Kota Bharu

Kota Bharu is a city in Malaysia that fills in as the state capital and regal seat of Kelantan. It is likewise the name of the domain jajahan or region in which Kota Bharu City is arranged. The name signifies 'new city' or 'new chateau/fortress' in Malay. The northeastern Malaysian city is near the Thailand outskirt. Kota Bharu is home to numerous mosques, different exhibition halls, the one of a kind design of the old regal royal residences still involved by the sultan and sultanah and beyond reach to guests yet perceptible from outside and previous regal structures which can be visited in the focal point of town.

The City is served by Keretapi Tanah Melayu's East Coast Line at the close-by Wakaf Bharu Terminal Station, in the town of Wakaf Bharu over the Kelantan River and Sultan Ismail Petra Airport, situated in Pengkalan Chepa. Kota Bharu was established amid the late nineteenth century. Prior to the foundation, Kota Bharu was home to Kelantan's Royal Palace, at that point set up by Sultan Muhammad II of Kelantan in 1844 as Kelantan's state capital who needed the new state capital inherent his respect. Preceding this, Kota Bharu was known as Kuala Kelantan. Before Kota Bharu expected the job, the Kelantanese capital was partitioned into two which were Kota Kubang Labu and Kota Pengkalan Datu.