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Country Profile: Malaysia

OFFICIAL NAME	Federation of Malaysia
GEOGRAPHY	Southeastern Asia, peninsula and northern one-third of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia and the South C hina Sea, south of Vietnam
AREA	329,750 sq km / 127,316 sq miles
COMPARATIVE	slightly larger than the state of New Mexico
POPULATION	23,000,000
CAPITAL	Kuala Lumpur
LITERACY	97% (age 15+ and can read and write)
LANGUAGE	Official: Malay - known as Bahasa Malaysia Other: English, C hinese, and Tamil
RELIGION	Muslim - 52% Buddhist - 17% Taoist - 12% Christian - 8% Hindu - 8% Tribal - 2%
POLITICS	Won independence August 31, 1957. Federal constitutional monarchy, with Monarchs elected every 5 years and Prime Ministers.
INCOME	Per capita income = US$ 4,650 per year
CURRENCY	Malaysian Ringgit (RM)
TIME ZONE	GMT/UTC +8
SOURCES	Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News.

Country Profile

Portal

Virtual Malaysia - official portal of Malaysia's Ministry of Tourism

News: Country-Specific

Malaysian National News Agency - Malaysian National News Agency which provides real time Malaysian news including politics, business, economy, commodities, executive reports, and sports.
MalaysiaNews.net - Regional and world news, finance, sport and weather. Access Malaysia newspapers, travel, hotels and a map of Malaysia.
DailyExpress.com.my - Online edition of this "Independent National Newspaper of East Malaysia" based in the Sabah area.

News: Asia General

Channel News Asia (all Asia)
World News Asia (all Asia)

Travel

Map

Lonely Planet/Malaysia map

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