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Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, called KL by locals, is '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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Golden Triangle and Old City Centre.

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The is Kuala Lumpur's main shopping and nightlife district. Considered to be the closest thing to a Central Business District, the is home to the ever popular shopping area of Bukit Bintang.

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Kuala Lumpur's is the traditional heart of 's capital city in terms of administration as well as trade and commerce. The City Centre comprises the former colonial administrative district just west of the confluence of the Klang and Gombak River, where Kuala Lumpur was founded.

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Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Chow Kit and Kampung Baru are areas to the north of Kuala Lumpur's City Centre. They contain popular traditional shopping options as well as cheap authentic food and budget accommodation.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Brickfields and Bangsar and Botanical Garden.

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Brickfields is known as the biggest Little India of Kuala Lumpur. It is just south of the City Centre. Along the main road, Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Indian shops abound, selling Indian clothing, provisions and food whilst the surrounding area is home to both budget and luxury accommodation.

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The Perdana , formerly known as Lake Gardens, is located right west of the . Many sights and the calmness away from the city hustle and bustle invite for a visit.

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Damansara and Hartamas are two middle- to upper-middle-class suburbs which lie to the west of Kuala Lumpur. Although largely residential, both have pockets of good restaurants, watering holes and even some clubs.

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Kuala Lumpur's southern suburbs lie to the south of the city centre, Brickfields, Bangsar and Midvalley and Ampang. This article covers the districts of Cheras, Sri Petaling, Bandar Tasik Selatan, Bukit Jalil and Old Klang Road.

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Kuala Lumpur's Northern Suburbs is the huge area running north of the City Center and Tuanku Abdul Rahman's Chow Kit area. It is largely residential and industrial and will not be of particular interest to the visitor, except for the famous limestone cave temples of Batu Caves.

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Ampang is a district of Kuala Lumpur which lies to the east of the . Whilst largely a residential area, it is home to Kuala Lumpur's Little Korea and many foreign diplomatic missions. All other neighbourhoods are mainly residential.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Petronas Tower and Kuala Lumpur Tower.

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The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers and colloquially the KLCC Twin Towers, are an interlinked pair of 88-storey supertall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, standing at 451.9 m.

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The , colloquially referred to as KL Tower, is a 6-storey, 421-meter-tall in Kuala Lumpur, . It is the world's seventh-tallest tower.

Museum
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The is a public museum in Kuala Lumpur, dedicated to Malaysian art, culture, and history. Located on Jalan Damansara close to across .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Starhill and Setapak.

Suburb
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Bukit Bintang is the shopping and entertainment district of Kuala Lumpur, . It encompasses Jalan Bukit Bintang and its immediate surrounding areas.

Suburb
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is a town and mukim straddling both northeastern Kuala Lumpur and of , .

Suburb
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is a suburb located within the northern part of the city centre in Kuala Lumpur, , in the constituency of . The vicinity of is sandwiched between and Titiwangsa.

Kuala Lumpur

Latitude
3.1517° or 3° 9′ 6″ north
Longitude
101.6942° or 101° 41′ 39″ east
Population
1,980,000
Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)
IATA airport code
KUL
United Nations Location Code
MY KUL
Open location code
6PM35M2V+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1889910974
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1735161
Wiki­data ID
Q1865
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Kuala Lumpur” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Afrikaans: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Albanian: “KL, Territori Federal i Kuala Lumpur, K.L.”
  • Albanian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Amharic: “ኩዋላ ሉምፑር”
  • Arabic: “كوالا لمبور”
  • Arabic: “كوالالمبور”
  • Aragonese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Armenian: “KL, Կուալա Լումպուրի դաշնային տարածք, K.L.”
  • Armenian: “Կուալա Լումպուր”
  • Assamese: “কুয়ালা লামপুৰ”
  • Assamese: “কুৱালালামপুৰ”
  • Asturian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Avaric: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Awadhi: “कुआलालम्पुर”
  • Awadhi: “क्वालालम्पुर”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuala-Lumpur”
  • Balinese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Banjar: “Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia”
  • Banjar: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Bashkir: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Basque: “KL, Kuala Lumpur-eko Lurralde Federala, K.L.”
  • 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 Kanuri: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوالالومپور”
  • Chechen: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Chinese: “Jílóngpō”
  • Chinese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Chinese: “吉隆坡”
  • Chuvash: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Croatian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Czech: “KL, Federální území Kuala Lumpur, K.L.”
  • Czech: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Danish: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Dotyali: “क्वालालम्पुर”
  • Dutch: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Eastern Mari: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوالا لامبور”
  • Esperanto: “Kuala-Lumpuro”
  • Estonian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Finnish: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • French: “KL”
  • French: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Friulian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Fulah: “Kaula Lumpur”
  • Galician: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Georgian: “კუალა-ლუმპური”
  • German: “KL”
  • German: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Gorontalo: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Greek: “Κουάλα Λουμπούρ”
  • Guarani: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Gujarati: “KL, ફેડરલ ટેરિટરી ઑફ કુઆલાલંપુર, K.L.”
  • Gujarati: “કુઆલા લંપુર”
  • Haitian: “Kouala Loumpou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Hausa: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Hebrew: “קואלה לומפור”
  • Hindi: “कुआ लालम्पुर”
  • Hindi: “कुआलालम्पुर”
  • Hindi: “केएल, संघीय क्षेत्र कुआलालंपुर, के.एल.”
  • Hungarian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Iban: “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”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “KL”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Kannada: “KL, ಕೌಲಾಲಂಪುರ್ ಫೆಡರಲ್ ಟೆರಿಟರಿ, K.L.”
  • Kannada: “ಕೌಲಾಲಂಪುರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವಾಲ ಲುಂಪುರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Kashmiri: “کوالا لمپور”
  • Kazakh: “Куала Лумпур”
  • Kazakh: “Куала-Лумпур қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Khmer: “គូឡាឡាំពួ”
  • Kildin Sami: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Kirghiz: “КЛ, Куала-Лумпурдун федералдык аймагы, К.Л.”
  • Kirghiz: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Komering: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Korean: “꾸알라룸뿌르”
  • Korean: “쿠알라룸푸르”
  • Kurdish: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Lao: “ກົວລະລຸມປຸຣ”
  • Lao: “ກົວລະລຸມປູ”
  • Lao: “ກົວລາລຸມປູ”
  • 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”
  • Malagasy: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Malay: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur”
  • Malay: “کوالا لومڤور”
  • Malay: “ويلايه ڤرسکوتوان کوالا لومڤور”
  • Malayalam: “KL, ഫെഡറൽ ടെറിട്ടറി ഓഫ് ക്വാലാലംപൂർ, K.L.”
  • Malayalam: “കോലാലമ്പൂർ”
  • Malayalam: “ക്വാല ലമ്പുർ”
  • Maltese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Maori: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Maori: “Kuara Rūpa”
  • Marathi: “KL, फेडरल टेरिटरी ऑफ क्वालालंपूर, K.L.”
  • Marathi: “क्वालालंपूर”
  • Mazanderani: “کوآلالامپور”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Minangkabau: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Mingrelian: “კუალა-ლუმპური”
  • Moksha: “Куала Лумпур”
  • Moksha: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Mongolian: “KL, Куала Лумпурын Холбооны нутаг дэвсгэр, K.L.”
  • Mongolian: “Куала Лумпур”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كوالا لامپور”
  • Navajo: “Tóʼahidiilį́į́łchííʼ”
  • Nepali: “KL, क्वालालम्पुरको संघीय क्षेत्र, K.L.”
  • Nepali: “क्वालालम्पुर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Northern Luri: “کوالالامپور”
  • Northern Sami: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Norwegian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Novial: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Oriya: “କୁଆଲାଲୁମ୍ପୁର”
  • Oriya: “କେ.ଏଲ୍, କୁଆଲାଲମ୍ପୁରର ଫେଡେରାଲ୍ ଟେରିଟୋରୀ, କେ।”
  • Ossetian: “Куалæ-Лумпур”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻကွာလာလမ်ပူ”
  • Pampanga: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਆਲਾ ਲਮਪੁਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਆਲਾ ਲੁੰਪੁਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Persian: “کوالا لامپور”
  • Persian: “کوالالامپور”
  • Piemontese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Pite Sami: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Polish: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Portuguese: “KL, Território Federal de Kuala Lumpur, K.L.”
  • Portuguese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Pushto: “کوالالامپور”
  • Quechua: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Romanian: “KL”
  • Romanian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Russia Buriat: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Russian: “КЛ, Федеральная территория Куала-Лумпур, КЛ.”
  • Russian: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Sakizaya: “Ci-lung-puo”
  • 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: “KL, Territorio Federal de Kuala Lumpur, K.L.”
  • Spanish: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵡⴰⵍⴰ ⵍⴰⵎⴱⵓⵔ”
  • Sundanese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Swahili: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Swedish: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Tagalog: “KL, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, K.L.”
  • 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: “KL, Kuala Lumpur Federal Bölgesi, K.L.”
  • Turkish: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Turkmen: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Udmurt: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Uighur: “كۇئالالۇمپۇر”
  • Ukrainian: “KL, Федеральна територія Куала-Лумпур, K.L.”
  • Ukrainian: “Куала-Лумпур”
  • Ume Sami: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Urdu: “کوالا لمپور”
  • Urdu: “کوالالمپور”
  • Uzbek: “KL, Kuala-Lumpur federal hududi, K.L.”
  • Uzbek: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Veps: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Vietnamese: “Cát Long Pha”
  • Vietnamese: “Cu-a-la Lăm-pơ”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Volapük: “Kuala Lumpur”
  • Võro: “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”
  • Zulu: “i-Kuala Lumpur”
  • “Kuala Lumpur”
  • “कुआला लंपुर”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kuala Lumpur”. Photo: Renek78, CC0.