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Malaysia

	Malaysia

Bahasa Malaysia	Malaysia Malaysia ialah sebuah negara persekutuan yang terletak di Asia Tenggara. Malaysia mempunyai dua kawasan utama yang terpisah oleh Laut China Selatan; iaitu Semenanjung Malaysia, bersempadankan Thailand di utara dan Singapura di selatan; dan Malaysia Timur, bahagian utara Pulau Borneo yang bersempadan dengan Indonesia di selatan dan Brunei di utara.
English	Malaysia - Malaysia Malaysia is a federation of thirteen states in Southeast Asia. The country consists of two geographical regions divided by the South China Sea. Peninsular Malaysia (or West Malaysia) on the Malay Peninsula shares a land border on the north with ► Thailand and is connected by the Johor-Singapore Causeway and the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link to the south with ► Singapore. It consists of nine sultanates (Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor and Terengganu), two states headed by governors (Malacca and Penang), and two federal territories (Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur). Malaysian Borneo (or East Malaysia) occupies the northern part of the island of Borneo, bordering ► Indonesia and surrounding the Sultanate of ► Brunei. It has maritime borders with ► Vietnam and ► Mindanao in the ► Philippines and claims the ► Spratly Islands. It consists of the states of Sabah and Sarawak and the federal territory of Labuan. The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation of Malaya (Malay: Persekutuan Tanah Melayu), Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak formed a 14-state federation. Singapore was expelled from the federation in 1965 and subsequently become an independent country.

Short name	Malaysia
Official name	Malaysia
Status	Independent country since 1957 (as Malaya), united since 1963
Location	South East Asia
Capital	Kuala Lumpur
Population	26,909,000 inhabitants
Area	329,847 km²
Major languages	Malay (official), English, Chinese dialects, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Vietnamese
Major religions	Islam (official), Buddhism, Christianity
More information	Malaysia, Geography of Malaysia, History of Malaysia and Politics of Malaysia
More images	Malaysia - Malaysia (Category).

General maps

Further information: Category:Maps of Malaysia

Map of Malaysia

Location of the Malay Peninsula

Location of East Malaysia

Malaysia in the Malay Archipelago

Maps of divisions

This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.

States of Malaysia

Perlis, Malaysia	Kedah, Malaysia	Penang, Malaysia	Perak, Malaysia
Malacca, Malaysia	Kelantan, Malaysia	Selangor, Malaysia

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Malaysia, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Malaysia.

Chola Empire (1050)

Chola Empire

Srivijaya in 1200

British Malaya

British Malaya in 1922

Map of the Japanese Empire (1870-1942)

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.

Indochina in 1886

Notes and references

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