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East Malaysia
0
40 mi
CHINA
CHINA
TAIWAN
TAIWAN
N
MYANMAR
(BURMA)
MYANMAR
(BURMA)
N
LAOS
LAOS
0
40 km
South China
Sea
THAILAND
THAILAND
Andaman
Sea
Airport
PHILIPPINES
PHILIPPINES
CAMBODIA
CAMBODIA
VIETNAM
VIETNAM
area of detail
PENINSULAR
MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE
SINGAPORE
SINGAPORE
Sulu Sea
Sulu Sea
KALIMANTAN
(BORNEO)
SULAWESI
Kudat
Kudat
SUMATRA
A
Indian Ocean
JAVA
Kota Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu
BALI
Sandakan
Sandakan
Lahad
Datu
Lahad
Datu
Bandar Seri
Begawan
Bandar Seri
Begawan
SABAH
SABAH
SOUTH
CHINA
SEA
SOUTH
CHINA
SEA
BRUNEI
Miri
Miri
Tawau
Tawau
Bintulu
Bintulu
12
Celebes
Sea
Celebes
Sea
SARAWAK
SARAWAK
Sibu
Sibu
BORNEO
BORNEO
Kuching
Kuching
KALIMANTAN
KALIMANTAN
are in the northwest; Kelantan and Tereng-
ganu are in the northeast; Selangor, Negeri
Sembilan, and M elaka are about midway
down the peninsula on the w estern side;
Pahang, along the east coast, sprawls
actually a federal district similar to Wash-
ington, D.C., in the United States.
On Borneo, S arawak and S abah shar e
the landmass with Indonesia's Kalimantan.
Also sharing the island, in a tiny nook on
the Sarawak coast, is the tiny oil-rich S ul-
tanate of Brunei Darussalam.
Back on the peninsula, the major cities
can be found closer to the coastline, many
having built on old trade or mining settle-
ments, usually near one of M
inward to co ver most of the central ar ea
(which is mostly for est pr eserve); and
Johor covers the entir e southern tip fr om
east to west, with two vehicular causeways
linking it to Singapore, just over the Strait
of Johor. Kuala Lumpur, the nation's capi-
tal, appears on a map to be located in the
center of the state of S
alaysia's
many rivers.
elangor, but it is
