Kuala Lumpur

Author: anuar ismail

Kuala Lumpur is one of the unique City whereby tourist can find the most modern and tallest building, well preserve natural landscape, amazing historic 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 get independence from British. Kuala Lumpur official name are Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur but most of 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 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.

One of major contributor of Kuala Lumpur development are huge demands of tin from North America and British Empire due of industry revolution, thousand of miner from China was bought in, Chinese miner was bought in for working at the mining because they are a experience miner at their own country. One of famous Chinese Capitan is Yap Ah Loy, Yap Ah Loy is the third Chinese Capitan and as a considerably a founder of Kuala Lumpur, the settlement was rapidly expanded under his leadership until conflict within Yap Ah Loy and Malay Ruler forced him to leave from the city.

Population

The city has population about 1.6 million well blend multi race and ethnic, there are 43%Chinese, 38%Malays, 10%Indian, Punjabi and some others ethnic from East Malaysia such Iban and Kadazan. Due of its rapid grow in economy and development, Kuala Lumpur become center of attraction for job seeker not only by local people but also from other Asian country such Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam and Bangladeshi. As multi race city you will surprise you can find almost any kind of world famous food in Kuala Lumpur, you just name it what type of food you wanted to try either from Vietnam, Thailand, Mediterranean, Western, Japanese, or local food, you can find it in city.

Languages in Kuala Lumpur

Malay languages or Bahasa Malaysia is official languages but most of people are able to understand and speak English, unofficially English is Kuala Lumpur second languages especially in private corporate. If tourist need an assistant do not shy ask the local people but you may need to speak in slow path to unable local people to understand it especially if you using English with accent. Besides Malay and English languages other languages such Chinese Mandarin and Tamil widely used but limited for only conversation only but some of the premises also included Chinese scrip in their signage.

Local Authority

The city covering 243.65 km2 (95.18 sq mi), surrounding by Selangor state. It's considered small for capital city compare with city in others country. Administration is carried out by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, an agency under the Federal Territories Ministry of Malaysia. They are responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure. Executive power lies with the mayor in the city hall, who is appointed for three years by the Federal Territories Minister. The current Federal Territory Minister is Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique.

Kuala Lumpur Weather,

Generally Kuala Lumpur only has two distinct season, dry season from May till September, rainy season from September till May, average temperature within 24°C - 37 °C, humidity level 82% - 92%. During rainy day thunderstorm and lighting often accompany with heavy downpour. If you travel in Kuala Lumpur two essential things you need to brings, umbrella and a bottle of water. The most major problem in Kuala Lumpur during monsoon is flash flood. Since SMART (Storm Management and Road Tunnel) tunnel completed no more flash flood happening in Kuala Lumpur.

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About the Author

Anuar Ismail are the founder the first private tour guide website in Kuala Lumpur with 14 years experience in service industry.
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