UNIT 3: Neighboring Countries

• ​​Constitutional Monarchy

• ​Part of Southeast Asia

• South China Sea

• Divided into two regions

• ​West Malaysia

• East Malaysia

• Federation of ​13 States

• ​Kuala Lumpur as Capital CIty and Largest City

• ​Peninsular Malaysia

• ​Sothern portion and nearby islands

• ​Thailand on the North

• ​Singapore on the South

• ​The northern section of Borneo Island and Offshore Islands

• ​Shares Borneo with Brunei

• ​They were under the colony of Great Britain from 18th to 19th Century

• ​Malay people

• ​Chinese and Indians immigrated to Malaysia

• ​Ethnic Tension in 1957 after the independence

• ​Multi-ethnic & multi-cultural

• ​Half of Population is Ethnically Malay

• ​Large minorities of Malay-Chinese, Malay-Indians & Indigenous Peoples

• ​Islam as ttheir established religion

​- People who lived in Malaysia

• ​Westminster Parliamentary

• ​The Head of the state is King

​ - Yang di-Pertuan Agong

​ - Elected monarch chosen from

​ the hereditary rulers of the

9 Malay states every 5 years

• ​The head of the government is the Prime Minister

• ​Malaysian is the official language

• ​Ringgit is the official currency

• ​Westminster Parliamentary

• ​The Head of the state is King

​ - Yang di-Pertuan Agong

​ - Elected monarch chosen from

​ the hereditary rulers of the

9 Malay states every 5 years

• ​The head of the government is the Prime Minister

• ​Malaysian is the official language

• ​Ringgit is the official currency

• Inhabited for as long as 40,000 years ago

• ​Early history is unclear

• Almost no archeological remains

• Early contacts were made with China

• Traders spread Hindu influences from India

• ​Sumatran Prince founded the kingdom of Malacca

• ​He was converted to Islam

• ​Malacca became center for the spread of Muslim faith

• ​Malaca prospered and expanded

• ​Was eventually conquered in 1511 by the Portuguese.

• ​In 1641, they fell to the Dutch who replaced the Portuguese.

• ​In this period of time, Northern Malay Kingdoms were frequently under the influence of Siam (present-day Thailand)

• ​Came in the 18th Century to trade and check French power in the Indian Ocean

• ​Sultan of Kedah rented out the Island of Pinang to the English East Inda Company in 1786

• ​Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore in 1819 under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1819

• ​Britain secured Malacca from the Dutch and gave up its claims to Sumatra and smaller nearby islands

• Singapore, Pinang, and Malacca were then governed by Britain.

• Malaysia​ was occupied by the Japanese during World War II