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The national flag of Malaysia, also known as the Stripes of Glory (Malay: Jalur Gemilang; Jawi: جالور ݢميلڠ ), [1] is composed of a field of 14 alternating red and white stripes along the fly and a blue canton bearing a crescent and a 14-point star known as the Bintang Persekutuan (Federal Star). The 14 stripes, of equal width ...
Coat of arms of Malaysia; Armiger: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Adopted: 1963: Crest: A crescent and a fourteen-pointed federal star. Shield: Tierced per pale, the second three-and-a-half times as wide as the other two: The first (at dexter) of Penang; the second per fess, in chief paly of four Gules, Sable, Argent and Or, in base of Sabah, a Bunga Raya (hibiscus flower), and of Sarawak; the ...
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages. It has also been called the " Malay world," "Nusantara ...
Flag of Labuan. Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue, there is a yellow crescent and yellow fourteen-pointed stars in the white band. 2001 onwards. Flag of Putrajaya. Three vertical bands of blue, yellow (double width), and blue with the Malaysian coat of arms in the yellow band.
The name Malaysia is a combination of the word Malays and the Latin-Greek suffix -ia/-ία [18] which can be translated as 'land of the Malays'. [19] 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. [20]
Flag badge depicting the areca nut palm tree leaved and fructed proper on a mound with a wreath of the colours of the settlement arms adopted on 16 June 1952 by the Settlement Council. [6] 1957-1965 State of Penang: Adopted in 1957 with Malayan independence. This original flag continued to be used up to 1965, when it was modified to its present ...
Despite having deep roots in Malay traditions, the green, yellow and red as a collective symbolism only surfaced in 1933, when the Royal Malay Regiment was founded. Both the regimental crest and flag bear the tricolour, [7] as soldiers of the regiment swore their allegiance to the Sultans of Malay states, then the protectorates of the British Empire. [8]
Media in category "Flags of Malaysia". This category contains only the following file. Bendera Sultan Terengganu.jpg 383 × 255; 30 KB. Categories: Flags by country. National symbols of Malaysia. Flags of Asia. Commons category link from Wikidata.