Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur
village in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
Kampung Baru or Kampong Bharu (meaning "New Village") is a Malay enclave and village (kampung) in central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Location
Kampung Baru is located in the northern part of Kuala Lumpur's central business district. It is separated from KLCC district by a section of the Klang River.
Kampung Baru is bordered by Jalan Tun Razak in the north, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman in the west, Jalan Dewan Sultan Sulaiman in the southwest, and the Klang River and the Ampang-KL toll road (E 12) in the southeast.
Clockwise, from north to south, Kampung Baru borders Titiwangsa, Dato' Keramat, Ampang Hilir, KLCC, Medan Tuanku and Chow Kit.
History
Kampung Baru was established in 1899 by a grant from the then-Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Alaeddin Suleiman Shah, to allow the Malays to retain their village lifestyle within the city. It was formally gazetted as the Malay Agricultural Settlement in 1950.
Since then Kampung Baru has held out against development and modern-city living, turning into a political symbol of Malay culture.
The area held a special place for Malay politics during the pro-independence movement that grew up after World War II. Kampung Baru is home to the Sultan Sulaiman Club (3°9′41.35″N 101°42′3.75″E), where anti-colonial political gatherings were often held, including those that led to the formation of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysia's ruling party since independence until 2018, and then again since 2021. Documents dating back to the period were unearthed at the grounds of the Club several years ago.
“Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur” enters the record as village in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kampung, Baru and Kuala can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kampung, Baru and Kuala provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3045579. Authority coordinates are 3.164, 101.708. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1899, 1950, 2018 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.