Tongkang Pechah（ Jawi: توڠكڠ ڤچه, ）is a small town in

Batu Pahat District The Batu Pahat District is a district in the state of Johor, Malaysia. It lies southeast of Muar, southwest of Kluang, northwest of Pontian, south of Segamat and Tangkak District. The capital of the district is Bandar Penggaram. Geography ...

Johor Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the northwest. Johor shares maritime ...

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. Its name was taken from the

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ore

tongkang Tongkang or "Tong'kang" refers to several type of boats used to carry goods along rivers and shoreline in Maritime Southeast Asia. One of the earliest record of tongkang has a background of 14th century, being mentioned in Malay Annals which wa ...

which sunk in Sungai Simpang Kiri (nearby the bridge which connected Batu Pahat and Tongkang Pechah).

Geography

The town spans over an area of 6.6 km².http://jpbd.johor.gov.my/images/jpbd_DokumenTerbitan/Handbook.pdf

Economy

This small town is occupied with manufacturing factories in 1990s, including fabric factories and biscuit factories. Well-known biscuit factories (Hup Seng, Munchy and Hwa Tai) are located in this small town.

Neighbourhood

* Bandar Putera Indah

References

Towns in Johor Batu Pahat District {{Johor-geo-stub