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George Town, Penang is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 24, 2024.

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Date	Process	Result
May 6, 2016	Peer review	Reviewed
May 23, 2017	Peer review	Reviewed
February 19, 2018	Good article nominee	Not listed
February 25, 2018	Good article nominee	Listed
April 17, 2018	Good article reassessment	Kept
April 23, 2022	Good article reassessment	Delisted
January 13, 2024	Peer review	Reviewed
March 11, 2024	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 23, 2018. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that George Town, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang, was the first British settlement in Southeast Asia?
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on August 11, 2019, August 11, 2021, and August 11, 2022.
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Penang Hop-On Hop-Off was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 15 May 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into George Town, Penang. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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