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MALAYSIA IS A FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. IT CONSISTS OF THIRTEEN STATES AND THREE FEDERAL TERRITORIES AND HAS A TOTAL LANDMASS OF 330,803 SQUARE KILOMETRES (127,720 SQ MI) SEPARATED BY THE SOUTH CHINA SEA INTO TWO SIMILARLY SIZED REGIONS, PENINSULAR MALAYSIA AND EAST MALAYSIA (MALAYSIAN BORNEO). PENINSULAR MALAYSIA SHARES A LAND AND MARITIME BORDER WITH THAILAND AND MARITIME BORDERS WITH SINGAPORE, VIETNAM, AND INDONESIA.

MALAYSIA HAS ITS ORIGINS IN THE MALAY KINGDOMS PRESENT IN THE AREA WHICH, FROM THE 18TH CENTURY, BECAME SUBJECT TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE. THE FIRST BRITISH TERRITORIES WERE KNOWN AS THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, WHOSE ESTABLISHMENT WAS FOLLOWED BY THE MALAY KINGDOMS BECOMING BRITISH PROTECTORATES. THE TERRITORIES ON PENINSULAR MALAYSIA WERE FIRST UNIFIED AS THE MALAYAN UNION IN 1946. MALAYA WAS RESTRUCTURED AS THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA IN 1948, AND ACHIEVED INDEPENDENCE ON 31 AUGUST 1957. MALAYA UNITED WITH NORTH BORNEO, SARAWAK, AND SINGAPORE ON 16 SEPTEMBER 1963 TO BECOME MALAYSIA. LESS THAN TWO YEARS LATER IN 1965, SINGAPORE WAS EXPELLED FROM THE FEDERATION.

THE COUNTRY IS MULTI-ETHNIC AND MULTI-CULTURAL, WHICH PLAYS A LARGE ROLE IN POLITICS. ABOUT HALF THE POPULATION IS ETHNICALLY MALAY, WITH LARGE MINORITIES OF MALAYSIAN CHINESE WHICH ALSO FORM THE SECOND LARGEST COMMUNITY OF OVERSEAS CHINESE IN THE WORLD, MALAYSIAN INDIANS, AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. THE CONSTITUTION GRANTS FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND MAKES MALAYSIA AN OFFICIALLY SECULAR STATE, WHILE ESTABLISHING ISLAM AS THE "RELIGION OF THE FEDERATION".

DESPITE BEING A MAJORITY MUSLIM COUNTRY, MALAYSIA HAS BEEN WIDELY REGARDED AS A RATHER MODERATE MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRY. THE COUNTRY HAS CASINOS AND LOTTERY CENTRES ALTHOUGH GAMBLING IS PROHIBITED AMONG THE MUSLIMS UNDER THE LAW. MALAYSIA ALSO RECOGNIZES CHINESE NEW YEAR, EID AL-FITR, DIWALI AND CHRISTMAS AS FEDERAL NATIONAL HOLIDAY.

THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IS CLOSELY MODELLED ON THE WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM IS BASED ON COMMON LAW. THE HEAD OF STATE IS THE KING, KNOWN AS THE YANG DI-PERTUAN AGONG. HE IS AN ELECTED MONARCH CHOSEN FROM THE HEREDITARY RULERS OF THE NINE MALAY STATES EVERY FIVE YEARS. THE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT IS THE PRIME MINISTER. THE COUNTRY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IS BAHASA MALAYSIA OR COMMONLY KNOWN AS MALAY LANGUAGE. ENGLISH REMAINS AS AN ACTIVE SECOND LANGUAGE. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN MALAYSIA HAS BEEN HIGHLY RANKED AS THE SECOND BEST IN ASIA AFTER SINGAPORE AND 12TH BEST IN THE WORLD AS OF 2016