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The capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population stands at over 32 million. [1] The country is separated into two regions—Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo—by the South China Sea. [1] Malaysia borders Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, [1] and Vietnam.
Topographic map of Malaysia; Mount Kinabalu is the highest summit in the country. Malaysia is the 66th largest country by total land area, with a total area of 330,803 km 2 (127,724 sq mi). [9] It has land borders with Thailand in West Malaysia, and Indonesia and Brunei in East Malaysia. [21] It is linked to Singapore by a narrow causeway and a ...
Flag Date Use Description 1997 – Flag of Hong Kong: A stylised, white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana flower in the centre of a red field [1]: 1999 – Flag of Macau: Peacock green field with a lotus flower above the stylised Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge and water in white, beneath an arc of five golden five-pointed stars, where the large star is in the center flanked by four smaller ...
The flag of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is blue with the emblem of the organisation in the center. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is an international organization. In August 1967, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines formed the ASEAN. At that time, communism was growing in Vietnam, and ...
Indonesia spans both areas, but is ordinarily considered to be an Asian country. [1] East Timor is sometimes considered to be part of Australasia or Melanesia, but due to its being surrounded by Indonesia, and its once being politically part of Indonesia, it is generally considered to be in Southeast Asia.
Malaysia has agreements to delimit the continental shelf, territorial sea and other border delimitation agreements or treaties with Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Malaysia has also unilaterally declared its maritime boundaries through a 1979 map published by its Department of Mapping and Survey.
By population, Islam is the most practised faith with approximately 240 million adherents, or about 40% of the entire population, concentrated in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Southern Thailand and in the Southern Philippines. Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.