2595) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: "50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Capital City - 1972-2022)": Bank Negara Malaysia has issued 10 Ringgit (Silver) and 1 Ringgit (Nordic Gold -Aluminium-Bronze) Commemorative Coins to mark the occasion: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2022:
The Bank Negara Malaysia has brought out 10 Ringgit Silver Proof and 1 Ringgit Aluminium-Bronze Commemorative Coins, which celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur.
The Header/Banner shows the Obverse and Reverse of the 10 Ringgit Silver and 1 Ringgit Nordic Gold Coins against a Background representation of towering buildings in Kuala Lumpur
About Kuala Lumpur City (1972-2022):
Kuala Lumpur city, the capital of Malaysia is located in west-central Peninsular (West) Malaysia, midway along the west coast tin and rubber belt and about 25 miles (40 km) east of its ocean port, Port Kelang, on the Strait of Malacca.
It is the country’s largest urban area and its cultural, commercial, and transportation centre.
In 1972 Kuala Lumpur was designated a municipality, and in 1974 this entity and adjacent portions of surrounding Selangor state became a federal territory.
The Evolution of the City:
The origin of Kuala Lumpur dates back to 1857, when a group of 87 Chinese tin miners founded a settlement at what is now the suburb of Ampang.
Strategically commanding both river valleys, the community flourished as a tin-collecting centre despite its malaria-infested jungle location.
In 1880, Kuala Lumpur superseded Klang (now Kelang) as the state capital, and its rapid growth took place thereafter, with the construction on the Klang–Kuala Lumpur Railway.
In 1895, the city’s central position led to its choice as capital of the Federated Malay States.
From 1942 to 1945 the city was occupied by the Japanese in World War II.
Its population greatly increased in the postwar years during a long (1948–60) communist-led guerrilla insurgency, and under a resettlement program new villages were established on the city’s outskirts.
In 1957, Kuala Lumpur became the capital of the independent Federation of Malaya and of Malaysia in 1963.
Growth continued, spurred by industrial development; the population reached a half million in the mid-1960s and passed one million in the early 1980s.
Population growth brought increased congestion, however, which, with Malaysian government offices scattered across the city, hampered administration.
Consequently, many of the federal offices were moved to the new city of "Putrajaya", about 15 miles (25 km) South of Kuala Lumpur, about the turn of the 21st century. Putrajaya subsequently became the country’s administrative centre, while Kuala Lumpur remained the capital.
The city comprises a mixture of modern and traditional architecture; such structures as glass-and-concrete skyscrapers, elegant mosques, Chinese shop-houses (family-operated shops with the business on the ground floor and the family’s living space upstairs), squatters’ huts, and Malay stilt kampungs (“villages”) betray Western, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and local influences.
We visited Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya during our trip to Malaysia in 2006.
The Commemorative Coins:
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