Location: Malaysia is located in Southeastern Asia. There are two distinct parts to Malaysia being Peninsular Malaysia to the west and East Malaysia to the East. Peninsular Malaysia is located south of Thailand, north of Singapore and east of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. East Malaysia is located on the island of Borneo and shares borders with Brunei and Indonesia. Map of Malaysia from the 2002 Factbook File links The following pages link to this file: Malaysia Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Map of Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia (or Semenanjung Malaysia in the Malay language) is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula, and shares a land border with Thailand in the north. ... East Malaysia consists of the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak which are located on the island of Borneo, to the east across the South China Sea from West Malaysia. ... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatara and Sumatera) is the sixth largest island of the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest part of Indonesia. ... Borneo (politically divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei) is the third largest island in the world. ...

Geographic coordinates: 2°30′N 112°30′E

Map references: Southeast Asia

Area:
total: 329,750 km²
land: 328,550 km²
water: 1,200 km²

Land boundaries:
total: 2,669 km
border countries: Brunei 381 km, Indonesia 1,782 km, Thailand 506 km

Coastline: 4,675 km (Peninsular Malaysia 2,068 km, East Malaysia 2,607 km)

Maritime claims:
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation; specified boundary in the South China Sea
exclusive economic zone: 200 nautical miles (370 km)
territorial sea: 12 nautical miles (22 km) A nautical mile is a unit of length. ...

Climate: tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... For the band Monsoon see Sheila Chandra Monsoon in the Vindhya, a mountain chain in central India A monsoon is a periodic wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia. ...

Terrain: coastal plains rising to hills and mountains Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ...

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Kinabalu 4,095m Situated in Malaysia, Mount Kinabalu is Southeast Asias second highest mountain behind Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar at 4095 m above sea level. ...

Natural resources: tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite General Name, Symbol, Number tin, Sn, 50 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 5, p Appearance silvery lustrous gray Atomic mass 118. ... Nodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Latin petra – rock and oleum – oil), crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish liquid. ... Timber Timber is a term used to describe wood that has been processed for use —from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use —such as structural material for construction or wood pulp for paper production. ... General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic brown Atomic mass 63. ... This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ... Natural gas (commonly refered to as gas in many countries, but note that gas is also an American and Canadian shortening of gasoline) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... Bauxite Bauxite is a naturally occurring, heterogeneous material composed primarily of one or more aluminium hydroxide minerals, plus various mixtures of silica, iron oxide, titania, aluminium silicates, and other impurities in minor or trace amounts. ...

Land use:

• arable land: 3%
• permanent crops: 12%
• permanent pastures: 0%
• forests and woodland: 68%
• other: 17% (1993 est.)

Irrigated land: 2,941 km² (1998 est.)

Natural hazards: flooding, landslides A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes, and shallow debris flows, see flow. ...

Environment - current issues: air pollution from industrial and vehicular emissions; water pollution from raw sewage; deforestation; smoke/haze from Indonesian forest fires This power plant in New Mexico releases sulfur dioxide and particulate matter into the air. ... Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forest. ...

Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol UNFCCC logo. ...

Geography - note: strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China Sea This wide-angle map of south-east Asia shows that the Strait is the most direct route from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. ...

External links

• Malaysia Map
• Map
• Large map of Malaysia