Malacca is 245 km from Singapore and 148 km from Kaula Lumpur. It has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 7th July 2008. The state capital Malacca Town is strategically located between the two national capitals in Malaysia and Singapore and connected with excellent roads and highways.

 

According to a popular legend, when Parameswara stopped under a tree near a river (Malacca river) while hunting, one of his hunting dogs was pushed by a mouse deer when the later was defending herself, the dog fell into the river. Impressed by the courage of the deer, Parameswara took this as a propitious sign of the weak overcoming the powerful and decided to build his new kingdom on that spot naming it Malacca after the tree under which he had been resting.