Malaysia

Facts

What the numbers say about Malaysia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 51.8× the size of Malaysia.
• Malaysia ranks 43rd of 237 by population but only 68th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 104 people per km², Malaysia is the 66th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Malaysia lies at 4°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Malaysia's main territory stretches about 25,500 km north to south and 25,500 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 331,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 328,000 km², to within 2%.

How Malaysia measures up

Malaysia holds 1.1% of the land area and 0.7% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In South-Eastern Asia it is the 5th largest of 11.

Where Malaysia sits

• Malaysia's centre lies at 3.8°N, 109.7°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 420 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 1°N to 7°N, about 720 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Malaysia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Malaysia would have 410.7 million people. It has 34.2 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Malaysia would have 1.2 million people. It has 34.2 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 23.7 million.

Compare Malaysia

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