Ampang

Ampang Jaya, extra commonly called just Ampang, is a city, a mukim and a parliamentary constituency in Hulu Langat District and elements of Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia. It borders a district within Kuala Lumpur additionally known as Ampang. It is run through the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council, which is the formal name of the township itself as properly. The member of parliament for Ampang is Zuraida Kamaruddin, who is the present day Minister of Housing and Local Government of Malaysia. According to the history, Kuala Lumpur became based in 1857 at the confluence of the Sungei Lumpur and the Klang River, which now houses the Kuala Lumpur Jamek Mosque.

Before the appearance of the Chinese humans for tin mining, Kuala Lumpur changed into just a small hamlet with only some houses and a shop or two. Raja Abdullah, who is also the representative of the Sultan in Klang, and Raja Juma'at of Lukut sent 87 Chinese miners from Lukut in 1857 to open tin mines in Ampang, as a result commenced the development of Kuala Lumpur. Ampang become one of the earliest areas in the Klang Valley to be opened for tin mining. The name "Ampang" approach "dam" in Malay and the area was named in connection with the miners' dams. A avenue was built to attach Ampang to Kuala Lumpur which fashioned the Jalan Ampang of today.