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Malaysia
| Location |
S China Sea |
| Latitude and longitude |
2 30 N, 112 30 E |
| Sovereignty |
Independent |
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Part of nation is on SE Asia’s Malay Peninsula; shares
island of Kalimantan (Borneo) with Indonesia,
Brunei |
| Population |
21,793,293 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2000 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
328,550 |
| Capital |
Kuala Lumpur |
Legal documents online
|
| Acts of Parliament,
a searchable index covering 1990 to the present, from the Parliament of
Malaysia |
| Laws
of Malaysia, from the Malaysian law firm Tay & Partners |
| Selected Laws
of Malaysia, from the Government of Malaysia |
| International Court of Justice, Case
Concerning Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia
v. Malaysia), Judgment of 17 December 2002 (PDF); other
documents from the case are also available |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Country
profile: Malaysia, from the BBC News |
| Department of Statistics,
Malaysia |
| Fishery
Country Profile—Malaysia, from the Food and Agriculture
Organization |
| My
Government, from the Government of Malaysia |
| Independent
States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D.C. |
| Legal
Profiles: Malaysia, from the Islamic family law study by the Emory University School of Law |
| Malaysia,
Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State (2003) |
| Malaysia,
from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Malaysia,
from the World Bank Group |
| Malaysian
Judiciary |
| Parliament
of Malaysia |
| Profile,
from the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| States
of Emergency Database: Malaysia, from the Human Rights Center at
the Queens University School of Law, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Country
Profile: Malaysia |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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