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All persons living in private living quarters, collective living quarters such as college or university hostels, charitable or social welfare institutions, prisons, and shelters for homeless persons; were enumerated based on their usual place of residence in Malaysia on the Census Day that is 6 July 2010.
As of Census 2010, it covered all persons including non-citizens who had stayed or intended to stay in Malaysia for more than six months in the year 2010. This includes: Persons commuting across the Malaysian border (e.g. Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Indonesia) for work or study but maintaining usual residence within Malaysia;
If the ground floor include living spaces (usually located at the back), it may be used as reception, guestrooms, and formal family rooms with ancestor altars. [ citation needed ] As the settlement prospered and population increased, some front shops were put to professional uses such as clinics, drugstores, law offices, pawnshops, travel agencies.
The migration of Indonesian to Malaysia can be traced back since before the colonial time especially during the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires. Interracial marriages between Sultanates such as between Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca and the Princess Raden Galuh Chandra Kirana of Majapahit are stated in the Malay Annals . [ 3 ]
Malaysia contains speakers of 137 living languages, [60] 41 of which are found in Peninsula Malaysia. [61] The official language of Malaysia is known as Bahasa Malaysia, a standardised form of the Malay language. [37] English was, for a protracted period, the de facto, administrative language of Malaysia, though its status was later rescinded.
Architecture in Malaysia traditionally consist of malay vernacular architecture. Though modern contemporary architecture is prevalent in urban areas there are style influences from Islamic, colonial architecture, chinese straits etc. [1] New materials, such as glasses and nails, were brought in by Europeans, changing the architecture.
Malaysia is the world's 23rd-largest exporter and 25th-largest importer. [213] [214] However, economic inequalities exist between different ethnic groups. [215] The Chinese make up about one-quarter of the population, but account for 70 per cent of the country's market capitalisation. [216]
Kuala Lumpur grew from a small settlement to become Malaysia's biggest city in the 20th century. Kuala Lumpur was only 0.65 km 2 in 1895, but it expanded to 20 km 2 in 1903, and by the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 km 2 , and then after independence to 243 km 2 in 1974 as a Federal Territory .