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The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu) (Thai: คาบสมุทรมลายู) is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia. The Malay language ( ISO 639-1 code MS is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people and people of other ethnic groups who reside in the Thai (th ภาษาไทย, transcription: phasa thai, transliteration:; pʰāːsǎːtʰāj is the national and A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by Water but connected to Mainland via an Isthmus. It is also known as the Kra Peninsula and runs approximately north-south through the Kra Isthmus. The Kra Isthmus is the narrow landbridge which connects the Malay Peninsula with the mainland of Asia.

The coastal waters are (clockwise from northeast) the Gulf of Thailand, the South China Sea (opposite Borneo), the Straits of Johor (opposite Singapore), the Straits of Singapore (along Singapore's western coasts), the Straits of Malacca (opposite Sumatra) and the Andaman Sea. The Gulf of Thailand (or Gulf of Siam) is a gulf that borders but is not part of the South China Sea ( Pacific Ocean) The South China Sea is a Marginal sea south of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. The Straits of Johor (also known as the Tebrau Strait, Johor Strait, Selat Johor, Selat Tebrau, and Tebrau Reach) is a Strait Singapore The Singapore Strait (or Straits of Singapore;) is a 105 kilometer long 16 kilometer wide Strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the Singapore The Strait of Malacca is a narrow 805 km (500 mile stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470000 km² and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two The Andaman Sea (မုတ္တမ moʊʔtəma̰ is a body of water to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Myanmar, west of Thailand and east

The area is divided politically:

the northwest is the extreme south part of Myanmar (Burma)
the central region and northeast is the south part of Thailand
the south is the part of Malaysia called Peninsular Malaysia or West Malaysia (which should not be confused with the larger Malay Peninsula). Political geography is the field of Human geography that is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of Political processes and the ways in which Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar ( pjìdàunzṵ mjàmmà nàinŋàndɔ̀ is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia. Southern Thailand is a distinct region of Thailand, connected with the Central region by the narrow Kra Isthmus. The Kingdom of Thailand (ˈtaɪlænd ราชอาณาจักรไทย, râːtɕʰa-ʔaːnaːtɕɑ̀k-tʰɑj For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and Peninsular Malaysia ( Semenanjung Malaysia) also known as Malaya or West Malaysia, is the part of Malaysia which lies on

The Malay term Tanah Melayu is still occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realized with the creation of Malaysia. Malays (Melayu are an Ethnic group of Austronesian peoples predominantly inhabiting the Malay Peninsula, the east coast of Sumatra, the coast There however remains a Malay majority in southern Thailand, as the area was formerly part of the Pattani kingdom, a Malay kingdom. The Kingdom of Thailand (ˈtaɪlænd ราชอาณาจักรไทย, râːtɕʰa-ʔaːnaːtɕɑ̀k-tʰɑj Patani (Pattani is known to have been part of the ancient Srivijayan kingdom There is also a Malay minority in Singapore, an island country with a Chinese majority that began to develop into a major city when the British leased the island from the Sultanate of Johor in 1819. Singapore The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article concerns the Sultanate of Johor For office of the sultan see Sultan of Johor. Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year

The west coast of the peninsula was especially popular among seafaring Bugis, Chinese and Indians as a stopover, leading to increased migration of the people to set up visible coastal settlements in the thirteenth century. The Bugis are the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, the southwestern province of Sulawesi, Indonesia's third largest The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following A person who resides in and holds citizenship of the People's Republic of China (including Hong The Demographics of India are overall remarkably diverse India's population of approximately 1

The Malay Peninsula may have been the peninsula recorded as Chersonesus Aurea in Roman times.

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