Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (Malay :Semenanjung Tanah Melayu, Thai :คาบสมุทรมลายู) is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia, with its narrowest point at the Isthmus of Kra. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its teminus, is the most southern point of the Asian mainland. The Straits of Malacca separates the Malay Peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra while the south coast is separated from the island of Singapore by the Straits of Johor.
The area is currently divided politically and contains territory affiliated with the following countries:
Malaysia
Myanmar
Singapore
Thailand
The Malay term Tanah Melayu, literally meaning 'Malay Soil' is generally used by the local Malays and occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realized with the creation of Malaysia. There is also a Malay minority in Singapore, an island city-state with a Chinese majority that immigrated to the island during the British colonial era.
See also
Malay archipelago
Titiwangsa Mountains
Kra Isthmus
Indochina
Translation
The phrase "Malay Peninsula" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Simple English.
Translation(s) in other languages: Bosnian: Malajsko poluostrvo, Bulgarian: Малака, Catalan: Península de Malacca, Chuvash: Малай çурутравĕ, Czech: Malajský poloostrov, Danish: Malayahalvøen, German: Malaiische Halbinsel, Estonian: Malaka poolsaar, Spanish: Península de Malaca, Esperanto: Malaja duoninsulo, Basque: Malaysiar penintsula, Persian: شبه جزیره مالایا, French: Péninsule Malaise, Korean: 말레이 반도, Croatian: Malajski poluotok, Indonesian: Semenanjung Malaya, Icelandic: Malakkaskagi, Italian: Penisola malese, Hebrew: חצי האי המלאי, Swahili: Rasi ya Malay, Lithuanian: Malakos pusiasalis, Latvian: Malakas pussala, Hungarian: Maláj-félsziget, Malay: Tanah Melayu, Dutch: Malakka (schiereiland), Japanese: マレー半島, Norwegian (Bokmål): Malayahalvøya, Norwegian (Nynorsk): Malayahalvøya, Khmer: ឧបទ្វីបម៉ាឡេ, Polish: Półwysep Malajski, Portuguese: Península da Malásia, Romanian: Peninsula Malacca, Russian: Малакка (полуостров), Slovenian: Malajski polotok, Serbian: Малајско полуострво, Serbo-Croatian: Malajski poluotok, Finnish: Malakan niemimaa, Swedish: Malackahalvön, Thai: คาบสมุทรมลายู, Ukrainian: Малакка (півострів), Vietnamese: Bán đảo Mã Lai, Turkish: Malay Yarımadası, Wu: 马来亚半岛, Chinese: 马来半岛.
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