Malaysia

Malaysia

sovereign state, member states of ASEAN, country, federation

Part of	Southeast Asia
Inception	16 September 1963
Official name	Malaysia
Native label	Malaysia
Short name	🇲🇾, MYS, MYS
Participant in	ASEAN cable system, Asian Highway Network
Official language	Malay
Anthem	Negaraku
Culture	culture of Malaysia
Motto text	Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu, برسکوتو برتمبه موتو
Continent	Asia
Kontri	Malaysia
Capital	Kuala Lumpur
Located in time zone	UTC+08:00, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Located in/on physical feature	Malay Peninsula, Borneo
Coordinate location	3°46′50″N 102°18′52″E
Coordinates of easternmost point	5°13′58″N 119°16′9″E
Coordinates of northernmost point	7°22′47″N 117°14′5″E
Coordinates of southernmost point	0°51′14″N 110°34′34″E
Coordinates of westernmost point	5°41′5″N 98°56′14″E
Highest point	Mount Kota Kinabalu
Lowest point	Indian Ocean
Basic form of government	constitutional monarchy, federal monarchy, elective monarchy, parliamentary monarchy
Office held by head of state	Yang di-Pertuan Agong
Head of state	Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor
Office held by head of government	Prime Minister of Malaysia
Head of government	Anwar Ibrahim
Executive body	Cabinet of Malaysia
Legislative body	Parliament of Malaysia
Highest judicial authority	Federal Court of Malaysia
Central bank	Bank Negara Malaysia
Currency	Malaysian ringgit
Shares border with	Thailand, Brunei, Indonishia, Singapore, Philippines
Driving side	left
Electrical plug type	BS 1363
Replaces	Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Crown Colony of Sarawak
Official website	https://www.malaysia.travel/en/us, https://www.malaysia.gov.my
Described at URL	http://68k.news/index.php?section=nation&loc=MY&lang=MS
Top-level Internet domain	.my
Flag	Flag of Malaysia
Coat of arms	coat of arms of Malaysia
Foods traditionally associated	nasi lemak
Geography of topic	geography of Malaysia
Has characteristic	partly free country
History of topic	history of Malaysia
Official religion	Islam
Railway traffic side	left
Open data portal	data.gov.my
Economy of topic	economy of Malaysia
Demographics of topic	demographics of Malaysia
WordLift URL	http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/malaysia
Mobile country code	502
Country calling code	+60
Trunk prefix	0
Emergency phone number	999
GS1 country code	955
Licence plate code	MAL
Maritime identification digits	533
Unicode character	🇲🇾
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Malaysia

Malaysia bi wan kontri for Sauteas Asia. Di federal konstitushonal monaki konsis of 13 states and tri federal teritoris, wey di Saut Chaina Sea separaet into tuw rejions: Peninsula Malaysia and Eas Malaysia of Borneo. Peninsula Malaysia dey shia land and maritaim boda wit Tailand and maritaim boda wit Singapo, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Eas Malaysia dey shia land and maritaim boda wit Brunei and Indonesia, as wel as maritaim boda wit di Filipins and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur bi di nachonal kapital, di lajes citi, and di seat of di lejislaetiv branch of di federal govment. Putrajaya bi di administraetiv centa, wey dey represent di seat of both di exekutiv branch (di Kabinet, federal ministris, and federal ajencis) and di judicial branch of di federal govment. Wit a populaeshon of ova 33 milion, di kontri bi di 43rd-mos populous kontri for di wold. Malaysia dey tropikal and bi wan of 17 megadaivas kontris; E bi hom to numerous endemik specis. Tanjung Piai for di Malaysian state of Johor bi di sautanmos point of kontinental Eurasia.

Di kontri get e orijin for di Malay kindums, wey, from di 18th centuri on, bikom subjet to di British Empaia, along wit di British Straits Setulments protetoraet. Durin Wold Wor Tuw, di Empaia of Japan been okupai British Malaya, along wit oda niabai British and Amerikan kolonis. Afta tri years of okupaeshon, Peninsula Malaysia kom unifai as di Malayan Union for 1946 and then restrukchor as di Federaeshon of Malaya for 1948. Di kontri achiv independens on 31 August 1957. On 16 Septemba 1963, independent Malaya unait wit di then British krawn kolonis of Nort Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapo to bikom Malaysia. For Augus 1965, Singapo kom dey expeld from di federaeshon and bikom a separaet, independent kontri.

Di kontri dey multietnik and multikolchoral, wey get signifikant efet for e politis.

Abaut haf of di populaeshon bi etnikali Malay, wit mainoritis of Chainis, Indians, and indijenous pipos. Di ofishal langwej bi Malaysian Malay, a standad fom of di Malay langwej. English stil bi an ativ sekond langwej. While Islam dey rekognaizd as di ofishal relijion, di konstitushon dey grant freedom of relijion to non-Muslims. Di govment dey modeld on di Wesminsta paliamentri system, and di legal system dey bayzd on komon law. Di head of state bi an eleted monak, wey dey chosen from among di nain state sultans evri faiv years. Di head of govment bi di praim minista.