The total land area of Malaysia is 329,847 square kilometres (127,350 sq mi), the 67th largest country in the world in terms of area.[6] It is the only country to contain land on both mainland Asia and the Malay archipelago.[3] Peninsular Malaysia makes up 132,090 square kilometres (51,000 sq mi),[1] or 39.7% of the country's land area, while East Malaysia covers 198,847 square kilometres (76,780 sq mi), or 60.3%. From the total land area, 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi) or 0.37% is made up of water such as lakes, rivers, or other internal waters. Malaysia has a total coastline of 4,675 kilometres (2,905 mi), and Peninsular Malaysia has 2,068 kilometres (1,285 mi), while East Malaysia has 2,607 kilometres (1,620 mi) of coastline.[6] Malaysia has the 29th longest coastline in the world. The two distinct parts of Malaysia, separated from each other by the South China Sea, share a largely similar landscape in that both West (Peninsula) and East Malaysia feature coastal plains rising to hills and mountains.[6]
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This video showing night lights over the Malay Peninsula was taken by the crew of Expedition 28 on board the International Space Station.
Peninsula Malaysia covers the southern half of the Malay Peninsula,[3] and extends 740 kilometres (460 mi) from north to south, and its maximum width is 322 kilometres (200 mi).[1] It is mountainous, with more than half of it over 150 metres (492 ft) above sea level.[3] About half of Peninsular Malaysia is covered by granite and other igneous rocks, a third more is covered by stratified rocks older than the granite, and the remainder is covered by alluvium.[7] Harbours are only available on the peninsula's western side,[1] and the most fertile land occur...
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...Kedah, and Penang Island in Penang. The largest island shared with another country is Borneo, followed by Sebatik Island. In addition, Malaysia lies within the world's coral reef distribution.[15] The reefs can be usually found around islands such as Sipadan Island, Swallow Reef, and Redang Island.[citation needed] Sipadan Island, an underwater mountain, is Malaysia's only oceanic island.[16]
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The southernmost point of Malaysia is located in the district of Serian in Sarawak. Tanjung Piai on the southern tip of Johor is the southernmost point in Peninsular, and thus of the whole of continental Eurasia.[17][18] The easternmost point is found on the tip of Dent Peninsular in Lahad Datu district in Sabah. The northernmost point is found on the northern tip of Banggi Island. The westernmost point is found on the western tip of Pulau Langkawi in Kedah.
Today Malaysia and Singapore are geographically the same rich tropical and dynamic economy, with the same geographic problems. A health problem, with some endemic malaria, has been checked, which transformed their economy and way of life by understanding their environment. Almost eradicating malaria from their land shows what an understanding of geography and history can do.
The question that I will be answering for my coursework is which is best at protecting the Northumberland coastline – groynes or beach nourishment. I will be going to Blyth beach also I will be visiting Newbiggen beach I am investigating the Northumberland coastline as part of my geography coursework also because I live in the UK and I want to see how safe the people of the UK are with the safety of the coastline and its defences against coastal erosion. We will be visiting the Northumberland coastline on Thursday the 15th of May 2014.
Malaysia was once a colonized land and known as Malaya back then. Malaysia is one of the Commonwealth countries, which means Malaysia was one of the British colonies.
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is surely the longest and successful Prime Minister that Malaysia ever has, servicing to the nation for the 22 years enough to put him among the longest Prime Minister that hold onto that position in this region. But does he is a great Malaysian leader? This paper will discuss what are among the criteria that can put him on the same level with the greatest leader that the world ever witness such as ......... To further discuss on this topic, this paper will review on what the orientalist and also the local authors have wrote about him throughout his career as a politician and as well as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. In order to narrow down the scope, this paper will focus on how Tun Dr.Mahathir manage the country in term of the economy and development of Malaysia, the foreign policies that has been made during his time and also the assertion of Mahathir’s power in administration.
IFAD (2014) contends that PLUP is a “process that results in a land-use plan or several land-use plans for a given goal, objective or set of objectives” (p. 1). It is an interactive and integrated process to realize high level of participation in land use planning projects and most importantly, to provide local community greater control over the process of development. Its role is to bring actors together for the purpose of developing a common vision and to agree upon a way forward – as part of this, tenure security could be improved. In particular, it provides an opportunity for marginalized groups to take part in project development process. Moreover, PLUP provides information and direction to the concerned community and to decision makers
There are two forms of constitution involves in Malaysia which is Federal Constitution and State Constitution.
Land conversion has been present and rampant in the Philippines for the past few years especially in areas surrounding Metro Manila. To clarify the term land conversion, it is defined by the Department of Agrarian Reform as “the act of authorizing the change of the current use of a piece of land into some other use” (Nantes 130). In this context, it would be focus on the conversion of agricultural land into some other use.
Singapore gained its independence in 1965.It has been growing gradually and increasingly in the economy. I is now included among the world’s most competitive economies. This was made possible by being an public business globally, with a good business environment and a substantial political market, making it a popular country to invest in globally.
Malaysia biggest problem is the environmental pollution. Although people already know how harmful these things are but they still go on. The three main pollution that happen in Malaysia are air pollution, water pollution and land pollution. Mostly pollution effect by the air conditional that release CFC’s gasses, rubbish that been thrown to the rival and open burning. All of this pollution will be link to all kind of diseases, sickness, bacteria and virus. For an example lung cancer that will happen to people cause by breathing the polluted air that been create by Malaysian themselves.
It has three major island groups which are the Luzon, the largest island and where the capital is located; Visayan, and Mindanao. Eleven islands make up 94 percent of the Philippine landmass, and two of these--Luzon and Mindanao--measure 105,000 and 95,000 square kilometers, respectively. They, together with the cluster of the Visayan Islands that separate them, represent the three principal regions of the archipelago (many scattered islands in a large body of water) that are identified by the three stars on the Philippine flag.
The borders of Indonesia is Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and South China Sea in north, Papua New Guinea in east, and Indian Ocean in west and south. Timor Leste also the border of Indonesia in southeast since 1999. As
The changing aspects of land use and land cover especially cropping pattern is affected through bio-physical, socio-economic and ecological drivers. Land use and land cover analysis is an interdisciplinary approach to analyse the different problems that can be identified through scientific and cultural study and it is more decisive for qualitative and quantitative evaluation. land use of an area depends upon soil, climate, hydrological characteristics and prevailing socio-economic conditions. The man-land relationship is well developed in the rural environment where cultivation forms the primary occupation of the people. This research paper mainly focuses on socio economic drivers that play a major role in transforming current land
Papua New Guinea is located on the island of New Guinea in the south Pacific ocean. That island is the second largest island on earth after after Greenland. Papua New Guinea’s territory contains the entire eastern side of the island and shares it with West Papua which controls the western part of the island. New Guinea also controls hundreds of other islands around the island of New Guinea. Other then Australia to the South, Indonesia, and Singapore to the West, there are many smaller neighboring islands in the are surrounding area.
...wn, 2013) Malaysia beaches are special and famous because local people well maintain and is close to the jungle. So the tourist can do jungle trekking or hiking. Monsoon season is between October to February and the east coast resort will close down.