Definition of "KL"

[T]he Sultan and the Mentri Besar, the British Adviser, the crowd from K.L., God knows how much royalty from all over the Federation.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 159

Kerala (KL) is classified as “high capacity.” In Kerala the grassroots deliberative process was preceded by an important “People's Campaign,” which created effective systems of participatory planning accompanied by significant devolution of funds and power.

1956, Paromita Sanyal, Vijayendra Rao, “Political Construction, State Enactments, and Citizen Performances”, in Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies‎, Cambridge University Press, published 2018, page 66