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Kota Gelanggi is a limestone cave complex in Jerantut, Pahang, Malaysia. It is also claimed to be the name of a 'lost city' in Johor but authorities have found no evidence to support this claim.
Speculation on the Johor site was published in a 2004 paper entitled The "Lost City" of Kota Gelanggi JMBRAS, Vol. 77 Pt. 2, pp. 27–58. by Raimy Che-Ross, an independent researcher. The paper received wide coverage in the Malaysian media. In 2006, Khalid Syed Ali, Curator of Archaeology in the Department's Research and Development Division, said a team of government appointed researchers had carried out a month-long 'study' in July 2005 but found no trace of the "Lost City". Khalid later added that the department does not categorically deny that it exists, only that research carried out until now had not found any evidence of its existence.Azahari Ibrahim, Kota Purba Linggiu: Antara Realiti dan Ilusi, Sejarah Malaysia ( Malaysian History), July–August 2006, p. 37.
Three elder Orang Asli headmen from the Linggiu Dam area nonetheless insist that the city exists; according to Tuk Batin Abdul Rahman (85), "the city is very large, I have seen it myself because it was located near my village. I estimate its fort to be approximately forty feet square, with three holes like windows along its walls", adding that the area was formerly his home and that of fifty other Orang Asli families, before they were moved out by the British due to the Communist threat in the late 1940s–50s. He further said that he had first stumbled across the fort in the 1930s, while foraging for jungle produce. Tuk Batin Abdul Rahman's statements were independently verified by Tuk Batin Daud, 60 and Tuk Batin Adong, 58, who added that their people had visited the site on numerous previous occasions and had seen the black stone walls themselves.(In Malay) Amad Bahri Mardi, Kota Gelanggi hanya wujud pada nama, Berita Harian, Sunday, 20 February 2005, p. 18.
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