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The name "Kuching" was already in use for the city by the time Brooke arrived in 1839. [9] [15] There are many theories as to the derivation of the name "Kuching".It was perhaps derived from the Malay word for cat, "kucing", or from Cochin, an Indian trading port on the Malabar Coast and a generic term in China and British India for trading harbour. [9]
Each state in Malaysia has its own state capital, where the state administration is carried out by each respective state government that is formed after winning the elections. The three Federal Territories of Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur , Labuan and Putrajaya – are headed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and administered by the Department of the ...
Map of Malaysia. This is a list of local governments in Malaysia which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
However, Singapore's expulsion in 1965 meant that George Town would remain Malaysia's only city until Kuala Lumpur's declaration as a city in 1972, by Abdul Halim of Kedah, the fifth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. In 1988, Kuching was chartered as the first city in East Malaysia.
Patani, or the Sultanate of Patani (Jawi: كسلطانن ڤطاني) was a Malay sultanate in the historical Pattani Region.It covered approximately the area of the modern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and part of the Malaysian state of Kelantan.
Singapore was a Malaysian state from the formation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963 until it was expelled from the Federation on 9 August 1965. During its time as a state of Malaysia, Singapore had autonomy in the areas of education and labour and was the smallest state in Malaysia by land area, but the largest by population. [24]
The name Malaysia is a combination of the word Malays and the Latin-Greek suffix -ia/-ία [19] which can be translated as 'land of the Malays'. [20] Similar-sounding variants have also appeared in accounts older than the 11th century, as toponyms for areas in Sumatra or referring to a larger region around the Strait of Malacca. [21]
Kedah (Malay pronunciation:), [7] also known by its honorific Darul Aman (دار الأمان; Arabic for 'The Safe Abode') and historically as Queda, [8] is a state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia.