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ID: 7001459
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001459
Record Type:
administrative
Kuala Lumpur (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 03 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 3.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 101 42 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 101.7000
decimal degrees
Note:
Thrived as center for tin collecting 19th cen.; grew rapidly after 1882 under influence of British resident Sir Frank Swettenham; controlled by Japanese in WW II from 1942 to 1945; neighboring districts have tin mines & rubber plantations.
Names:
Kuala Lumpur
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Malaysia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kuala Lumpur
(federal territory) (
P
)
................
Kuala Lumpur
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Chinese miners 1857
city (
C
)
national capital (
B
)
............
of Federated Malay States 1895; of Federation of Malaya, 1957; of Malaysia since 1963
capital (
C
)
............
of Wilayah Persekutan, 1944
municipality (
C
)
............
designated 1972
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
state capital (
H
)
............
of Selangor 1880-1974
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Malaysia
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Asia) [1000128]
Sources and Contributors:
Kuala Lumpur..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 490
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 18-19, X, 687
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-90
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
630-631
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 490
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 18-19, X, 687
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-90
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
630-631
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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