Karak is a small town in Bentong District, Pahang, Malaysia. Located at the foothills of Malaysia's Titiwangsa Mountain Range, it is well known as a rest town along the Federal Route 2 from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan and lends its name to the Karak Highway, or the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway linking it to the country's capital of Kuala Lumpur. Town The town of Karak and its outlying areas are located about 20 km southeast of the region's municipal capital of Bentong, at an elevation of 72 metres, with several outlying villages within the area's outskirts, including Kampung Cinta Manis, Kampung Jambu Rias, Kampung Karak Setia, Kampung Sungai Dua, and Taman Seri Bentong, all located within the town's sub-district outskirts. The town's exact population is unknown, however a 2020 census by the Department of Statistics placed the Pahang state assembly seat of Sabai (which Karak is a part of) at 21,543 people. Much of the town is located along the main Jalan Lama Bentong-Karak (Old Bentong-Karak road in English) trunk road coming from the municipal capital of Bentong, with a fork in the road on its eastern outskirts bound for the village of Lanchang in the east and the village of Telemong in the south. The town can be accessed via Exit 813 just off the eastern end of the Karak Highway and the beginning of the East Coast Expressway , both managed by the highway concessionaire ANIH Berhad. The expressway runs parallel to the Federal Route 2 trunk road, which cuts through the town linking it to Gombak, Selangor. Considered a small but growing town by modern Malaysian standards, Karak is home to several residential areas, a police station, a fire department, a government clinic, several national as well as Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools in and around the town, and two local community colleges: the Kolej Yayasan Pahang Advanced Skills and the Malaysian Technical Skills Academy. It is also home to several places of worship, including three mosques: the Masjid Jamek Bandar Karak in the town's limits, as well as two more on the town's eastern outskirts, the Masjid Karak Setia and the Masjid Al-Ihsan Kg. Jambu Rias, the Karak Chinese Methodist Church, the Sri Bala Subramaniar Hindu temple, two Chinese temples, including a temple hall within the town's limits and the Ti Mu temple on the town's outskirts. There are three petrol stations, two banks, a post office