Bandar Sunway
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| Country | Malaysia |
| State | Selangor |
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| • Administered by | Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (Subang Jaya Municipal Council) |
| Time zone | MST (UTC+8) |
| Website | http://www.mpsj.gov.my/ |
Bandar Sunway is a township located in Subang Jaya. It is situated within the district of Petaling, Selangor. It is a 5 to 10 minutes drive to USJ, Puchong and other suburbs and townships of Petaling Jaya. It is only a 20 minutes drive to the Kuala Lumpur city centre via the New Pantai Expressway.
The township is governed by the Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya.
Contents
Climate
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical rainforest (Af).[2]
| Climate data for Bandar Sunway | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 31 (88) |
31.9 (89.4) |
32.3 (90.1) |
32.2 (90) |
31.9 (89.4) |
31.6 (88.9) |
31.4 (88.5) |
31.2 (88.2) |
31.4 (88.5) |
31.2 (88.2) |
31.2 (88.2) |
30.9 (87.6) |
31.52 (88.75) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.3 (79.3) |
27 (81) |
27.2 (81) |
27.5 (81.5) |
27.4 (81.3) |
27 (81) |
26.8 (80.2) |
26.8 (80.2) |
26.8 (80.2) |
26.7 (80.1) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.9 (80.48) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 21.7 (71.1) |
22.1 (71.8) |
22.2 (72) |
22.8 (73) |
23 (73) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.2 (72) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.2 (72) |
22.3 (72.1) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22 (72) |
22.34 (72.23) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 157 (6.18) |
146 (5.75) |
226 (8.9) |
259 (10.2) |
199 (7.83) |
116 (4.57) |
123 (4.84) |
143 (5.63) |
166 (6.54) |
256 (10.08) |
270 (10.63) |
233 (9.17) |
2,294 (90.32) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org (altitude: 77m)[2] | |||||||||||||
Leisure and Entertainment
Bandar Sunway has a number of accommodation options for tourists and business travellers.
Sunway Pyramid is a shopping centre opened in July 1997 as Malaysia's first themed shopping and entertainment mall. One of the mall's most easily recognised designs is the Egyptian-inspired Pyramid with a lion "standing guard" at the entrance. The rest of the building is embellished in the monumental style, complete with pseudo-hieroglyphics decorating facades, along with numerous Pharonic statuaries.
Sunway Pyramid was the only shopping mall in Malaysia to have an indoor ice skating rink, until IceScape Ice Rink opened in IOI City Mall Putrajaya.
In the center of Bandar Sunway is the amusement park Sunway Lagoon, which has many different themed parks, including some of the biggest rides in Malaysia and a large water park.
Education
Bandar Sunway has also become known as a higher education hub, with two large universities in the area, namely Monash University,[3] and Sunway University, as well as other private colleges such as Sunway College and The One Academy, an accomplished art college that won the ADreline awards for 2006. There are other notable schools in Bandar Sunway which are SK Bandar Sunway, SMK Bandar Sunway and Sunway International School.
Healthcare
Healthcare in Bandar Sunway is provided by private hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, along with Sime Darby Medical Centre (previously Subang Jaya Medical Centre) in adjacent Subang Jaya.
Religion
Bandar Sunway comprises many other companies and residences not owned by the Sunway group. Places of worship include Masjid Al-Husna, which is located right opposite Sunway Pyramid and Masjid Al-Amin.
Transport
Bandar Sunway is well-connected to the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya and Klang via a network of highways, namely the Federal Highway, the Shah Alam Expressway (KESAS), the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE), the New Pantai Expressway (NPE), the North-South Expressway Central Link (ELITE) and the Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP). The township is also served by an urban-suburb rail link, the Subang Jaya Komuter station.
Public transport
Bandar Sunway is where the BRT Sunway Line is located. It connects the KD08 Setia Jaya Komuter statio in the north until the still-under construction USJ7 LRT Station in the south, passing through Sunway Mentari, Sunway Pyramid and Monash University in the process. Sunway Monorail operated in Bandar Sunway from 2000 to 2007. The system has since been shut down due to the expansion of the Sunway Pyramid 2, and part of its infrastructure were later incorporated into the BRT line.
Alternately, there are rapidKL bus services connecting Sunway Pyramid to KD09 Subang Jaya Komuter station, some 15-20 minutes away.
Car
Bandar Sunway is located near the junction of the LDP 
and KL-Port Klang Federal Highway 
. Motorists coming from Puchong, Putrajaya and even Seremban will opt for the LDP.
A few kilometres south lies another interchange, this time between the LDP and KESAS 
, which connects Pandamaran near Port Klang to Sri Petaling.
Running directly in front of Sunway Pyramid mall is the NPE 
, which runs from Subang Jaya to Angkasapuri in Lembah Pantai in southwestern Kuala Lumpur.
Politics
Bandar Sunway falls under the Kelana Jaya constituency of the Malaysian Parliament, currently held by Wong Chen of the PKR.[4]
On the state level, Bandar Sunway is represented in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly as part of the Subang Jaya constituency. The incumbent assemblywoman for Subang Jaya is Hannah Yeoh of the DAP.[5]
References
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