Asia–Pacific
Malaysia
Capital: Kuala Lumpur
- 35MPopulation
- 22MMuslim
- 63%Muslim share
- $12,500GDP per person
- 3.4%Unemployment
- 6%In poverty
- 95%Literacy
- 76Life expectancy
- System
- constitutional monarchy
- In power
- PM Anwar Ibrahim; King Sultan Ibrahim
- Currency
- ringgit
- In the UN since
- 1,957
Life today
Film cities, anime-loving youth, the world's best squash player for a decade; strong tech industry.
Word on the street
TikTok Shop and Grab; lah ends every other sentence.
Names the world knows
- Mahathir Mohamad statesman
- Anwar Ibrahim prime minister
- Nicol David squash legend
- Siti Nurhaliza singer
Did you know?
Malaysia wrote the first space-prayer guidelines for a Muslim astronaut (2007).