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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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.

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, called KL by locals, is Malaysia's federal capital and largest city at 6.5 million. is a cultural melting pot with some of the world's cheapest 5-star hotels, impressive shopping districts, food from all parts of the world, and natural wonders within day-trip distance.

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is Malaysia's second largest city, and the state capital of . The city is surrounded by suburbs, industrial parks and long waterfront areas, in the southern part of Peninsular Malaysia.

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is the capital city of the Malaysian state of . It is Malaysia's sixth largest city, with a population of about 708,000, with 1.7 million in the metro area, as of 2020.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as West Coast and East Coast.

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The of Peninsular Malaysia includes states which have their coastlines along the Straits of Malacca. This part of the peninsular is more urban and developed than the more Malay, Muslim and rural .

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The is a part of Peninsular Malaysia. Largely rural and comparatively poor, the 's prime attractions are some of Malaysia's most unspoiled islands, featuring great beaches and excellent scuba diving.

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, formerly Johore, is the southernmost and third largest state of Peninsular Malaysia. It also has the second largest economy among the states of Peninsular Malaysia, only behind .

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is a state in Malaysia. It makes up Malaysian along with the state of , and the .

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is Malaysia's largest state. It lies in East Malaysia and shares the island of with the eastern state of , the separate country of and the provinces of .

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is a federal territory of Malaysia. It comprises one large and six smaller islands in off the coast of in Malaysia.

Malaysia

Latitude of center
3.07° or 3° 4′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
107.8° or 107° 48′ east
Population
28,300,000
Area
329,750 km² (127,317 miles²)
Elevation
275 metres (902 feet)
Capital
Currency
Ringgit (MYR)
Phone code
.my
Internet domain
60
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399394
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1733045
Wiki­data ID
Q833
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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: “MAS”
  • Arabic: “my”
  • Arabic: “MYS”
  • Arabic: “ماليزيا”
  • Aragonese: “Malaisia”
  • Armenian: “Մալայզիա”
  • Arpitan: “Malèsia”
  • Arpitan: “Malèsie”
  • Assamese: “মালয়েচিয়া”
  • Assamese: “মালয়েছিয়া”
  • Asturian: “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”
  • 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: “MAS”
  • Buginese: “my”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨕᨗᨔᨗᨐ”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨕᨗᨔᨗᨕ”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨒᨙᨔ”
  • Bulgarian: “Малайзия”
  • Burmese: “မလေးရှား”
  • Burmese: “မလေးရှားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Malàisia”
  • Cebuano: “Malasya”
  • Cebuano: “Malaysia”
  • Cebuano: “Malaysiya”
  • Central Bikol: “Malasya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Malasia”
  • Central Kurdish: “مالیزیا”
  • Chamorro: “Malaysia”
  • Chavacano: “Malasia”
  • Chechen: “Малайзи”
  • Cherokee: “ᎹᎴᏏᎢᎠ”
  • 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 Tatar: “Malayziya”
  • Croatian: “Malezija”
  • Czech: “Malajsie”
  • Dagbani: “Malaysia”
  • Danish: “Malaysia”
  • Dhivehi: “މެލޭޝިޔާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Malêzya”
  • Dotyali: “मलेशिया”
  • Dotyali: “मलेसिया”
  • Dutch: “Maleisie”
  • Dutch: “Maleisië”
  • Dutch: “MY”
  • Dutch: “MYS”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ་”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Малайзий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماليزيا”
  • Esperanto: “Federacio Malajzio”
  • Esperanto: “Malajzia Federacio”
  • Esperanto: “Malajzio”
  • Esperanto: “MAS”
  • Esperanto: “MY”
  • Esperanto: “MYS”
  • 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”
  • French: “MAS”
  • 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”
  • Indonesian: “MAS”
  • Indonesian: “my”
  • Indonesian: “MYS”
  • 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: “MAS”
  • 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: “ម៉ាឡេស៊ី”
  • 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: “MAS”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “MAS”
  • Slovenian: “my”
  • 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: “MAS”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Malaysia”
  • 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”
  • “Malaisia”
  • “Malaizėjė”
  • “Malasia”
  • “Malaysia”
  • “MAS”
  • “my”
  • “MY”
  • “MYS”
  • “मलेशिया”

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