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Kuala Lumpur

kuala-lumpur-flagKuala Lumpur is one of the unique Cities whereby tourist can find the most modern and tallest building, we'll preserve natural landscape, amazing remarkable building and well blend multi culture Asia ethic in one places.  Kuala Lumpur is a capital city of Malaysia since 1963 after six years Malaysia gets independence from British. The city official name is Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur but most of the local people just called it kl, became the first Federal Territory state in 1 February 1974 as Malaysia Government Administration Centre before it's taken over by Putrajaya on 1st February 2001, Kuala Lumpur remain as Malaysia business, commercial and economy centre.


Brief History

The history started in 1857 when Raja Abdullah Raja Jaafar a Malay Chief of Klang hired about 87 Chinese miner upriver from Klang searching for Tin deposit in order to open a new and larger Tin Mining, they landed at the confluence of Sungai Gombak and Sungai Klang (Klang River), Sungai Gombak previously known as Muddy River, the landing point is said to have given rise to the name Kuala Lumpur. Among the early notable pioneers are Hiu Siew and Liu Ngim Kong.

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