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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]
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A Map of Malaysia's states. Malaysia is divided into thirteen states and three Federal Territories. Eleven states and two Federal Territories are found in Peninsular Malaysia, while two states and one Federal Territory are found in East Malaysia. The states are further divided into administrative districts.
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In Peninsular Malaysia, a district is a subdivision of a state.A mukim (commune, sub-district or parish) is a subdivision of a district.The National Land Code assigns land matters, including the delineation of districts, to the purview of state governments. [1]
Peninsular Malaysia, [a] historically known as Malaya, [b] also known as West Malaysia or the "Malaysian Peninsula", [c] is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the nearby islands. [1]
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]
Divisions (Malay: bahagian) are the primary subdivisions of Sabah and Sarawak, the states in East Malaysia.Each division is subdivided into districts (daerah) — this is different in Peninsular Malaysia whereby districts are generally the primary subdivisions of a state.