Map of Malaysia

Malaysia is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 2.5° N, 112.5° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Brunei, Indonesia and Thailand — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Malaysia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Malaysia shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Malaysia covers about 330,803 km² (127,724 sq mi). That makes it the 68th-largest country in the world by area and the 20th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 29 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 34,231,700, the 44th-largest in the world and the 18th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Malaysia has an average population density of about 103 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 18th by population and 20th by area.

The seat of government is Kuala Lumpur, and the official currency is the Malaysian ringgit (MYR, RM), and the main official languages are English and Malay. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+08:00.

Malaysia carries the ISO country codes MY and MYS, dials on the international calling code +60 and uses the .my internet domain.

Malaysia shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Indonesia (capital Jakarta, about 284,438,782 people), Thailand (capital Bangkok, about 65,859,640 people) and Brunei (capital Bandar Seri Begawan, about 455,500 people).

By area, Malaysia is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 2.5° N, 112.5° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Malaysia within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kuala Lumpur. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Malaysia lies about 278 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Malaysia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+08:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +08:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Malaysian ringgit (MYR, RM).

The official languages are English and Malay, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +60 and websites commonly use the .my internet domain.

In short, Malaysia is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has a population of about 34,231,700 and covers around 330,803 km² (127,724 sq mi), ranking it 44th in the world by population and 68th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Malaysia.

The flag of Malaysia is composed of fourteen equal horizontal bands of red alternating with white. A blue rectangle, bearing a fly-side facing yellow crescent and a fourteen-pointed yellow star placed just outside the crescent opening, is superimposed in the canton.

The flag of Malaysia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.