Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia, on the Malay peninsula, as well as on northern Borneo. The country is one of Asia's new tiger economies, having seen great economic and human development during the last decades.
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- Type: Country
- Description: sovereign state in Southeast Asia
- Categories: sovereign state and member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Location: Southeast Asia, Asia
- Languages: Malay (generic), English, Chinese, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi and Thai
- Neighbors: Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand
Latitude of center 3.07° or 3° 4' 12" north | Longitude of center 107.8° or 107° 48' east |
Population 28,300,000 | Elevation 275 metres (902 feet) |
Capital Kuala Lumpur | Area 329,750 km² (127,317 miles²) |
Currency Ringgit (MYR) | Phone code 60 |
Internet domain .my | OpenStreetMap ID node 249399394 |
GeoNames ID 1733045 |
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Malizya
- Achinese: Malaysia
- Adyghe; Adygei: Малайзие
- Afar: Malayziya
- Afrikaans: Maleisië
- Akan: Malaysia
- Akan: Malehyia
- Albanian: Malajzi
- Albanian: Malajzia
- Amharic: ማሌዢያ
- Arabic: Malaysia
- Arabic: ماليزيا
- Aragonese: Malaisia
- Armenian: Մալայզիա
- Armenian: Մալեզիա
- Assamese: মালয়েচিয়া
- Assamese: মালয়েছিয়া
- Asturian; Bable: Malasia
- Atayal: Malaysia
- Awadhi: मलेशिया
- Aymara: Malasya
- Azerbaijani: Malayziya
- Balinese: Malaysia
- Bambara: Malaysia
- Bambara: Malɛzi
- Banjar: Malaysia
- Bashkir: Малайзия
- Bashkir: Малайя
- Basque: Malasia
- Basque: Malaysia
- Bavarian: Malaysia
- Belarusian: Малайзія
- Bengali: মালয়েশিয়া
- Bengali: মাল্যাশিয়া
- Bhojpuri: मलेशिया
- Bihari : मलेशिया
- Bishnupriya: মালয়েশিয়া
- Bislama: Malaysia
- Bosnian: Malezija
- Brahui: Maleşíá
- Breton: Malaysia
- Buginese: Malaysia
- Buginese: ᨆᨒᨕᨗᨔᨗᨕ
- Bulgarian: Малайзия
- Burmese: မလေးရှား
- Burmese: မလေးရှားနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Malàisia
- Cebuano: Malasya
- Cebuano: Malaysia
- Cebuano: Malaysiya
- Central Bicolano: Malasya
- Central Dusun: Malaysia
- Central Kurdish: مالیزیا
- Chamorro: Malaysia
- Chavacano: Malasia
- Chechen: Малайзи
- Cherokee: ᎹᎴᏏᎢᎠ
- Chichewa; Nyanja: Malaysia
- Chinese: Má-lâi-se-a
- Chinese: Mǎláixīyà
- Chinese: 大馬
- Chinese: 大马
- Chinese: 馬來西亞
- Chinese: 馬國
- Chinese: 马国
- Chinese: 马来西亚
- Chinese: 马来西亚联邦
- Chuvash: Малайзи
- Cornish: Malaysi
- Corsican: Malaysia
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Malayziya
- Croatian: Malezija
- Czech: Malajsie
- Danish: Malaysia
- Dimli: Malêzya
- Divehi: މެލޭޝިޔާ
- Dutch: MY
- Dutch: MYS
- Dutch: Maleisie
- Dutch: Maleisië
- Dzongkha: མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ
- Dzongkha: མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ་
- Eastern Mari: Малайзий
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: ماليزيا
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Malægsia
- English: Federation of Malaysia
- English: MAS
- English: MYS
- English: Malaysia Federation
- English: my
- English: 🇲🇾
- Esperanto: Federacio Malajzio
- Esperanto: MAS
- Esperanto: MY
- Esperanto: MYS
- Esperanto: Malajzia Federacio
- Esperanto: Malajzio
- Esperanto: 🇲🇾
- Estonian: Malaisia
- Ewe: Malaysia nutome
- Extremaduran: Malásia
- Faroese: Malaisia
- Faroese: Maleisia
- Fijian: Malaysia
- Fijian: Malesia
- Fijian Hindustani: Malaysia
- Finnish: Malesia
- Franco-Provençal: Malèsie
- French: Fédération de Malaisie
- French: Fédération malaise
- French: MAS
- French: MY
- French: MYS
- French: Malaisie
- French: my
- Frisian: Maleisië
- Frisian: Maleizje
- Fulah: Malaysiya
- Fulah: Malesii
- Gaelic (Scots): Malaidhsea
- Gaelic (Scots): Malaidhsia
- Gaelic (Scots): Malaysia
- Gagauz: Malayziya
- Gallegan: Malaisia - Malaysia
- Gallegan: Malaisia
- Gan Chinese: 馬來西亞
- Ganda: Malezya
- Georgian: მალაიზია
- German: Malaysia
- German: Malaysien
- Goanese Konkani: Malaysia
- Goanese Konkani: मलेशिया
- Gorontalo: Malaysia
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌹𐌰
- Greek: Μαλαισία
- Guarani: Malásia
- Guianese Creole French: Malézi
- Gujarati: મલેશિયા
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Malezi
- Hakka Chinese: Mâ-lòi-sî-â
- Hausa: Malaisia
- Hausa: Malaisiya
- Hausa: Maleziya
- Hausa: Mâ-lòi-sî-â
- Hawaiian: Malaisia
- Hebrew: מלזיה
- Hindi: मलेशिया
- Hungarian: Malajzia
- Hungarian: Malájföld
- Icelandic: Malasía
- Ido: Malaizia
- Igbo: Malaysia
- Iloko: Malaysia
- Inari Sami: Malesia
- Indonesian: Malaysia
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Malaysia
- Interlingue: Malaysia
- Inupiaq: Malaysia
- Irish: An Mhalaeisia
- Irish: an Mhalaeisia
- Italian: MYS
- Italian: Malaisia
- Italian: Malaysia
- Italian: Malesia
- Jamaican Creole English: Malieja
- Japanese: MAS
- Japanese: MYS
- Japanese: my
- Japanese: マレーシア
- Javanese: Malaysia
- Kabardian: Мэлайзиэ
- Kabiyé: Malɛɛzii
- Kabyle: Malizya
- Kalaallisut: Malaysia
- Kalmyk; Oirat: Малаймудин Орн
- Kannada: ಮಲೇಶಿಯ
- Kannada: ಮಲೇಶಿಯಾ
- Kannada: ಮಲೇಸಿಯಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Malayziya
- Kashmiri: مَلیشِیا
- Kashmiri: मलयेशिया
- Kashubian: Malezjô
- Kazakh: Малайзия
- Khmer: ម៉ាឡេស៊ី
- Kikuyu: Malaysia
- Kikuyu: Malesia
- Kinyarwanda: Malesiya
- Kirghiz: Малайзия
- Komi: Малайзия
- Kongo: Malaysia
- Korean: 말레이시아
- Korean: 말레이지아
- Kurdish: Malezya
- Kurdish: مالیزیا
- Ladino: Malasia
- Lao: Malaysia
- Lao: ປະເທດມາເລເຊຍ
- Lao: ມາເລເຊຍ
- Latin: Malaesia
- Latvian: Malaizija
- Letzeburgesch: Malaysia
- Letzeburgesch: Malaysien
- Lezghian: Малайзия
- Ligurian: Malaysia
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Maleisië
- Lingala: Malesí
- Lingala: Malezi
- Lithuanian: Malaizija
- Livvi: Malaizii
- Lojban: mejgu'e
- Lombard: Malaysia
- Low German; Low Saxon: Malaysia
- Luba-Katanga: Malezi
- Macedonian: Малезија
- Madurese: Malaysia
- Maithili: मलेसिया
- Malagasy: Malaizia
- Malagasy: Malezia
- Malay (generic): MAS
- Malay (generic): MYS
- Malay (generic): Malaysia
- Malay (generic): Persekutuan Malaysia
- Malay (generic): my
- Malay (generic): مليسيا
- Malay (generic): ڤرسکوتوان مليسيا
- Malay (generic): 🇲🇾
- Malayalam: മലേഷ്യ
- Maltese: Malasja
- Maltese: Malażja
- Maltese: il-Malasja
- Manipuri: ꯃꯂꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ
- Manx: Yn Valaysia
- Maori: Mareia
- Maori: Mareihia
- Maori: Marēhia
- Marathi: मलेशिया
- Mazanderani: مالزی
- Min Dong Chinese: Mā-lài-să̤-ā
- Min Nan Chinese: Má-lâi-se-a
- Minangkabau: Malaysia
- Mingrelian: მალაიზია
- Mirandese: Malásia
- Mongolian: Малайз
- Mongolian: ꯃꯂꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: ماليزيا
- Nauru: Maraidja
- Ndebele, North: Malezhiya
- Nepali: मलेसिया
- Newari: मलेसिया
- Nias: Malaysia
- Northern Frisian: Malaysia
- Northern Sami: Malaysia
- Northern Sami: Malesia
- Norwegian: Malaysia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Malaysia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Malaysia
- Novial: Malaysia
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Malàisia
- Oriya: ମାଲେସିଆ
- Oromo: Maleeshiyaa
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Малайзи
- Pali: मलयेशिया
- Pampanga: Malasia
- Pampanga: Malaysia
- Pangasinan: Malasia
- Pangasinan: Malaysia
- Panjabi: ਮਲੇਸ਼ੀਆ
- Papiamento: Malasia
- Papiamento: Malaysia
- Persian: مالزی
- Picard: Malajie
- Piemontese: Malaysia
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Melasya
- Polish: Malezja
- Portuguese: Malásia
- Pushto: مالیزیا
- Pushto: مالیزیا هیواد
- Quechua: Malasia
- Quechua: Malasya
- Raeto-Romance: Malaisia
- Romanian: Malaezia
- Romanian: Malaiezia
- Romanian: Malaysia
- Rundi: Maleziya
- Russia Buriat: Малайз
- Russia Buriat: Малайзи
- Russian: Малайзия
- Russian: Федерация Малайзия
- Rusyn: Малайзія
- Samoan: Malesia
- Sango: Malezïi
- Sanskrit: मलयेशिया
- Sanskrit: मलेशिया
- Santali: ᱢᱟᱞᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ
- Sardinian: Malaìsia
- Schwyzerdütsch: Malaysia
- Scots: Malaysie
- Serbian: Malezija
- Serbian: Малезија
- Serbo-Croatian: Malezija
- Shan: မိူင်းမလေးသျႃး
- Shona: Malaysia
- Sicilian: Malesia
- Sindhi: ملائيشيا
- Sinhalese: මලයාසියාව
- Sinhalese: මැලේසියාව
- Skolt Sami: Malesia
- Slovak: Malajzia
- Slovenian: Malezija
- Somali: Malaysiya
- Sorbian, Lower: Malayzija
- Sorbian, Upper: Malajzija
- Sorbian, Upper: Malaysia
- South Azerbaijani: مالزی
- Spanish: MYS
- Spanish: Malasia
- Sranan: Maleysikondre
- Sundanese: Malaysia
- Swahili (generic): Malaysia
- Swahili (generic): Malesia
- Swati: IMaleshiya
- Swedish: MYS
- Swedish: Malaysia
- Tagalog: Malasia
- Tagalog: Malaysia
- Tajik: Малайзия
- Tamil: மலேசியா
- Tamil: மலேஷியா
- Taroko: Malaysia
- Tatar: Малайзия
- Telugu: మలేషియా
- Tetum: Malázia
- Thai: ประเทศมาเลเซีย
- Thai: มาเลเซีย
- Tibetan: མ་ལ་ཤི་ཡ།
- Tibetan: མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ།
- Tigrinya: ማሌዢያ
- Tok Pisin: Malaysia
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Malēsia
- Tosk Albanian: Malaysia
- Tsonga: Malexiya
- Tumbuka: Malaysia
- Tunisian Spoken Arabic: ماليزيا
- Turkish: Malezya
- Turkmen: Malaýziýa
- Twi: Malaysia
- Udmurt: Малайзия
- Uighur: مالايسىيا
- Ukrainian: Малайзія
- Urdu: ملائشیا
- Urdu: ملائیشیا
- Uzbek: Malayziya
- Venetian: Malaysia
- Venetian: Malayzia
- Venetian: Malèxia
- Venetian: Małàiza
- Venetian: Małàzia
- Veps: Malaizii
- Vietnamese: Ma-lay-xi-a
- Vietnamese: Malaysia
- Vietnamese: Mã Lai (Ma-lay-xi-a)
- Vlaams: Maleisië
- Volapük: Malaysiyän
- Waray (Philippines): Malaysia
- Welsh: Malaysia
- Welsh: Maleisia
- Western Balochi: مالیزیا
- Western Panjabi: ملائشیا
- Western Panjabi: ملایشیا
- Wolof: Maleesi
- Wolof: Malesi
- Wu Chinese: 马来西亚
- Yakut: Малайзия
- Yiddish: מאַלייזיע
- Yiddish: מאלייזיע
- Yoruba: Malasia
- Yoruba: Malaysia
- Yue Chinese: 馬來西亞
- Zeeuws: Maleisië
- Zhuang: Majlaizsihya
- Zulu: IMalaysia
- Zulu: i-Malaysia
- Federation of Malaya
- Malaizėjė
- Malezyjo
- Persekutuan Tanah Malaysia
- Persekutuan Tanah Melayu
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