Interesting facts about Kuala Lumpur Is a great opportunity to learn more about the capitals of Asia. A hot and humid climate prevails in the city throughout the year.
So, here are the most interesting facts about Kuala Lumpur.
- Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, was founded in 1857.
- As of today, over 1.8 million inhabitants live here, where 7427 people per 1 km².
- Traffic jams in Kuala Lumpur are as big as in Moscow (see interesting facts about Moscow).
- Due to the high humidity in the capital, there is almost never dust here.
- Monorail trains run in the center of Kuala Lumpur. They have no drivers, since they are controlled by a computer and operators.
- Every 5th resident of Kuala Lumpur is from China.
- An interesting fact is that Kuala Lumpur is in the TOP 10 most visited cities in the world.
- Despite the rapid deforestation of the state, the Kuala Lumpur authorities are constantly greening the city. For this reason, there are many parks and other recreation areas.
- On the streets of the Malaysian capital, wild monkeys are often found, which usually do not differ in any aggression.
- Kuala Lumpur is home to one of the largest bird parks on the planet.
- Did you know that local rivers are so heavily polluted that no fish or marine animals live in them?
- There are skyscrapers without windows in Kuala Lumpur. Obviously, in this way the architects wanted to protect the premises from the hot sun.
- Kuala Lumpur is one of the most cosmopolitan Asian cities (see interesting facts about cities in the world).
- Throughout the history of observation, the absolute temperature minimum in Kuala Lumpur was +17.8 ⁰С.
- Kuala Lumpur receives about 9 million tourists annually.
- As of 2010, 46% of the population of Kuala Lumpur professed Islam, 36% - Buddhism, 8.5% - Hinduism and 5.8% - Christianity.
- The word "Kuala Lumpur" in translation from Malay means - "dirty mouth".
