Kuala Lumpur through 410 million years

Kuala Lumpur lay at 7° south, the latitude of Dar es Salaam today.

Farthest south.

Kuala Lumpur lay at 49° south.

The first dinosaurs

Kuala Lumpur lay at 7° south, the latitude of Dar es Salaam today.

The great extinction

Kuala Lumpur lay at 6° north, the latitude of Accra today.

Homo sapiens

Kuala Lumpur lay at 3° north, its latitude today.

Kuala Lumpur today.

3° north. In 410 million years the plates have carried it some 23,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 7° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest south: 49° south; 280 million years ago
Farthest north: 27° north; 190 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 230 million years ago
Distance travelled: 23,000 kilometres; 410 million years

other places

Positions come from the plate model of Merdith and colleagues (2021), through the GPlates Web Service of the EarthByte Group at the University of Sydney. The globe shows today's coastlines carried back with their plates, not the shorelines of the time, so it does not say whether a place was land or sea. Cities and their coordinates come from Wikidata.