Malaysia : territoire et Sarawak Chamber

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Localisation et organisation territoriale
2. Population langues et gouvernance
3. Diversité culturelle et paysages
4. La Sarawak Chamber

📖 1. Localisation et organisation territoriale

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Malaysia : A federal state in Southeast Asia divided between the Malaysian Peninsula and the island of Borneo.

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• Malaysia consists of:

  • thirteen states
  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Labuan
  • Putrajaya

• Malaysia covers 330,803 square kilometres, which is about half the area of metropolitan France.

Compléments

• Malaysia is surrounded by Thailand and Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo.

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Peninsula versus Borneo: two Malaysian parts separated by geography

📖 2. Population langues et gouvernance

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• Malaysia has over 35.56 million inhabitants, and its capital city Kuala Lumpur has 7 million inhabitants.

• Malaysia is led by King Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, meaning “supreme sovereign” in Malay.

📌 Malay is Malaysia's official language, while English is widely spoken because of the country's multicultural history.

Compléments

• Malaysia's prime minister is Anwar Ibrahim, who has mainly held political power for eight years according to the course.