only)
Website	http://www.mbpp.gov.my

Bayan Lepas (In Chinese, "峇六拜", "ba ler pai" in Penang Hokkien) is the district capital of Southwest Penang Island, Penang, Malaysia being home to the Penang International Airport. It has a population of about 141,000 people. Bayan Lepas is the main industrial hub of Penang, being home to the Free Industrial Zone, where factories of many multinational companies are located especially semiconductor industry. Penang International Airport also located at Bayan Lepas. Nowadays, the Greater Bayan Lepas has built majority of the condominiums and apartments when travelling on Penang Bridges.

Penang's shopping mall, Queensbay Mall, the Bukit Jambul Complex and Giant Hypermarket are located there. Bayan Lepas is connected to Georgetown via the Bayan Lepas Expressway or known as Lim Chong Eu Expressway. There are some tourist spots including the Snake Temple, War Museum, and the Fisheries Department Aquarium. Many new condominiums, housing estates are all currently under construction in this area.

Highway North Bound

5 kilometres exit from Persimpangan Jawi
17 kilometres from Persimpangan Bandar Baharu
36 kilometres from Persimpangan Bukit Merah

South Bound

5 kilometres from Persimpangan Juru
10 kilometres from Persimpangan Jambatan Pulau Pinang
12 kilometres from Persimpangan Perai

Climate

Bayan Lepas features a tropical rainforest climate under the Köppen climate classification. Bayan Lepas has a very lengthy wet season. As is common in several regions with this climate, precipitation is seen even during the short dry season. Temperatures are relatively consistent throughout the course of the year, with average high temperatures around 32 degrees Celsius and average low temperatures around 23 degrees Celsius. Bayan Lepas sees on average roughly 2300 mm of precipitation per year.

Climate data for Penang
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	31.6 (88.9)	32.2 (90)	32.2 (90)	31.9 (89.4)	31.6 (88.9)	31.4 (88.5)	31.0 (87.8)	30.9 (87.6)	30.4 (86.7)	30.4 (86.7)	30.7 (87.3)	31.1 (88)	31.3 (88.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)	26.9 (80.4)	27.4 (81.3)	27.6 (81.7)	27.7 (81.9)	27.6 (81.7)	27.3 (81.1)	26.9 (80.4)	26.8 (80.2)	26.5 (79.7)	26.4 (79.5)	26.5 (79.7)	26.7 (80.1)	27.0 (80.6)
Average low °C (°F)	23.2 (73.8)	23.5 (74.3)	23.7 (74.7)	24.1 (75.4)	24.2 (75.6)	23.8 (74.8)	23.4 (74.1)	23.4 (74.1)	23.2 (73.8)	23.3 (73.9)	23.3 (73.9)	23.4 (74.1)	23.5 (74.4)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	68.7 (2.705)	71.7 (2.823)	146.4 (5.764)	220.5 (8.681)	203.4 (8.008)	178.0 (7.008)	192.1 (7.563)	242.4 (9.543)	356.1 (14.02)	383.0 (15.079)	231.8 (9.126)	113.5 (4.469)	2,407.6 (94.787)
Average rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm)	5	6	9	14	14	11	12	14	18	19	15	9	146
Mean monthly sunshine hours	248.8	233.2	235.3	224.5	203.6	202.4	205.5	188.8	161.0	170.2	182.1	209.0	2,464.4
Source: NOAA^[1]

High Tech Industrialisation

Bayan Lepas enjoys the foreign direct investment (FDI) from high technology companies. National Semiconductor, now known as Motorola is the pioneer of the MNC that set up the factory in Bayan Lepas .^[2] Then, it was followed by the "children of Fairchild" such as Intel, AMD. In 1975, additional 5 MNC such as Osram, Hewlett Packard, now known as Agilent, Bosch, Hitachi and Clarion also followed suits. Together, these companies is locally known as "Samurai Eight"which bring prosperity thru the 70's until now.^[3]