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The Hatter's Castle bungalow's design is influenced by Edward Valentine John Carey, the founder of the island and palm oil plantation, while its name is inspired by a novel of the same title by Scottish author A.J. Cronin. The first occupants of the house were Danish engineer C.L. Gjorup, who built the bungalow and moved in on 1 January 1923 ...
In India, the term bungalow or villa refers to any single-family unit, as opposed to an apartment building, which is the norm for Indian middle-class city living. The normal custom for an Indian bungalow is one storey, [ 11 ] but as time progressed many families built larger two-storey houses to accommodate humans and pets.
Bungalow is a common term applied to a low one-story house with a shallow-pitched roof (in some locations, dormered varieties are referred to as 1.5-story, such as the chalet bungalow in the United Kingdom).
The 50-storey skyscraper holds the distinction of being the first building over 200 m (656 ft) in Kuala Lumpur and at the time of its completion in 1987, the building was the third-tallest building in Asia and the world outside of North America, after the Overseas Union Bank Centre in Singapore and the 63 Building in Seoul, South Korea.
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In 1985, the 65-storey Komtar in George Town became the first skyscraper to exceed 200 metres (656 ft) in height. [7] The Petronas Towers, a pair of 88-storey supertall skyscrapers located in the Kuala Lumpur City Centre, were the tallest skyscrapers in the world from 1998 to 2004, and remains the tallest twin skyscrapers in the world as of ...
as the City of Kuala Lumpur: 1,982,112 [4] Ipoh City of Ipoh Bandaraya Ipoh Perak. Kinta District; Ipoh City Council Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh: 27 May 1988 by Azlan Shah of Perak, 34th Sultan of Perak, as the City of Ipoh: 759,952 [5] Kuching City of Kuching Bandaraya Kuching Sarawak. Kuching Division; Commission of Kuching North City Hall
The Malaysian Census in 2020 reported the population of Johor Bahru as 858,118, making it the largest state capital city in Malaysia by population. [73] It also forms the capital of Johor Bahru District, which includes Iskandar Puteri and Pasir Gudang, and is the second largest district in Malaysia with a population of 1.8 million, as of 2023. [74]