The total land area of Malaysia is 329,847 square kilometres (127,350 sq mi), the 67th largest country in the world in terms of area.[6] It is the only country to contain land on both mainland Asia and the Malay archipelago.[3] Peninsular Malaysia makes up 132,090 square kilometres (51,000 sq mi),[1] or 39.7% of the country's land area, while East Malaysia covers 198,847 square kilometres (76,780 sq mi), or 60.3%. From the total land area, 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi) or 0.37% is made up of water such as lakes, rivers, or other internal waters. Malaysia has a total coastline of 4,675 kilometres (2,905 mi), and Peninsular Malaysia has 2,068 kilometres (1,285 mi), while East Malaysia has 2,607 kilometres (1,620 mi) of coastline.[6] Malaysia has the 29th longest coastline in the world. The two distinct parts of Malaysia, separated from each other by the South China Sea, share a largely similar landscape in that both West (Peninsula) and East Malaysia feature coastal plains rising to hills and mountains.[6]
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This video showing night lights over the Malay Peninsula was taken by the crew of Expedition 28 on board the International Space Station.
Peninsula Malaysia covers the southern half of the Malay Peninsula,[3] and extends 740 kilometres (460 mi) from north to south, and its maximum width is 322 kilometres (200 mi).[1] It is mountainous, with more than half of it over 150 metres (492 ft) above sea level.[3] About half of Peninsular Malaysia is covered by granite and other igneous rocks, a third more is covered by stratified rocks older than the granite, and the remainder is covered by alluvium.[7] Harbours are only available on the peninsula's western side,[1] and the most fertile land occur...
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...Kedah, and Penang Island in Penang. The largest island shared with another country is Borneo, followed by Sebatik Island. In addition, Malaysia lies within the world's coral reef distribution.[15] The reefs can be usually found around islands such as Sipadan Island, Swallow Reef, and Redang Island.[citation needed] Sipadan Island, an underwater mountain, is Malaysia's only oceanic island.[16]
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The southernmost point of Malaysia is located in the district of Serian in Sarawak. Tanjung Piai on the southern tip of Johor is the southernmost point in Peninsular, and thus of the whole of continental Eurasia.[17][18] The easternmost point is found on the tip of Dent Peninsular in Lahad Datu district in Sabah. The northernmost point is found on the northern tip of Banggi Island. The westernmost point is found on the western tip of Pulau Langkawi in Kedah.
Larger than California and Oregon combined, Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island, after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. Located 250 miles off the south-east coast of Africa, the island extends 1,000 miles in length and 360 miles at its largest width. The island can be divided into three main parts: the East Coast, a narrow coastal strip abutting the steep slopes of the North-South mountain range, home of the rain forest; the Central Highlands, averaging 2500 to 4500 feet in altitude and culminating at 9430 feet, decorated with immense rice fields; and the West Coast, home of the baobabs and thorny forest. Coral reefs fringe a portion of the coast. Most plants and animals found in Madagascar exist only there.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: 20th Century Music (Jack Norworth and Alber Von Tilzer)
Madagascar lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa. The world's fourth-largest island, it is twice the size of Arizona. The country's low-lying coastal area gives way to a central plateau. The once densely wooded interior has largely been cut down. (Infoplease, 2012)
Malaysia consists of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah. In Malaysia, all the education system is under the control of government. This central curriculum makes every states and territory having the same curriculum, age to go to school and others. In Malaysia, there are five phrases of education which are preschool, primary, secondary schools and tertiary education (Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025). However, in this essay, we are touching only until secondary education.
However, Malaysia has a different interpretation on race. The hierarchy of race was brought and introduced by the Dutch, Portuguese, and British colonies, but have changed based on the contemporary ideas. As previously before, people were placed on race based structures by using three categories: Chinese, Malay, and Indian. Based on your “race” you were placed in a certain category and
Malaysia foreign policy introduced by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj after malaysia was independent. The goal of Malaysia Foreign Policy is to maintaining peaceful relations with all countries regardless of its ideology and political system. It also adopting an independent, non-aligned, and principled stance in regional and international diplomatic affairs. Then forging close relations and economic partnerships with all nations, particularly with ASEAN and other regional friends. It’s also helps to promoting peace and stability in the region through capacity building and conflict resolution measures. It’s playing an influential leadership role as Chair of the ASEAN, Non-aligned Movement (NAM) and Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). Malaysia need participating actively and meaningfully in the United Nations, especially in the efforts to end injustice and oppression, and to uphold international law and projecting Malaysia as a leading example of a tolerant and progressive Islamic nation. They have four instrument of foreign policy to achieving their foreign policy goal such as diplomacy, economic element, propaganda and military
Malaysia is located in the south-eastern Asia, bordering Thailand and northern one-third of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam. Due to its locations, it has been colonised since the late 18th centuries by many countries. Since 1965, Malaysia has had one of the best economic records in Asia, with GDP average of 6.5% growth for almost 50 years. The economical development especially boosted during 1981 and 2003 under the governance of Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad. Malaysia succeeded in diversifying its economy from dependence on exports of raw materials to expansion in manufacturing, services, and tourism. Also, the current Prime Minister continues to pursue pro-business policies .
Madagascar is an island off of the eastern coast of Africa. Being an island, it means that it is not bordered by any other countries. It is however, surrounded by the Indian Ocean. It has an absolute location of 18.7669 ° S, 46.8691 ° E. This puts it in the Southern hemisphere, and the Eastern hemisphere. This makes it about 10,933 miles from Escondido, California.
According to the researcher in 2006, in term of culture as we all know Malaysia become a multi culture society of living many groups and people are different background for actually Chinese and Indian. There are 15% of Indian of Malaysia’s total population and 20% of Chinese lining in this
Turkey is located approximately 1,600 kilometers from east to west and 550 kilometers from north to south. Turkey is located in southeast Europe and southwest Asia. Its neighbors are Greece and Bulgaria to the west, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania to the north and northwest side through the Black Sea.
On the planet Earth, there is a limited space upon which life may settle. This is one of many factors that creates what is regarded by scientists as a factor in the carrying capacity of a habitat, specifically the Earth. This world has much land that is available for human settlement. However, because the exponential rate at which the human population has gone, and because the excessive needs of some people who live excessively, we have quickly reached the point at which the Earth will no longer be able to support humans. However, regardless of this shortage of land in the United States of America there is an excess of land that remains unsettled completely by man. This land is referred to often as the frontier and remains for the most part empty in comparison to the remainder of the country. However, with all of this land in the country it is necessary to manage it and to ensure that it remains kempt and in watched over. This idea of land management is known mostly in the United States. It is not known to many other places in the world mostly because most other places do not have any land that can be managed. However, in the United States we have excess lands that have been designated as public lands. These lands are preserved and kept as natural as possible for the sake of nature and its processes. Some of these lands designations are national parks, nature preserves, and other national and state preservations. These lands are managed by both federal and state agencies and programs that are to the benefit and continuation of natural lands, and unlike other countries these places do not interfere with the habitats and lives of people.
Malaysia biggest problem is the environmental pollution. Although people already know how harmful these things are but they still go on. The three main pollution that happen in Malaysia are air pollution, water pollution and land pollution. Mostly pollution effect by the air conditional that release CFC’s gasses, rubbish that been thrown to the rival and open burning. All of this pollution will be link to all kind of diseases, sickness, bacteria and virus. For an example lung cancer that will happen to people cause by breathing the polluted air that been create by Malaysian themselves.
...wn, 2013) Malaysia beaches are special and famous because local people well maintain and is close to the jungle. So the tourist can do jungle trekking or hiking. Monsoon season is between October to February and the east coast resort will close down.
The borders of Indonesia is Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and South China Sea in north, Papua New Guinea in east, and Indian Ocean in west and south. Timor Leste also the border of Indonesia in southeast since 1999. As
Malaysia was once a colonized land and known as Malaya back then. Malaysia is one of the Commonwealth countries, which means Malaysia was one of the British colonies.