Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, is centrally located on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. This Garden City of Lights was built on the confluence of two rivers, the Klang and the Gombak Rivers. The city started as a mining settlement in the late 1800s.

Although Kuala Lumpur's tin trade has since declined, the growth of the city has remained unabated. Today, with a population of 1.8 million, it is the pulse of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur leads the country's fast paced development in trade and commerce, banking and finance, manufacturing, transportation, information technology and tourism.

Kuala Lumpur continued to grow despite two World Wars, the rubber and tin commodity crash and the State of Emergency (1948-60) during which Malaya was preoccupied with the communist insurgency.