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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 ...
The Malay Peninsula[a] is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand, and the southernmost tip of Myanmar (Kawthaung). The island country of Singapore also has ...
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park, Sabah. Tun Sakaran Marine Park, Sabah. Sugud Islands Marine Conservation Area, Sabah. Turtle Islands National Park, Sabah. Tanjung Datu National Park, Sarawak. Talang Satang National Park, Sarawak.
Topographic map of Malaysia; ... Malaysia is the only country with territory on both the Asian mainland and the Malay archipelago. [165] The Strait of Malacca, ...
The Malay tricolour embodies the philosophy of Kemelayuan. Malays (/ məˈleɪ / mə-LAY; Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو ) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations. These locations are today part ...
It is the only country to contain land on both mainland Asia and the Malay Archipelago. [3] Peninsular Malaysia makes up 132,090 square kilometres (51,000 sq mi), [1] or almost 40% of the country's land area, while East Malaysia covers 198,847 square kilometres (76,780 sq mi), or 60%. From the total land area, 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi ...
By the start of the 16th century, with the Malacca Sultanate in the Malay Peninsula and parts of Sumatra, [82] the Demak Sultanate in Java, [83] and other kingdoms around the Malay Archipelago increasingly converting to Islam, [84] it had become the dominant religion among Malays, and reached as far as the modern-day Philippines, leaving Bali ...