Editing Alor Setar (section)

===Ethnicity and religion===
The following is based on Department of Statistics Malaysia 2020 census.<ref name="stats"/>
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The city of Alor Setar recorded a population of 374,051, according to 2020 census data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/download_Population/files/population/04Jadual_PBT_negeri/PBT_Kedah.pdf |title=Total population by ethnic group, Local Authority area and state, Malaysia, 2010 |publisher=Statistics.gov.my |access-date=10 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114160228/http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/download_Population/files/population/04Jadual_PBT_negeri/PBT_Kedah.pdf |archive-date=14 November 2012 }}</ref> The 2010 Malaysian census reported that ethnic [[Malay people|Malays]] formed the majority of the city with 269,317 (72.0%), predominantly of [[Kedahan Malay]] origin, with smaller numbers of Malays from other territories. The Alor Setar-Chinese forming 83,413 (22.3%). The local Chinese community are mainly [[Hokkien]]-speaking together with other Chinese-dialect minorities. Other visible communities includes [[Malaysian Indian|Indian]]s (mostly [[Tamils]]) with 7,107 (1.9%) and other Bumiputeras with 374 (0.1%), as well as other ethnicities (mainly [[Malaysian Siamese|Siamese]]) with 1,122 (0.3%). The Non-Malaysians constitute 12,718 (3.4%) of the local population.