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"Malaysia is our country ..."
Be proud of our country;
For this charming land is our home;
The place where your dreams are built upon...;
The perfect shelter we call paradise;
Enriched is this land with natural resources;
Forget not we are Malaysian...;
We have faith in freedom and tolerence;
In harmony and peace we shall always live.
By Ivan Lim...5/6/04  (Hey... I love my country too dude)
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Offical Name: |
Malaysia |
| Capital City: |
Kuala Lumpur |
| Population: |
23,092,940
(July 2003 est.) |
| GDP Per Capita:
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$8,800 (2002
est.) |
| Currency: |
ringgit
(MYR) |
| Languages: |
Bahasa Melayu
(official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi,
Thai; note - in addition, in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken, the largest are Iban and Kadazan |
| Total Area: |
329,750
sq km slightly larger than New Mexico |
| Industries: |
Peninsular
Malaysia - rubber and oil palm processing and manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining and smelting,
logging and processing timber; Sabah - logging, petroleum production; Sarawak - agriculture processing, petroleum production
and refining, logging |
| Agriculture: |
Peninsular
Malaysia - rubber, palm oil, cocoa, rice; Sabah - subsistence crops, rubber, timber, coconuts, rice; Sarawak - rubber, pepper;
timber |
| Resources: |
tin, petroleum,
timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite |
| Labor Force: |
9.9 million
(2001 est.) |
| Exports: |
electronic
equipment, petroleum and liquefied natural gas, wood and wood products, palm oil, rubber, textiles, chemicals (2000) |
| Imports: |
electronics,
machinery, petroleum products, plastics, vehicles, iron and steel products, chemicals (2000) | 
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