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.
- »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.
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.
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.
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 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.