Malaysia
By: Savanna Richter
Basic Information
- The population for Malaysia is 30,073,353
- Their government type is Constitutional Monarchy
- The basic languages for Malaysia are Bahasa Malaysia, English, Chinese, and Thai
- The Capital is Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian Culture
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Malaysian people traditionally wear Malay attire is the "baju melayu." It is a loose tunic that is worn over trousers and accompanied with a "sapin," that is wrapped around men's hips and they mostly wear "songkok" that is a hat that goes on their head. Women wear a "baju kurung" it is knee-length blouse worn with a scarf or shawl also they wear a "kemban" that is tied above the chest.
Malaysia's education is pretty good! Their literacy rate for both girls and boys is 95% for all people over the age of 15. Each state has an Education Department to coordinate educational matters. The main legislation of governing education was the act of 1996, they provided free education. In Malaysia there is 37 private universities and 20 private university colleges, seven foreign university branch campuses and 414 private colleges.
Geography
The climate is both peninsular and insular. Malaysia has about the same tropical latitudes, same temperatures, heavy rainfall and climactic pattern. The climactic year are the Northeast monsoons its from November to December or March. The Inter monsoonal period is from March to April or May. Southwest Monsoons are in the time period from May or June to September or early October. The second Inter Monsoonal period is from October through November. In Malaysia the temperatures are normally high, on average it is 80 degrees, the low in the east is about 70 degrees and rains approximately 100 inches of rain.
Some plants you can find in Malaysia are mostly found in the Dense Evergreen Rain forest. Rain forests cover about two thirds of Sarawak and Sabah. The Flora is among the richest in the world. Malaysian rain forests have more than 2,000 tree species, known to the largest known flower, it is three feet and one foot in diameter.
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