Information about Malaysia (Wikipedia CIA GOV) in one page is provided by Wanita Dot Us Webmaster. As a Malaysian this simple in one page information about Malaysia is a way to help people around the world to get the most up to date and right information about Malaysia.

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Malaysia consist of two land masses located at an peninsula of South East Asia (peninsular Malaysia), including states of Sarawak and Sabah on the island of Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) is located south of Thailand, while East Malaysia, stretches along the northern region of Borneo. This two Malaysia land masses are separated by the South China Sea.

Peninsular Malaysia include 11 different states, namely Perlis, Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Johor, Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan. Along with the two Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. East Malaysia consist of states of Sarawak and Sabah and one Federal Territory of Labuan.

Malaysia located within longitudes 100 Degree and 119 Degree East and latitude 7 Degree North of the Equator with hot weather. Malaysia with beautiful tropical rain forest dating back to 130 million years, covering  almost 80 percent of Malaysia or 90 percent Malaysia when included with agriculture plantation like rubber and oil palm trees.

Climate between 21 to 32 Degree Celsius with high humidity, the only variation being its dry and wet seasons and heavy rains occur normally between November to February. It is much more cooler in the highlands like Genting Highland, Fraser Hill and Cameron Highland. Visit Jabatan Kaji Cuaca for current weather information or in Malaysia dial 1052 from any land telephone for weather forecast.

Blessed with diverse scenic tropical beauty, it offers challenging tropical jungle mountains, exotic underwater marine life, sweeping coastlines that cover four seas, fascinating tropical and mangrove forests and exotic cultures. Malaysia is most visited for it green landscape and forest heaven.

Our border consist of Thailand and the northern of the peninsula and Singapore at the southern of it. Indonesia covering most of the border including western border divided by the Strait of Melaka and Eastern border, part of Borneo Island this including Brunei.

Malaysia timezone is eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or Asia/Kuala Lumpur for Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) and 16 hours ahead of United States Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Malaysian Ringgit(RM) is our offical currency with 100 sen making one ringgit. The Malaysia ringgit notes in circulation are in RM100, RM50, RM10, RM5 (Polymer note), RM2 and RM1. Coins in circulations 50 Sen, 20 Sen, 10 Sen, 5 Sen and 1 Sen. For RM1 coins, Since 2005  is not in circulation. Don't accept it since it is not a valid tender. Visit Bank Negara Malaysia Website for more details.

Exchange rate is around RM3.50 to RM3.80 to One US Dolar (US$1). Check the rate information at http://www.maybank2u.com/ one of Malaysian major bank. Click on the FOREX rates link in the main page.

Major credit cards like Mastercard and Visa are freely used and accepted . Just make sure to call your bank or credit card company, to check your type of card is acceptable in Malaysia. Malaysia are using chip base card to protect from fraud cases. Travellers cheques can be exchanged for Malaysian Ringgit at commercial banks, hotels and authorised money changers.

Having Credit Card from major bank like Citybank and HSBC , is a major advantages. Get your country branch to contact there counter part here in Malaysia to make sure a continuous service when you have  arrive in Malaysia.

The multiracial population of Malaysia totals 25.3 Million in 2005, comprising three major ethnic groups namely Malays, Chinese and Indian, as well as other minority groups. Bahasa Melayu is the national and official language, while English is widely spoken.

Islam is the official religion but the constitution guarantees the right of people to practise other religions.

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