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The Chinese community in Penang includes the Peranakan Chinese, a hybrid ethnicity known for their distinctive architecture, costumes and cuisine. The state is also home to a cosmopolitan mix of indigenous East Malaysians, ethnic Eurasians and Siamese. [240] [241] [242] Foreigners comprised 8% of Penang's population in 2020. [236]
Penangite Chinese are ethnic Chinese Malaysians of full or partial Chinese ancestry who either hail from or live within the State of Penang. As of 2020 [update] , 45% of Penang's population belonged to the Chinese ethnic group, making ethnic Chinese the largest ethnic community within the state.
Penang is a diverse multiethnic and multicultural society. Residents of the state are colloquially known as Penangites or "Penang-lang". [3] Traditionally regarded as a Chinese-majority state, the Bumiputera population, which includes ethnic Malays, has reached parity with that of the Chinese in recent years.
Map of Penang Island surveyed by Commander F C P Vereker in 1884. With an area of 295 km 2 (114 sq mi), Penang Island is the fourth largest island wholly in Malaysia, after Banggi Island, Bruit Island and Langkawi Island. It is also the most populated island city in the country, with a population of 794,313 as of 2020. [1]
George Town in 1950. As a free port, the city had mainly depended on maritime trade in the years prior to Malaya's independence.. In December 1946, the Penang Constitutional Consultative Committee was formed by Chinese business elites, namely from the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce (PCCC), Chinese Town Hall and the Penang SCBA.
The Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi (simplified Chinese: 邱公司) (Penang Hokkien: Khu-kong-si) or "Khoo Kongsi" for short, is the largest Hokkien clanhouse in Malaysia with elaborate and highly ornamented architecture, a mark of the dominant presence of the Chinese in Penang, Malaysia. The famous Khoo Kongsi is the grandest clan temple in the ...
Ethnic Chinese residents arguably suffered the most brutal treatment, as the Imperial Japanese Army massacred thousands of Chinese as part of the Sook Ching campaign to rid what was perceived as anti-Japanese elements in the society. [94] Penang's womenfolk were also coerced to work as comfort women by the Imperial Japanese Army. [95] [96]
The area had already been inhabited for decades prior to Captain Francis Light's founding of Penang Island in 1786. Tanjong Tokong was believed to be the site of the first Chinese settlement on Penang Island. Up until the 1970s, Tanjong Tokong was a fishing village; rapid urbanisation soon followed, with residential high-rises now lining the coast.