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The Malay Peninsula [a] is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia , Southern Thailand , and the southernmost tip of Myanmar ( Kawthaung ).
The ancient Indian text Vayu Purana also mentions a place named Malayadvipa; this term may refer to Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. [54] The Malay Peninsula was shown on Ptolemy's map as the Golden Chersonese. [55] Trade relations with China and India were established in the 1st century BC. [56]
Details from Nicolaus Germanus's 1467 copy of a map from Ptolemy's Geography, showing the Golden Chersonese, i.e. the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia in the modern world. The horizontal line represents the Equator, which is misplaced too far north due to its being calculated from the Tropic of Cancer using the Ptolemaic degree, which is only five-sixths of a true degree.
The community played an important role in the history of Islam in South Africa, and its culinary culture is an integral part of South African cuisine. Malays helped to develop Afrikaans as a written language, initially using an Arabic script. "Malay" was legally a subcategory of the Coloured racial group during the apartheid era.
The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in Northeast Africa that juts into the Guardafui Channel, and is the easternmost projection of the African continent. It denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Buri Peninsula, Eritrea; Ras Hafun, Somalia
Malesia was first identified as a floristic region that included the Malay Peninsula, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, [1] based on a shared tropical flora derived mostly from Asia but also with numerous elements of the Antarctic flora, including many species in the southern conifer families Podocarpaceae and Araucariaceae.
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]
Part of Mao Kun map showing passage through the Strait of Malacca. The map is thought by sinologist J.J.L. Duyvendak to have been part of the library of Mao Kun, a collector of military and naval material, who might have acquired it while he was the governor of Fujian. [3]