Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, called KL by locals, is Malaysia's federal capital and largest city at 6.5 million. Kuala Lumpur is a cultural melting pot with some of the world's cheapest 5-star hotels, impressive shopping districts, food from all parts of the world, and natural wonders within day-trip distance.Photo: thomasgl, Public domain.
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Popular Destinations
Old City Centre
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Kuala Lumpur's Old City Centre is the traditional heart of Malaysia's capital city in terms of administration as well as trade and commerce.
North of City Centre
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Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Chow Kit and Kampung Baru are areas to the north of Kuala Lumpur's City Centre.
Destinations
Brickfields and Bangsar
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Brickfields is known as the biggest Little India of Kuala Lumpur.
Botanical Garden
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The Perdana Botanical Garden, formerly known as Lake Gardens, is located right west of the Old City Centre.
West Kuala Lumpur
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Damansara and Hartamas are two middle- to upper-middle-class suburbs which lie to the west of Kuala Lumpur.
South Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur's southern suburbs lie to the south of the city centre, Brickfields, Bangsar and Midvalley and Ampang.North Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur's Northern Suburbs is the huge area running north of the City Center and Tuanku Abdul Rahman's Chow Kit area.East Kuala Lumpur
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Ampang is a district of Kuala Lumpur which lies to the east of the Golden Triangle.
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Notable Places in the Area
Kuala Lumpur Tower
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Kuala Lumpur Tower, colloquially referred to as KL Tower, is a 6-storey, 421-metre-tall telecommunication tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
National Museum
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3°8′15.29″N 101°41′14.60″E / 3.1375806°N 101.6873889°E Frieze depicting Malaysian history at the National MuseumThe National Museum is a museum located in Jalan Damansara, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Independence Square
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Independence Square is a square located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Localities in the Area
Bukit Bintang
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Bukit Bintang is the shopping and entertainment district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bangsar
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Bangsar is a residential suburb on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, lying about 4 kilometres south-west of the city centre.
Brickfields
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3°3′27.99″N 101°45′1.84″E / 3.0577750°N 101.7505111°E The Torana Gate in BrickfieldsBrickfields is a neighbourhood located on the western flank of central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur
- Type: City with 1,770,000 residents
- Description: Federal territory and capital city of Malaysia
- Neighbors: Selangor
- Categories: federal territory of Malaysia, million city, big city, capital city, largest city, global city, human settlement, primate city and locality
- Location: West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
3.1517° or 3° 9' 6" northLongitude
101.6942° or 101° 41' 39" eastPopulation
1,770,000Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)IATA airport code
KULUnited Nations Location Code
MY KULOpen Location Code
6PM35M2V+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1889910974OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1735161Wikidata ID
Q1865Kuala Lumpur Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kuala Lumpur
- Achinese: Kuala Lumpur
- Afar: Kuala Lumpur
- Afrikaans: Kuala Lumpur
- Akan: Kuala Lumpur
- Albanian: Kuala Lumpur
- Amharic: ኩዋላ ሉምፑር
- Arabic: Kuala Lumpur
- Arabic: كوالالمبور
- Aragonese: Kuala Lumpur
- Armenian: Կուալա Լումպուր
- Armenian: Քուալա Լամփուր
- Assamese: কুয়ালা লামপুৰ
- Assamese: কুৱালালামপুৰ
- Asturian: Kuala Lumpur
- Avaric: Куала-Лумпур
- Awadhi: क्वालालम्पुर
- Azerbaijani: Kuala-Lumpur
- Azerbaijani: Kuala Lumpur
- Balinese: Kuala Lumpur
- Banjar: Kuala Lumpur
- Bashkir: Куала-Лумпур
- Basque: Kuala Lumpur
- Belarusian: Куала-Лумпур
- Belarusian: Куала Лумпур
- Bengali: কুয়ালালামপুর
- Bhojpuri: कुआला लंपुर
- Bosnian: Kuala Lumpur
- Breton: Kuala Lumpur
- Bulgarian: Куала Лумпур
- Burmese: ကွာလာလမ်ပူမြို့
- Catalan: Kuala Lumpur
- Cebuano: Kuala Lumpur (estado)
- Cebuano: Kuala Lumpur
- Central Bikol: Kuala Lumpur
- Central Kurdish: کوالالومپور
- Chechen: Куала-Лумпур
- Chinese: Jílóngpō
- Chinese: Kuala Lumpur
- Chinese: 吉隆坡
- Chuvash: Куала-Лумпур
- Croatian: Kuala Lumpur
- Czech: Kuala Lumpur
- Danish: Kuala Lumpur
- Dimli (individual language): Kuala Lumpur
- Dotyali: क्वालालम्पुर
- Dutch: Kuala Lumpur
- Eastern Mari: Куала-Лумпур
- Egyptian Arabic: كوالا لامبور
- English: Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
- English: K.L.
- English: KL
- Esperanto: Kuala-Lumpuro
- Estonian: Kuala Lumpur
- Fiji Hindi: Kuala Lumpur
- Finnish: Kuala Lumpur
- French: KL
- French: Kuala Lumpur
- Friulian: Kuala Lumpur
- Galician: Kuala Lumpur
- Georgian: კუალა-ლუმპური
- German: KL
- German: Kuala Lumpur
- Gorontalo: Kuala Lumpur
- Greek: Κουάλα Λουμπούρ
- Guarani: Kuala Lumpur
- Gujarati: કુઆલા લંપુર
- Haitian: Kouala Loumpou
- Hakka Chinese: Kuala Lumpur
- Hausa: Kuala Lumpur
- Hebrew: קואלה לומפור
- Hindi: कुआ लालम्पुर
- Hindi: कुआलालम्पुर
- Hungarian: Kuala Lumpur
- Icelandic: Kúala Lúmpúr
- Ido: Kuala Lumpur
- Iloko: Kuala Lumpur
- Inari Sami: Kuala Lumpur
- Indonesian: KL
- Indonesian: Kuala Lumpur
- Indonesian: Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
- Interlingua: Kuala Lumpur
- Interlingue: Kuala Lumpur
- Irish: Kuala Lumpur
- Italian: KL
- Italian: Kuala Lumpur
- Japanese: KL
- Japanese: クアラルンプール
- Japanese: 吉隆坡
- Japanese: 連邦領クアラルンプール
- Javanese: Kuala Lumpur
- Kabardian: Кууалэ-Лумпур
- Kabyle: Kuala Lumpur
- Kalo Finnish Romani: Kuala Lumpur
- Kannada: ಕೌಲಾಲಂಪುರ್
- Kannada: ಕ್ವಾಲ ಲುಂಪುರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Kuala Lumpur
- Kazakh: Куала-Лумпур
- Kazakh: Куала-Лумпур қаласы
- Kazakh: Куала Лумпур
- Khmer: គូឡាឡាំពួ
- Kildin Sami: Куала-Лумпур
- Kirghiz: Куала-Лумпур
- Korean: 꾸알라룸뿌르
- Korean: 쿠알라룸푸르
- Kurdish: Kuala Lumpur
- Lao: Kuala Lumpur
- Lao: ກົວລາລຸມປູ
- Lao: ກົວລາລໍາເປີ
- Latin: Cuala Lumpuria
- Latin: Kuala Lumpur
- Latvian: Kualalumpura
- Latvian: Kualalumpūra
- Ligurian: Kuala Lumpur
- Literary Chinese: 吉隆坡
- Lithuanian: Kvala Lumpūras
- Livvi: Kuala-Lumpur
- Lombard: Kuala Lumpur
- Lower Sorbian: Kuala Lumpur
- Lule Sami: Kuala Lumpur
- Luxembourgish: Kuala Lumpur
- Macedonian: Куала Лумпур
- Maithili: क्वालालम्पुर
- Malay: Kuala Lumpur
- Malay: Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
- Malay: ويلايه ڤرسکوتوان کوالا لومڤور
- Malay: کوالا لومڤور
- Malayalam: കോലാലമ്പൂർ
- Malayalam: ക്വാല ലമ്പുർ
- Maltese: Kuala Lumpur
- Maori: Kuala Lumpur
- Maori: Kuara Rūpa
- Marathi: क्वालालंपूर
- Mazanderani: کوآلالامپور
- Min Dong Chinese: Kuala Lumpur
- Min Nan Chinese: Kuala Lumpur
- Minangkabau: Kuala Lumpur
- Mingrelian: კუალა-ლუმპური
- Moksha: Куала-Лумпур
- Mongolian: Куала Лумпур
- Moroccan Arabic: كوالا لامپور
- Navajo: Tóʼahidiilį́į́łchííʼ
- Nepali: क्वालालम्पुर
- Northern Frisian: Kuala Lumpur
- Northern Luri: کوالالامپور
- Northern Sami: Kuala Lumpur
- Norwegian: Kuala Lumpur
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kuala Lumpur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kuala Lumpur
- Novial: Kuala Lumpur
- Occitan (post 1500): Kuala Lumpur
- Oriya: କୁଆଲାଲୁମ୍ପୁର
- Ossetian: Куалæ-Лумпур
- Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻကွာလာလမ်ပူ
- Pampanga: Kuala Lumpur
- Panjabi: ਕੁਆਲਾ ਲਮਪੁਰ
- Panjabi: ਕੁਆਲਾ ਲੁੰਪੁਰ
- Papiamento: Kuala Lumpur
- Persian: کوالالامپور
- Persian: کوالا لامپور
- Piemontese: Kuala Lumpur
- Pite Sami: Kuala Lumpur
- Polish: Kuala Lumpur
- Portuguese: Kuala Lumpur
- Pushto: کوالالامپور
- Quechua: Kuala Lumpur
- Romanian: KL
- Romanian: Kuala Lumpur
- Russia Buriat: Куала-Лумпур
- Russian: Куала-Лумпур
- Santali: ᱠᱩᱣᱟᱞᱟ ᱞᱟᱢᱯᱩᱨ
- Saraiki: کوالالمپور
- Sardinian: Kuala Lumpur
- Scots: Kuala Lumpur
- Scottish Gaelic: Kuala Lumpur
- Serbian: Куала Лумпур
- Serbo-Croatian: Kuala Lumpur
- Shona: Kuala Lumpur
- Sicilian: Kuala Lumpur
- Silesian: Kuala Lumpur
- Sindhi: ڪوالالمپور
- Sinhala: ක්වාලාලම්පූර්
- Skolt Sami: Kuala Lumpur
- Slovak: Kuala Lumpur
- Slovenian: Kuala Lumpur
- Somali: Kuwala Lumbuur
- South Azerbaijani: کوالالامپور
- Southern Sami: Kuala Lumpur
- Spanish: Kuala Lumpur
- Sundanese: Kuala Lumpur
- Swahili: Kuala Lumpur
- Swedish: Kuala Lumpur
- Tagalog: Kuala Lumpur
- Tajik: Куала-Лумпур
- Talysh: Kuala Lumpur
- Tamil: கோல லும்பூர்
- Tamil: கோலாலம்பூர்
- Tamil: க்வாலா லும்பூர்
- Tatar: Kuala-Lumpur
- Telugu: కువాలా లంపూర్
- Telugu: కౌలాలంపూర్
- Telugu: క్వాలాలంపూర్
- Thai: กัวลาลัมเปอร์
- Tibetan: ཁལ་ལུང་ཕུ།
- Tok Pisin: Kuala Lumpur
- Tornedalen Finnish: Kuala Lumpur
- Turkish: Kuala Lumpur
- Turkmen: Kuala Lumpur
- Udmurt: Куала-Лумпур
- Uighur: كۇئالالۇمپۇر
- Ukrainian: Куала-Лумпур
- Ume Sami: Kuala Lumpur
- Upper Sorbian: Kuala Lumpur
- Urdu: کوالا لمپور
- Urdu: کوالالمپور
- Uzbek: Kuala Lumpur
- Veps: Kuala Lumpur
- Vietnamese: Kuala Lumpur
- Volapük: Kuala Lumpur
- Waray (Philippines): Kuala Lumpur
- Welsh: Kuala Lumpur
- Western Armenian: Քուալա Լամփուր
- Western Frisian: Kuala Lumpur
- Western Panjabi: کوالا لمپور
- Western Panjabi: کوالالمپور
- Wu Chinese: 吉隆坡
- Yakut: Куала Лумпур
- Yiddish: קוואלע לומפור
- Yoruba: Kuala Lumpur
- Yue Chinese: 吉隆坡
- Zeeuws: Kuala Lumpur
- Zhuang: Gizlungzpoh
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