
City Guide: Kuala Lumpur
A brief history of Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur’s origins are relatively recent, going back to just 1857. It was then that a member of Selangor's royal family, Raja Abdullah, decided to open up an area in the Klang Valley for tin prospectors in the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers, which ultimately became Kuala Lumpur. After a civil war erupted at the peak of gang warfare, Kuala Lumpur was rebuilt and repopulated. Farmers were brought in,