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Peninsular Malaysia
Sign in to saveAlso known as West Malaysia, Malaya, Tanah Malaysia, Malaysia lands, Semenanjung Malaysia, Peninsular Malaya
portion of Malaysia located on the Malacca Peninsula in Southeast Asia
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Malaysia
- Population
- 22569345
- Area
- 131732
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Image
- Location map Peninsula Malaysia.png
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- Commons category
- Peninsular Malaysia
- topic's main category
- Category:Peninsular Malaysia
- located in/on physical feature
- Malay Peninsula
- different from
- Malay Peninsula
- opposite of
- East Malaysia
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Encyclopedic overview
Landsat false-colour mosaic of Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Peninsular Malaya or simply Malaya prior to 1963, and also known as West Malaysia and the Malaysian Peninsula, is the southern part of the Malay Peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia along with the nearby islands that are part of Malaysia. Its area totals approximately 131,956 km (50,948 sq mi). It makes up nearly 40% of the total area of Malaysia; the other 60% is on the island of Borneo, also known as East Malaysia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peninsular Malaysia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.