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====City, Federal Territory, Greater Kuala Lumpur====
[[File:Kuala Lumpur skyline in the 1980s.jpg|thumb|220px|Kuala Lumpur cityscape in the 1980s before [[Kuala Lumpur City Centre|KLCC]] was created. The [[Selangor Turf Club|race track]] in the foreground was replaced by the [[Petronas Tower]] and [[KLCC Park]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://says.com/my/lifestyle/photos-klcc-site-was-once-occupied-by-a-horse-racing-track |title=Did You Know: The Petronas Twin Towers Site Was Once A Horse Racing Track|first= Tamara |last=Jayne |date= 3 July 2020|work=Says }}</ref>]]
Kuala Lumpur achieved [[Cities of Malaysia|city status]] on 1 February 1972,<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://travel.tourism.gov.my/consumer/destinations/history.asp?state=kl|title=Destinations: Kuala Lumpur|publisher=Tourism Malaysia|access-date=16 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102232810/http://travel.tourism.gov.my/consumer/destinations/history.asp?state=kl|archive-date=2 January 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> becoming the first settlement in Malaysia to be granted the status after independence. Later, on 1 February 1974, Kuala Lumpur became a [[Federal territories (Malaysia)|federal territory]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-KualaLum.html|title=Kuala Lumpur|encyclopedia=Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|access-date=6 December 2007|archive-date=28 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228003338/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-KualaLum.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The territory of Kuala Lumpur expanded to 96 square miles by absorbing the surrounding areas. Kuala Lumpur was ceded by [[Selangor]] to be directly controlled by the [[Government of Malaysia|central government]], and it ceased to be capital of Selangor in 1978 after the city of [[Shah Alam]] was declared the new state capital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mbsa.gov.my/mbsa/shah%20alam/sejarah.htm|title=Sejarah Shah Alam|language=ms|publisher=Shah Alam City Council|access-date=14 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060306111920/http://www.mbsa.gov.my/mbsa/shah%20alam/sejarah.htm|archive-date=6 March 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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