Its rainforests are around 130 million years old, older than the Amazon.
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Malaysia
Malaysia
Asia
ยท South-Eastern Asia
0Population
330.8Kkmยฒ of land
$11.41KGDP / person
Kuala LumpurCapital
- ISO codes
- MY ยท MYS
- Density
- 97 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Malay
- Currency
- Malaysian ringgit (MYR)
- Dial code
- +60
- Internet domain
- .my
- Time zones
- 2
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 2.5290ยฐ N, 113.8370ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Malaysian
- UN region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $364.68B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Malaysia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
44th
of 242 ยท 0.42% of world population
Land area
69th
of 242 ยท 0.22% of world land
GDP per person
98th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
107th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Malaysia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 31,949,777 people, the 44th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.42 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 330,803 kmยฒ, making it the 69th largest country here - about 10.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 97 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Kuala Lumpur, at 3.17ยฐ N, 101.70ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,448,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Brunei, Indonesia and Thailand.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 2 time zones, from Asia/Kuala Lumpur to Asia/Kuching.
The currency is the Malaysian ringgit (MYR, symbol RM).
Has 2 official languages: English and Malay.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Kuala Lumpur
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UTC+08:00
Asia/Kuching
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UTC+08:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
George Town
Pulau Pinang
5.4136ยฐ N, 100.3294ยฐ E
2.5M
2
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Kuala Lumpur
Selangor
3.1686ยฐ N, 101.6980ยฐ E
1.45M
3
Kuching
Sarawak
1.5300ยฐ N, 110.3300ยฐ E
570.41K
4
Putrajaya
Selangor
2.9140ยฐ N, 101.7019ยฐ E
67.96K
๐ Peaks
Mount Kinabalu
4,095 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Petronas Towers
City
Twin towers joined by a skybridge that is deliberately not bolted to either tower, so it can slide as they sway.
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Malaysia.