Penang

Penang shares 592 connections with 9951 other places across 27 topics, ranging from government and military history to cuisine and performing arts. Its strongest co-connected places are Malaysia and Singapore, with China and India also well represented. A Japanese occupation during World War II shapes much of the military cluster. The city also originated the boria theatre form, which pairs singing with violin, maracas, and tabla, and its George Town Literary Festival became the first Southeast Asian literary event to win the international Literary Festival Award at the London Book Fair in 2018.