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The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu) (Thai: คาบสมุทรมลายู) is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia. It is also known as the Kra Peninsula and runs approximately north-south through the Kra Isthmus.

The coastal waters are (clockwise from northeast) the Gulf of Thailand, the South China Sea (opposite Borneo), the Straits of Johor (opposite Singapore), the Straits of Singapore (along Singapore's western coasts), the Straits of Malacca (opposite Sumatra) and the Andaman Sea.

The area is divided politically:
  • the northwest is the extreme south part of Myanmar (Burma)
  • the central region and northeast is the south part of Thailand
  • the south is the part of Malaysia called Peninsular Malaysia or West Malaysia (which should not be confused with the larger Malay Peninsula).
The Malay term Tanah Melayu is still occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realized with the creation of Malaysia. There however remains a Malay majority in southern Thailand, as the area was formerly part of the Pattani kingdom, a Malay kingdom. There is also a Malay minority in Singapore, an island country with a Chinese majority that began to develop into a major city when the British leased the island from the Sultanate of Johor in 1819.

The west coast of the peninsula was especially popular among seafaring Bugis, Chinese and Indians as a stopover, leading to increased migration of the people to set up visible coastal settlements in the thirteenth century.

The Malay Peninsula may have been the peninsula recorded as Chersonesus Aurea in Roman times.

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Writing system: Rumi (Latin alphabet) (official) and Jawi (Arabic script); historically written in Pallava, Kawi and Rencong 
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Official status
Official language of: Thailand
Regulated by: The Royal Institute
Language codes
ISO 639-1: th
ISO 639-2: tha
ISO 639-3: tha

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A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered on three sides by water. A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.[1]

Europe

  • Europe itself is a peninsula.

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Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, and north of Australia.
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The Kra Isthmus is the narrow landbridge which connects the Malay Peninsula with the mainland of Asia. The east part of the landbridge belongs to Thailand, the west part belongs to the Tanintharyi division of Myanmar.
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Gulf of Thailand (or Gulf of Siam) is a gulf that borders but is not part of the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean), bordered by Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The northern tip of the gulf is the Bay of Bangkok at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, near Bangkok.
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The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². It is the largest sea body after the five oceans.
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Borneo <nowiki />

Topography of Borneo

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Location South East Asia
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Archipelago
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Straits of Johor (also known as the Tebrau Strait, Johor Strait, Selat Johor, Selat Tebrau, and Tebrau Reach) is a strait of water that separates Johor state, Malaysia from Singapore.
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The Singapore Strait (or Straits of Singapore; Simplified Chinese: 新加坡海峡; Pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Hǎixiá
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Strait of Malacca is a narrow, 805 km (500 mile) stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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Sumatra<nowiki />

Topography of Sumatra

Geography
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Location South East Asia
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Archipelago
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The Andaman Sea (Burmese: မုတ္တမ; IPA: [moʊʔtəma̰]
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Political geography is the field of human geography that is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.
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Anthem
Kaba Ma Kyei


Capital Naypyidaw

Largest city Yangon (Rangoon)
Official languages Burmese
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Southern Thailand is a distinct region of Thailand, connected with the Central region by the narrow Kra Isthmus.

Geography

Southern Thailand is located on the Malay Peninsula, with an area around 70,713 km², bounded to the north by Kra Isthmus as the narrowest part of the
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Anthem
Phleng Chat
Royal anthem
Phleng Sansoen Phra Barami

Capital
(and largest city) Bangkok [1]

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Motto
"Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu"
"Unity Is Strength" 1
Anthem
Negaraku
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Malaya or Peninsular Malaysia (Malay: Semenanjung Malaysia) is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula, and shares a land border with Thailand in the north. To the south is the island of Singapore.
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22 million
Regions with significant populations
Majority populations
 Malaysia [1]
 Brunei
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Anthem
Phleng Chat
Royal anthem
Phleng Sansoen Phra Barami

Capital
(and largest city) Bangkok [1]

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Patani (Pattani) is known to have been part of the ancient Srivijayan kingdom. It then covered approximately the area of the modern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and much of the northern part of modern Malaysia.
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Sultanate of Johor (or sometimes Johor-Riau or Johor-Riau-Lingga) was founded by Malaccan Sultan Mahmud Shah's son, Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah in 1528. Johor was part of the Malaccan Sultanate before the Portuguese conquered Malacca's capital in 1511.
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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
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Bugis are the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, the southwestern province of Sulawesi, Indonesia's third largest island. Although many Bugis live in the large port cities of Makassar and Parepare, the majority are farmers who grow wet
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The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:
  • A person who resides in and holds citizenship of the People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau) or the Republic of China (Taiwan). This definition stems from a legal perspective.

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