The Modern Capital · event 5 of 9

1999

The government moves out. The federal administration relocates to Putrajaya, a capital built from nothing on a rubber plantation, while parliament and the palace stay in Kuala Lumpur.

The The Modern Capital era

  1. 1974
  2. 1990
  3. 1996
  4. 1998
  5. 1999
  6. 2017
  7. 2018
  8. 2020
  9. 2024

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