1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Malaysia
Compare this sourced profile of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kuala Lumpur—1,453,975, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: federal territory and capital city of Malaysia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kuala Lumpur is GeoNames ID 1735161. Its recorded administrative path is WP. Kuala Lumpur → Kuala Lumpur → Malaysia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Kuala Lumpur occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-29; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kuala Lumpur ranks 334 by recorded population. Inside the 20 selected Malaysia entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 193. Its 1,453,975 population value is 2.54 times the 572,439 median for the country cohort and 1.44 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kuala Lumpur falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Malaysia population cohort. Kuala Lumpur's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kuala Lumpur's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Petaling Jaya at 9.632 km with 807,879 recorded people; Kota Damansara at 11.896 km with 500,000 recorded people; Selayang Baru Utara at 12.831 km with 542,409 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.199 km. Compared with Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur's recorded population is 1.80 times as large. Against Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya follows Petaling → Selangor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kuala Lumpur's. Against Kuala Lumpur, Kota Damansara follows Petaling → Selangor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kuala Lumpur's. Against Kuala Lumpur, Selayang Baru Utara follows Gombak → Selangor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Malaysia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kuala_Lumpur identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kuala Lumpur's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 147 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kuala Lumpur's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1735161, the coordinate pair 3.1412 / 101.6865, country rank 1 of 20, and neighbor GeoNames 1735158 at 9.632 km bind Kuala Lumpur to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kuala Lumpur's reference point is 3.1412° north and 101.6865° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kuala_Lumpur is shared by 19 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Kuala Lumpur's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kuala Lumpur's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kuala Lumpur's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kuala Lumpur, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kuala Lumpur's closest other entries in this atlas are Petaling Jaya (9.632 km), Kota Damansara (11.896 km), Selayang Baru Utara (12.831 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-29; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.