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Malaysia (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 02 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 2.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 112 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 112.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area settled by 4000 BCE, had significant Stone and Bronze Age cultures; Indian influence by 2nd century BCE, Chinese and Islamic from 1400; Portuguese and Dutch arrived 16-17th century; invasions from Sumatra and Celebes 17-18th century; British and Indian control 19th century; official language is Bahasa Malaysia (Malay), though Chinese, English, and Tamil are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Malaysia (preferred,C,V,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Malaysia (Somali)
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| Malaysia (Sunda)
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| Malaysia (Tagalog)
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| Malaysia (Vietnamese)
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| Malaysia (Ilocano)
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| Malaysia (Indonesian)
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| Malaysia (Danish)
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| Malaysia (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Malaysia (Swedish)
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| Malaysia (Romanian)
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| Malaysia (Basque)
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| Malaysia (Scots Gaelic)
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| Malaysia (Welsh)
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| Malaysia (German)
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| Malaysia (Low German)
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| Malaysia (Breton)
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| Malaysia (Greenlandic)
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| Malaysia (Luxembourgish)
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| Malaysia (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Malaysia (Malay (specific)-P,U)
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| Malaysia (Upper Sorbian)
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| Malaysia (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Malaysia (Norwegian)
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| Malaysia (Pampanga)
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| Malaysia (Shona)
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| Malaysia (Swahili (generic))
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| Malaysia (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Malaisie (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Maleisië (C,O,Dutch)
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| Maleisië (Afrikaans)
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| Maleisië (Limburgan)
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| Malasia (C,O,Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Malasia (Basque)
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| Malásia (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Малайзия (C,O,Tajik)
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| Малайзия (Bulgarian)
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| Малайзия (Russian-P,U)
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| 马来西亚 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| مايًزيا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| MYS (C,O,ISO3L)
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| MY (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO458 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Federation of Malaysia (C,O)
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| Malaysian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| מלזיה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Mhalaeisia (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Federation of Malaya (C,U)
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| i-Malaysia (C,U,Zulu)
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| Malaezia (C,U,Romanian)
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| Malaiezia (C,U,Romanian)
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| Mã Lai (Ma-lay-xi-a) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Malaisia (C,U,Aragonese)
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| Malaisia (Galician)
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| Malaisia (Estonian)
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| Malaisia (Romansh)
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| Malàisia (C,U,Catalan)
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| Malàisia (Occitan)
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| Malaisia - Malaysia (C,U,Galician)
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| Malaisiya (C,U,Hausa)
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| Malaizia (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Malaizia (Ido)
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| Malaizija (C,U,Latvian)
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| Malaizija (Lithuanian)
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| Malájföld (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Malajsie (C,U,Czech)
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| Malajzi (C,U,Albanian)
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| Malajzia (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Malajzia (Slovak)
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| Malajzia (Albanian)
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| Malajzio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Malasía (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Malasja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Malasya (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Malaysi (C,U,Cornish)
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| Malaysia nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Malaysien (C,U,German)
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| Malaysien (Luxembourgish)
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| Malaysiya (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Malaysiyän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Ma-lay-xi-a (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Malehyia (C,U,Akan)
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| Maleisia (C,U,Faroese)
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| Maleizje (C,U,Western Frisian)
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| Malesia (C,U,Finnish)
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| Malesia (Italian)
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| Malesia (Kikuyu)
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| Malesia (Northern Sami)
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| Malesia (Swahili (generic))
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| Malēsia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Malèsie (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Malesii (C,U,Fulah)
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| Malezhiya (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Malezi (C,U,Lingala)
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| Malezi (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Malezi (Luba-Katanga)
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| Malezïi (C,U,Sangho)
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| Malezija (C,U,Croatian)
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| Malezija (Bosnian)
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| Malezija (Slovene)
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| Maleziya (C,U,Rundi)
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| Malezja (C,U,Polish)
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| Malezya (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Malezya (Kurdish)
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| Malezya (Turkish)
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| Malɛzi (C,U,Bambara)
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| mejgu'e (C,U)
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| Orílẹ́ède Malasia (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Persekutuan Tanah Malaysia (C,U)
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| Persekutuan Tanah Melayu (C,U)
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| มาเลเซีย (C,U,Thai)
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| மலேஷியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| مالیزیا (C,U,Pashto)
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| مالیزیا (Kurdish)
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| 말레이시아 (C,U,Korean)
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| Малезија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Малезија (Macedonian)
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| Малайзія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Малайзія (Belarusian)
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| 말레이지아 (C,U,Korean)
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| മലേഷ്യ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| मलेशिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| मलेशिया (Hindi)
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| མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| მალაიზია (C,U,Georgian)
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| ماليزيا (C,U,Arabic)
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| مالايسىيا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ಮಲೇಶಿಯ (C,U,Kannada)
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| মাল্যাশিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| مالزی (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| மலேசியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| Μαλαισία (C,U,Greek)
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| ມາເລເຊຍ (C,U,Lao)
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| ประเทศมาเลเซีย (C,U,Thai)
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| Մալայզիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ማሌዢያ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ማሌዢያ (Amharic)
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| मलयेशिया (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| मलयेशिया (Kashmiri)
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| ម៉ាលេស៉ី (C,U,Khmer)
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| ملیشیا (C,U,Urdu)
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| マレーシア (C,U,Japanese)
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| మలేషియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| မလေးရှား (C,U,Burmese)
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| མ་ལེ་ཤི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| මැලේසියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| મલેશિયા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| मलेसिया (C,U,Nepali)
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| মালয়েশিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| ମାଲେସିଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| ಮಲೇಶಿಯಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| Malay States (H,O)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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amalgamation of Malaya, Sarawak & Sabah; federation established on September 16, 1963 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| federation (C) |
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peninsular states united 1940s, states on Borneo joined later; with configuration after withdrawal of Singapore, 1965 |
| Bronze Age (H) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Kuala Lumpur .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur) [7001459] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1957 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1957 |
| successor of .... |
Federated Malay States .......... (former territory/colony/dependent state) |
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(World, Asia) [8711654] |
| successor of .... |
Unfederated Malay States .......... (former territory/colony/dependent state) |
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(World, Asia) [8711655] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Persekutuan Tanah Malaysia.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 1733045 |
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