Introduction
Malaysia is a maritime nation, made up of the 13 states of Peninsular Malaysia (sometimes referred to as West Malaysia), Sabah and Sarawak (sometimes referred to as East Malaysia), and the Federal Territories of land-locked Kuala Lumpur and the island of Labuan (Fig. 19.2.1 ). According to EPU (1985), the Malaysian coastline (not counting the smaller islands) is 4,809 km long, made up of 1,972 km in Peninsular Malaysia, 1,035 km in Sarawak, and 1,802 km in Sabah (including Labuan). In the peninsula the more indented west coast facing the Straits of Melaka is longer than the straighter east coast facing the South China Sea.
Malaysia, comprising West (Peninsular) Malaysia and East Malaysia Sarawak and Sabah.
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Sa, T.T., Boon, Y.H. (2010). Malaysia – Introduction. In: Bird, E.C.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8639-7_208
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