About Putrajaya Putrajaya is a planned built city and the federal administrative center of Malaysia. The city spans an area of almost 5,000 hectares and lies 25 km from Kuala Lumpur. Putrajaya takes over the administrative functions of the capital city Kuala Lumpur in 1999 because of overcrowding and congestion in the capital city. It became Malaysia's third Federal Territory, after Kuala Lumpur and Labuan, in 2001. The seat of government was shifted from Kuala Lumpur to Put