Night cityscape, Kuala Lumpur
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From super-tiny to supertall
Nested in a valley surrounded by deep rainforest, Kuala Lumpur's dense cityscape only sprang up in the last century or so. Early photographs of the location, dating to the late 1800s, reveal a modest town of thatched attap dwellings, along with a few British colonial buildings in Mughal and Moorish styles. But since Malaysia gained independence in 1957, the capital has earned fame for the high-rising stars of this sparkling shot: its skyscrapers, which number in the hundreds and include supertall structures like Petronas Towers and Merdeka 118.
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