Open Places API

Coverage

Places API for Malaysia.

823,242 places in Malaysia, searchable with one GET request. Coverage across Peninsular and East Malaysia, including Kuala Lumpur, George Town, and destinations nationwide.

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One request away.

Search "nasi lemak" near Kuala Lumpur (3.139, 101.6869) and get JSON back: names, coordinates, categories, structured addresses, and distances in miles. 

curl -G "https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places" \
  --data-urlencode "q=nasi lemak" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=3.139" \
  --data-urlencode "lon=101.6869" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPEN_PLACES_API_KEY"

Coordinates to try: Kuala Lumpur 3.139, 101.6869 · George Town 5.4141, 100.3288

What you can build with it.

Travel & itinerary apps

Surface food, sights, and services around hotels and route points across Malaysia.

"What's nearby" features

Real estate, delivery zones, and store finders: anything that asks what's near a coordinate.

AI agents

Give an agent real Malaysia places instead of hallucinated ones. See the agent guide.

Malaysia coverage FAQ.

Does Open Places API cover Malaysia?

Yes. 823,242 places in Malaysia are searchable today. Density, freshness, and field completeness vary by location.

Where does the Malaysia place data come from?

From the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset: open data backed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Open Places API follows Overture's monthly release cycle.

Can I add my own places in Malaysia?

Yes. Account-owned layers let you add private records, correct base data, and suppress places, merged into every search your API keys make, on top of or instead of the Overture base.

What does it cost?

Plans are flat with hard caps: free for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 30,000, $49 for 100,000, $249 for 1 million. When you hit the cap the API returns a 402 and stops. It never bills an overage.

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