Gopeng (Jawi: ڬوڤيڠ, Chinese: 務邊) is a town located in Mukim Teja, Kampar District, Perak, Malaysia.
Gopeng was intensively mined by both European and Chinese miners, the latter having significant Hakka representation under Chung Keng Kwee, the leader of the Hai San secret society during the Larut War.
He was appointed as the Kapitan Cina after the Pangkor Treaty, and although his main homes were in Taiping and Penang, he maintained his foothold in Gopeng, securing contracts for street lighting there in 1892 as well as building quarters for civil servants thereafter.
[1] For the first few decades after British intervention, Gopeng was run by a tripartite; the Europeans, the Chinese led by the Eu family, and the Sumatrans by the Assistant Penghulu Imam Prang Ja Barumun.
The expressway cuts through the karst landscape of the Kinta Valley on the western foothills of the Titiwangsa Mountains, and Tapah–Gopeng stretch is one of the most scenic routes on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.