Tanjung Bungah

Jalan Tanjung Bungah, part of Federal Route 6, is the coastal main road, served by Rapid Penang buses 101, 102 and 104. As of Sep 2025 a 10.6 km North Coastal Paired Road from Jalan Tanjung Bungah to Teluk Bahang was expected to be built from 2026 to 2031, subject to an amended environmental impact assessment and land acquisition.

Tanjung Bungah reaches from forested hillsides to the shore on the north-east coast of Penang Island, between Tanjung Tokong and Batu Ferringhi. Once a Malay and Chinese fishing village and a beach destination from the 1950s, it has grown since the 1980s into a line of high-rise condominiums along the coast. Many foreign residents live here, including retirees, and the Penang Floating Mosque, built after the 2004 tsunami, is a local landmark.

Dalat International School has been on its beachside campus since 1971, and Prince of Wales Island International School runs a nursery-to-Year-8 campus on Jalan Loh Poh Heng; Tenby Schools Penang, teaching British and Malaysian curricula, is just beside the suburb. The wet market on Jalan Sungai Kelian opens every morning and turns into a night bazaar of snacks and street food on Tuesdays.

Jalan Tanjung Bungah, the coastal main road, carries Rapid Penang buses 101, 102 and 104, and the single-carriageway road onward to Batu Ferringhi jams at holidays and on long weekends. As of September 2025 a 10.6 km North Coastal Paired Road to Teluk Bahang was expected to be built from 2026 to 2031, subject to an amended environmental impact assessment and land acquisition.

In October 2017 a landslide at a hillside construction site beside a quarry killed 11 workers; a state inquiry found it preventable and recommended tighter rules for building on steep slopes. Residents have described unplanned, high-density hillside development, and in June 2021 a downpour flooded villages here and along the neighbouring coast.