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Singapore was a Malaysian state from the formation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963 until it was expelled from the Federation on 9 August 1965. During its time as a state of Malaysia, Singapore had autonomy in the areas of education and labour and was the smallest state in Malaysia by land area, but the largest by population. [25]
The name Malaysia is a combination of the word Malays and the Latin-Greek suffix -ia/-ία [20] which can be translated as 'land of the Malays'. [21] Similar-sounding variants have also appeared in accounts older than the 11th century, as toponyms for areas in Sumatra or referring to a larger region around the Strait of Malacca. [22]
Peninsular Malaysia, [a] historically known as Malaya, [b] also known as West Malaysia or the "Malaysian Peninsula", [c] is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the nearby islands. [1]
Divisions (Malay: bahagian) are the primary subdivisions of Sabah and Sarawak, the states in East Malaysia.Each division is subdivided into districts (daerah) — this is different in Peninsular Malaysia whereby districts are generally the primary subdivisions of a state.
Malaysia designates all populated regions into three categories: a district, municipality, or city. While district boundaries are limited to individual state-drawn district boundaries, some municipalities and cities are made up of several smaller component districts whose elevated status forms a local government.
The Kangar-Pattani floristic boundary crosses the peninsula in southern Thailand and northernmost Malaysia, marking the boundary between the large biogeographic regions of Indochina to the north and Sundaland and Malesia to the south. The forests north of the boundary are characterized by seasonally-deciduous trees, while the Sundaland forests ...
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Regions of Malaysia. See also subdivisions of Malaysia, and States and territories of Malaysia Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of ...