Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in South-Eastern Asia, with its capital at Kuala Lumpur, and is home to roughly 35.6M people.
Its official languages are English, Malay; the currency in circulation is Malaysian ringgit (RM); people from here are called Malaysian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Malaysia is split in two by the South China Sea, between the peninsula and Borneo.
- »Its rainforests are among the oldest in the world, far older than the Amazon.
> BORDERS_
Malaysia touches three neighbours: Brunei to the north, Indonesia to the south and Thailand to the northwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Kuala Lumpur means 'muddy confluence', for the meeting of two rivers where tin prospectors founded it in 1857. Administrative functions have since moved to the purpose-built city of Putrajaya.
> SCALE_
328,363 km² (126,782 sq mi), 66th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Vietnam.
Population 35,557,673, 44th of 198 on file. That averages 108 per km² (280 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The fourteen stripes and the fourteen points of the star stand for the thirteen states and the federal government. The crescent represents Islam, the yellow royalty.