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KUALA LUMPUR
Kuala Lumpur is the capital city, legislative capital of Malaysia and the largest city in the country. Kuala Lumpur is one of the three Malaysian Federal Territories. Within Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur is commonly referred to as KL.Kuala Lumpur was founded in 1857 at the confluence of the Gombak and Klang rivers. It was the third Kapitan Cina, Yap Ah Loy, who oversaw the rise of Kuala Lumpur from a sleepy little mining town to become the foremost city of Selangor. Kapitan Yap and his backer, Tengku Kudin, were successful and it was from then, thanks to Kapitan Yap's able leadership, that Kuala Lumpur became Selangor's biggest city. He rebuilt Kuala Lumpur, which was devastated by the Civil War and repopulated it with Chinese miners from elsewhere in Selangor. After Kuala Lumpur burnt down in 1881, Kapitan Yap decided to rebuild Kuala Lumpur in brick and tile to replace the dangerous attap houses. When the Federated Malay States were incorporated with Swettenham in charge in 1896, Kuala Lumpur was made the capital.
During World War II Japanese forces captured Kuala Lumpur on January 11, 1942 and occupied the city for 44 months. After independence in 1957, Kuala Lumpur was the capital of the Federation of Malaya and continued to be the capital of the renamed Federation of Malaysia in 1963. In 1 February 1972 Kuala Lumpur seceded from Selangor and the city became a Federal Territory. The stretch of road facing Dataran Merdeka is perhaps the most famous road in Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur has been voted as one of top ten cities in Asia by a leading Asia magazine Asiaweek.
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