Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, is the capital city and a federal territory of Malaysia. It is the most populous city in the country, covering an area of 243 km2 with a population of 2,111,536 as of 2026. Greater Kuala Lumpur, which itself includes the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 8.81 million people as of 2024.

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Country: Malaysia
Population: 1,448,000
Latitude: 3.17° N
Longitude: 101.7° E

Which way is Kuala Lumpur from…

From Paris, Kuala Lumpur lies at 81° to the east, 10,422 km as the crow flies.

Paris	81° east	10,422 km
London	79° east	10,544 km
New York	6° north	15,116 km
Madrid	77° east	11,070 km
Rome	88° east	9,706 km
Montreal	6° north	14,583 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	68° east	5,703 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Kuala Lumpur’s antipode lies 329 km from Quito. From London, a flat map would place it south-east, at 119°; the compass says 79°, east, because the 10,544 km shortest route crosses Central Asia, India and the Bay of Bengal. To place Malaysia’s capital, remember it is 318 km north-west of Singapore.