Fiche de révision : 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.

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• 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.

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

📖 3. Diversité culturelle et paysages

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• The religions mentioned are:

  • Islam
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism
  • Christianity
  • Taoism

• The landscapes include:

  • crystal-clear beaches
  • wide green expanses
  • small mountains

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• Malaysia's cultural and religious differences allow people to coexist, although this coexistence sometimes creates tensions.

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Cultural and religious diversity → a rich but sometimes tense coexistence

📖 4. La Sarawak Chamber

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• The Sarawak Chamber is one of the world's biggest caves, located in Gunung Mulu National Park on the island of Borneo.

• The Sarawak Chamber is 600 metres long, 435 metres wide and 115 metres high, large enough for eight to ten Boeing 747 aircraft.

• The Sarawak Chamber contains approximately two to three million bats that fly together in a giant spiral.

• Inside the Sarawak Chamber, hot and humid air rises to form clouds, rain and haze, while air circulation through the cave creates strong winds.

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• The Sarawak Chamber is registered with UNESCO mainly because of its unusual internal weather and also because of its incredible biodiversity.

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An underground tropical world with clouds, rain, winds and millions of bats