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Taman Ibukota

neighborhood in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7680625 ↗
Source-derived summary

Taman Ibukota is a Malay majority township in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is a large and rather old neighborhood dating back to the 1970s when Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) workers were given discounted rates to purchase the houses there.

Location

Taman Ibu Kota is located in Setapak, where it falls under the Wangsa Maju parliamentary constituency. It is also located in the Wangsa Maju Administrative Division in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. It is administered by Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.

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“Taman Ibukota” enters the record as neighborhood in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Taman, Ibukota and neighborhood can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Taman Ibukota” 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.