Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in , on the Malay Peninsula, as well as on northern . The country is one of Asia's tiger economies, having seen great economic and human development during the last several decades.

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, called KL by locals, is Malaysia's federal capital and largest city at 6.5 million.
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Malaysia

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Latitude of center
3.07° or 3° 4′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
107.8° or 107° 48′ east
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Malaysia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Малаизиа”
  • Achinese: “Malaysia”
  • Adyghe: “Малайзие”
  • Afrikaans: “Maleisië”
  • Akan: “Malehyia”
  • Albanian: “Malajzi”
  • Albanian: “Malajzia”
  • Amharic: “ማሌዢያ”
  • Amis: “Malaysia”
  • Angika: “मलेशिया”
  • Arabic: “ماليزيا”
  • Aragonese: “Malaisia”
  • Armenian: “Մալայզիա”
  • Arpitan: “Malèsia”
  • Arpitan: “Malèsie”
  • Assamese: “মালয়েচিয়া”
  • Assamese: “মালয়েছিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Malasia”
  • Atayal: “Malaysia”
  • Awadhi: “मलेशिया”
  • Aymara: “Malasya”
  • Azerbaijani: “malayziya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Malayziya”
  • Balinese: “Malaysia”
  • Bambara: “Malaysia”
  • Bambara: “Malɛzi”
  • Banjar: “Malaysia”
  • Bashkir: “Малайзия”
  • Bashkir: “Малайя”
  • Basque: “Malasia”
  • Basque: “Malaysia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Malaysia”
  • Batak Toba: “Malaisia”
  • Bavarian: “Malaysia”
  • Belarusian: “Малайзійская фэдэрацыя”
  • Belarusian: “Малайзія”
  • Belarusian: “Фэдэрацыя Малайзія”
  • Bengali: “মালয়েশিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মাল্যাশিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Malésia”
  • Bhojpuri: “मलेशिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “মালয়েশিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Malaysia”
  • Bislama: “Malesia”
  • Bosnian: “Malezija”
  • Brahui: “Maleşíá”
  • Breton: “Malaysia”
  • Buginese: “Malaisia”
  • Buginese: “Malaisiya”
  • Buginese: “Malaysia”
  • Buginese: “Malésa”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨕᨗᨔᨗᨐ”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨕᨗᨔᨗᨕ”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨙᨔ”
  • Bulgarian: “Малайзия”
  • Burmese: “မလေးရှား”
  • Burmese: “မလေးရှားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Malàisia”
  • Cebuano: “Malasya”
  • Cebuano: “Malaysiya”
  • Central Bikol: “Malasya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Malasia”
  • Central Kurdish: “مالیزیا”
  • Chamorro: “Malaysia”
  • Chavacano: “Malasia”
  • Chechen: “Малайзи”
  • Cherokee: “ᎹᎴᏏᎢᎠ”
  • 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 Tatar: “Malayziya”
  • Croatian: “Malezija”
  • Czech: “Malajsie”
  • Dagbani: “Malaysia”
  • Danish: “Malaysia”
  • Dhivehi: “މެލޭޝިޔާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Malêzya”
  • Dotyali: “मलेशिया”
  • Dotyali: “मलेसिया”
  • Dutch: “Maleisie”
  • Dutch: “Maleisië”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ་”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Малайзий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماليزيا”
  • Esperanto: “Federacio Malajzio”
  • Esperanto: “Malajzia Federacio”
  • Esperanto: “Malajzio”
  • Estonian: “Malaisia”
  • Ewe: “Malaysia nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Malasia”
  • Extremaduran: “Malásia”
  • Faroese: “Malaisia”
  • Faroese: “Maleisia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Malaysia”
  • Fijian: “Malesia”
  • Finnish: “Malesia”
  • French: “Fédération de Malaisie”
  • French: “Fédération malaise”
  • French: “Malaisie”
  • Fulah: “Malaysiya”
  • Fulah: “Malesii”
  • Gagauz: “Malayziya”
  • Galician: “Malaisia”
  • Gan Chinese: “馬來西亞”
  • Ganda: “Malezya”
  • Georgian: “მალაიზია”
  • German: “Malaysia”
  • German: “Malaysien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Malaysia”
  • Gilaki: “مالزي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Malaysia”
  • Goan Konkani: “मलेशिया”
  • Gorontalo: “Malaysia”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌹𐌰”
  • Greek: “Μαλαισία”
  • Guarani: “Malásia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Malézi”
  • Gujarati: “મલેશિયા”
  • Haitian: “Malezi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mâ-lòi-sî-â”
  • Hausa: “Malaisiya”
  • Hausa: “Maleshiya”
  • Hausa: “Maleziya”
  • Hawaiian: “Malaisia”
  • Hebrew: “מלזיה”
  • Hindi: “मलेशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Malájföld”
  • Hungarian: “Malajzia”
  • Iban: “Malaysia”
  • Icelandic: “Malasía”
  • Ido: “Malaizia”
  • Igbo: “Malaysia”
  • Iloko: “Malaysia”
  • Inari Sami: “Malesia”
  • Indonesian: “Federasi Malaysia”
  • Indonesian: “Malaysia”
  • Interlingua: “Malaysia”
  • Interlingue: “Malaysia”
  • Inupiaq: “Malaisia”
  • Inupiaq: “Malaysia”
  • Irish: “an Mhalaeisia”
  • Irish: “An Mhalaeisia”
  • Italian: “Malaisia”
  • Italian: “Malaysia”
  • Italian: “Malesia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Malieja”
  • Japanese: “マレーシア”
  • Javanese: “Malaysia”
  • Kabardian: “Мэлайзиэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Malɛɛzii”
  • Kabyle: “Malizya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Malaysia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Malaysia”
  • Kalmyk: “Малаймудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಲೇಶಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಲೇಶಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಲೇಸಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Malayziya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Малайзия”
  • Kashmiri: “ملیشیا”
  • Kashmiri: “مَلیشِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “मलयेशिया”
  • Kashubian: “Malezjô”
  • Kazakh: “Малайзия”
  • Khmer: “ប្រទេសម៉ាឡេស៊ី”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាឡេស៊ី”
  • Khmer: “សហព័ន្ធម៉ាឡេស៊ី”
  • Kikuyu: “Malaysia”
  • Kikuyu: “Malesia”
  • Kinaray-A: “Malasya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Malesiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Малайзия”
  • Komering: “Malaysia”
  • Komering: “Malaysiya”
  • Komi: “Малайзия”
  • Kongo: “Malaysia”
  • Korean: “말레이시아”
  • Korean: “말레이지아”
  • Kurdish: “Malezya”
  • Kurdish: “مالیزیا”
  • Ladin: “Malaisia”
  • Ladino: “Malasia”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດມາເລເຊຍ”
  • Lao: “ມາເລເຊຍ”
  • Latin: “Malaesia”
  • Latvian: “Malaizija”
  • Lezghian: “Малайзия”
  • Ligurian: “Malaysia”
  • Limburgan: “Maleisië”
  • Lingala: “Malesí”
  • Lingala: “Malezi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Malaisia”
  • Literary Chinese: “馬來西亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Malaizija”
  • Livvi: “Malaizii”
  • Lojban: “mejgu’e”
  • Lombard: “Malaysia”
  • Low German: “Malaysia”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Malayzija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Malezi”
  • Lule Sami: “Malájssa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malaysia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malaysien”
  • Macedonian: “Малезија”
  • Madurese: “Malaysia”
  • Magahi: “मलेसिया”
  • Maithili: “मलेसिया”
  • Malagasy: “Malaizia”
  • Malagasy: “Malezia”
  • Malay: “Malaysia”
  • Malay: “Negara Seberang Tambak”
  • Malay: “Persekutuan Malaysia”
  • Malay: “ڤرسکوتوان مليسيا”
  • Malay: “مليسيا”
  • Malayalam: “മലേഷ്യ”
  • Maltese: “il-Malasja”
  • Maltese: “Malasja”
  • Maltese: “Malażja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯂꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Yn Valaysia”
  • Maori: “Marēhia”
  • Maori: “Mareia”
  • Maori: “Mareihia”
  • Marathi: “मलेशिया”
  • Mazanderani: “مالزی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mā-lài-să̤-ā”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Má-lâi-se-a”
  • Minangkabau: “Malaysia”
  • Mingrelian: “მალაიზია”
  • Mingrelian: “მალაიზიაშ ფედერაცია”
  • Mirandese: “Malásia”
  • Moksha: “Малайзия”
  • Mongolian: “Малайз”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماليزيا”
  • Mossi: “Malaysia”
  • Nauru: “Maraidja”
  • Navajo: “Bikiníyah Daniilkaalii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “मलेसिया”
  • Newari: “मलेसिया”
  • Nias: “Malaysia”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Malaysia”
  • North Ndebele: “Malezhiya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malaysia”
  • Northern Sami: “Malaysia”
  • Northern Sami: “Malesia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malaysia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malaysia”
  • Norwegian: “Malaysia”
  • Novial: “Malaysia”
  • Nyanja: “Malaysia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Malàisia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Malægsia”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲେସିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Maleeshiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Малайзи”
  • Pa'o Karen: “မလေးသျားခမ်းထီ”
  • Paiwan: “Malaysia”
  • Pali: “मलयेशिया”
  • Pampanga: “Malasia”
  • Pampanga: “Malásia”
  • 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: “مالېزيا”
  • Quechua: “Malasia”
  • Quechua: “Malasya”
  • Rakhine: “မလေးရှားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Malaezia”
  • Romanian: “Malaiezia”
  • Romanian: “Malaysia”
  • Romansh: “Malaisia”
  • Rundi: “Maleziya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Малайз”
  • Russia Buriat: “Малайзи”
  • Russian: “Малайзия”
  • Russian: “Федерация Малайзия”
  • Rusyn: “Малайзія”
  • Sakizaya: “Malaysia”
  • Samoan: “Malesia”
  • Samogitian: “Malaizėjė”
  • Sango: “Malezïi”
  • Sanskrit: “मलयेशिया”
  • Sanskrit: “मलेशिया”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱞᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “ملائیشیا”
  • Sardinian: “Malaìsia”
  • Scots: “Malaysie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Malaidhsea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Malaidhsia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Malaysia”
  • Serbian: “Malezija”
  • Serbian: “Малезија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malezija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမလေးသျႃး”
  • Shona: “Malaysia”
  • Sicilian: “Malesia”
  • Silesian: “Malezyjo”
  • Sindhi: “ملائيشيا”
  • Sinhala: “මලයාසියාව”
  • Sinhala: “මැලේසියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Malesia”
  • Slovak: “Malajzia”
  • Slovenian: “Federacija Malezija”
  • Slovenian: “Malezija”
  • Somali: “Malaysiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالزی”
  • Spanish: “Malasia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Maleysikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵍⵉⵣⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Malaysia”
  • Swahili: “Malaysia”
  • Swahili: “Malesia”
  • Swati: “IMaleshiya”
  • Swedish: “Malaysia”
  • Swiss German: “Malaysia”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠣꠟꠦꠡꠤꠀ”
  • Tagalog: “Malasia”
  • Tagalog: “Malaysia”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥛᥣᥱ ᥘᥥᥰ ᥔᥦᥰ”
  • Tajik: “Малайзия”
  • Talysh: “Malajzijə”
  • Talysh: “Malayziya”
  • Tamil: “மலேசியா”
  • Tamil: “மலேஷியா”
  • Taroko: “Malaysia”
  • Tatar: “Малайзия”
  • Telugu: “మలేషియా”
  • Tetum: “Malázia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศมาเลเซีย”
  • Thai: “มาเลเซีย”
  • Thai: “สหพันธรัฐมาเลเซีย”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ལ་ཤི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ማሌዢያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Malaysia”
  • Tok Pisin: “Malesia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Malēsia”
  • Tsonga: “Malexiya”
  • Tulu: “ಮಲೇಷ್ಯ”
  • Tumbuka: “Malaysia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ماليزيا”
  • Turkish: “Malezya Federasyonu”
  • Turkish: “Malezya”
  • Turkmen: “Malaýziýa”
  • Turkmen: “Malaziýa”
  • Twi: “Malaysia”
  • Udmurt: “Малайзия”
  • Uighur: “مالايسىيا”
  • Ukrainian: “Малайзія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Malajzija”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Malaysia”
  • Urdu: “ملائشیا”
  • Urdu: “ملائیشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Malayziya”
  • Venetian: “Małàiza”
  • Venetian: “Malaysia”
  • Venetian: “Malayzia”
  • Venetian: “Małàzia”
  • Venetian: “Małèzia”
  • Veps: “Malaizii”
  • Vietnamese: “Mã Lai (Ma-lay-xi-a)”
  • Vietnamese: “Mã Lai”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma-lay-xi-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Malaysia”
  • Vlaams: “Maleisië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Malayeziya”
  • Volapük: “Malaysiyän”
  • Võro: “Malaisia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Malaysia”
  • Welsh: “Malaysia”
  • Welsh: “Maleisia”
  • West Coast Bajau: “Malaysia”
  • Western Armenian: “Մալեզիա”
  • Western Balochi: “مالیزیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Maleisië”
  • Western Frisian: “Maleizje”
  • Western Panjabi: “ملائشیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “ملایشیا”
  • Wolof: “Maleesi”
  • Wolof: “Malesi”
  • Wu Chinese: “马来西亚”
  • Yakut: “Малайзия”
  • Yiddish: “מאלייזיע”
  • Yiddish: “מאַלייזיע”
  • Yoruba: “Malasia”
  • Yoruba: “Malaysia”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬來西亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Maleisië”
  • Zhuang: “Majlaizsihya”
  • Zulu: “i-Malaysia”
  • Zulu: “IMalaysia”
  • “ma Malasija”
  • “ma Malesija”
  • “MAS”
  • “MY”
  • “MYS”

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