Name: 地理Now!マレーシア (Geography Now! MALAYSIA)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:46:10.000Z
Duration: 13 min 26 s
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Well, here we go! Ever since I made the Indonesia episode,

you have no idea how many Malaysians were like "Okay now that you did our cousin's episode. Do not mess with ours"

Oh, don't worry Malaysia and here to reassure you. I made you some nasi goreng.

Hey everybody, I'm your host Barbs. How refreshing? We are back in Southeast Asia and today after Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia

We are doing the last country in the Nusantara Archipelago, Malaysia! Ahem...

Oh, sorry didn't see you there Singapore. You're so small. So what do the Malaysians bring to the table that the others don't?

Well, let's find out in the first segment. Cue transition!

Now this is gonna be really fun, because Malaysia's land has so many unique twists and turns and explaining it's you know,

it's kind of like doing a Rubik's Cube blindfolded. Right Ken? -Right. Yeah. -Yeah, you got it

-I don't know. Did I? -You got it. -Cool!

Uh, can I have my lunch break now? -Ken, you know, I don't speak Tagalog. Back to the coal mines.

First of all, Malaysia is located in Southeast Asia divided into two main parts Peninsular Malaysia, (with) about 40 percent of land,

which also has the southernmost tip of mainland Asia, Tanjung Piai,

While East Malaysia or Malaysian Borneo takes about 60% of the country's land on the island of Borneo,

making it one of the only two islands shared by three nations along with Cyprus

If you want to be technical Cyprus kind of has four including the UN buffer zone,

but you get the point. Just watch the Cyprus episode.

Keep in mind, about 80 percent of the population lives on the peninsula, while only about 20 percent live on Malaysian Borneo. In addition the

country has over 870 islands off its shores. The state of Sabah having the most with nearly

400. The largest one being Banggi Island,

however, the island of Sebatik is a little bigger, but the island is split in half with Indonesia in the south.

they have a little bit of a dispute with the Philippines in the east. The country is divided into 13 states and three federal

territories who Putrajaya, Labuan with the capital Kuala Lumpur, however

due to overcrowding, almost all the government ministries and administrative offices were moved to Putrajaya in

1999. After Kuala Lumpur, the next largest cities are Georgetown on Penang Island and Ipoh.

The busiest airports are Kuala Lumpur International Kota Kinabalu and Penang internationals.

Here's the thing: Malaysia lies under the South China Sea.

If you don't know anything about this place and if you didn't watch the Brunei episode, it basically goes like this:

Basically, every country in this area wants a piece of these things called the Spratly Islands. Today

Malaysia has claimed to about eleven of them and the most notable one being Layang Layang, which they built an airbase on. Now

you might notice that it's interesting how these two small entities Singapore and Brunei got mixed up into this whole region.

Well when it came to Brunei, it kind of went down like this:

-Welcome to the Malaysia agreement. Sultans, please sign the paper saying you'd like to be part of Malaysia.

-Wait, I have to give up that? And and I'd have to lose control of

what? Oh hell no! As for Singapore, it was more like: -Hey Malaysia! You just got free from British rule!

Let's join up. -Makes sense? Yeah, we are now one country

You have too many Chinese people! And you're gonna waste my money!

-Yeah well you only give priviledges to the Malays! -You know what? You're out of the club! -Yeah fine, you know, whatever. I quit! One day,

You know what? I'm gonna make something up myself! -Okay! -And boy howdy, did they keep that promise?

Otherwise some notable places of interest might include places like: the largest

roundabout in the world, the Petronas Towers the tallest twin buildings in the world,

Kuala Lumpur tower, the Batu caves with a Hindu shrine the National Monument of Malaysia, Legoland Malaysia. Yep,

they have one. Sunway lagoon the National Mosque of Malaysia, Kek Lok Si Buddhist temple, these

palaces, the old Dutch buildings of Malacca, the leaning tower of Teluk Intan, A Famosa fortress, the cat statue of Kuching, this Heritage Museum

Sarawak cultural villages and the Sepilok orangutan rehabilitation center. Yeah, orangutans,

they have plenty of those in here, which means we can now swing over to the next segment

they got kind of lucky because not only is it like rich and beautiful, but unlike their neighbors,

you don't really have to deal with any crazy catastrophes.

Malaysia rests comfortably on the bottom of the Eurasian Plate, literally shielded on all sides, mostly by Indonesia and the Philippines.

This means that if any earthquakes occur, Indonesia usually absorbs all of it,

if cyclones and tropical storms attack, the Philippines and Indonesia take the hit, and if a volcano erupts

they don't have to worry, because they don't really have any volcanoes, and it's probably happening in Indonesia.

even though the largest lake the Kenyir reservoir lies on the West Peninsular Malaysian side, the Eastern Malaysian

Borneo side has all the extremes. They have the highest mountain, 
Mount Kinabalu, the longest river, the Rajang and a lot more animals!

In fact, Malaysia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. They have

14,500 species of flowering plants and trees, over 600 bird species over, 200 species of mammals.

Speaking of which Peninsular Malaysia is home to the most Black Panthers in the world (insert

Wakanda joke for a long time). Speaking of that, the national animal is the Malaysian tiger,

which is also featured on the coat of arms, which we'll cover in Flag Friday. Stay tuned!

Otherwise, they have elephants, rhinos, orangutans and even have their own version of tapirs, like the ones in South America. Wow.

And that creepy looking proboscis monkey.

Many of these species you can find in one of the oldest rainforests in the world, over three times older than the Amazon, Taman Negara.

Malaysia is also a land of caves. In fact, they have the largest chamber in the world that can be found in Sarawak.

Otherwise, Malaysia is known for producing electronics, palm oil, petroleum, gas and rubber.

They're actually the second largest palm oil producer in the world and the largest

condom maker. Just saying, They even have their own national car company,

Proton, making Malaysia the 11th country in the world with the capability to fully design and engineer and manufacture cars.

Otherwise some national dishes might include things like:

Nasi Kerabu, chicken perchik, mangosteen, and durian are treasured fruits and the national dish, Nasi Lemak. Oh, if you have the chance,

see if you can witness the famous Tarik tea shows. The servers pour out tea, sometimes over a metre in length.

It's almost seen as like an art form. Okay, I think that's just about it for now in this segment.

Let's talk about the coolest part of Malaysia, the

Just for the record, the word Malay refers to the races that make up Malaysia,

Malayan is the geographic term for peoples of West Malaysia on the peninsula, and not part of Borneo, and

Malaysian is a nationality and citizenship.

So a Malay person in Singapore is Malay, but not Malaysian. And a citizen of Indian descent living in Kuala

Lumpur would be a Malaysian and Malayan, but not Malay. Got it? Probably not.

First of all, the country has about 32 million people and is one of the fastest growing nations in Asia.

The country is made up of 67% Malay or Bumiputera, indigenous Malay peoples.

We'll talk more about that in a bit. About a quarter of the population is Chinese, about seven percent are Indians, and the rest are

other groups mixed in, including a few other Asian groups and Europeans. They use the Malaysian Ringgit as their currency,

they use the type G and M plug outlets, and they drive on the left side of the road. Now, here's a thing,

No, we're not getting into an ideological debate. We're just gonna explain the system in which Malaysia's government operates

Malaysia is one of the few monarchies in the world,

It's not a monarchy in the conventional sense, because they kind of have nine

These nine states each have a royal leader known as a sultan and, every five years they rotate to allow one of the nine Sultan's

to rule as head King known as the Yang di-pertuan Agong.