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Malaysia is two landmasses under one flag, a peninsula running south from Thailand and the northern third of Borneo, with six hundred kilometres of the South China Sea between them. The first question about any place in the country is which side of that water it is on, and the second is which of its sixteen first-level divisions it belongs to.
Thirteen states and three federal territories. Nine of the peninsula's states have hereditary rulers, which is why their borders are older and more irregular than those of the two Bornean states, Sabah and Sarawak. The federal territories are administered directly by the central government: Kuala Lumpur, the capital, Putrajaya, the administrative capital built beside it, and Labuan, an island off the coast of Sabah.
Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya are small and sit inside Selangor, so each has a tap area wider than its shape. Perlis, Penang and Labuan are the other small answers, and Penang is two pieces: the island and a strip of mainland opposite it.
The groups are the regions the tourist board uses. The east coast is Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang, facing the South China Sea, and East Malaysia is Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan. The states are the districts of Malaysia Districts dissolved, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
The map is drawn where the country is, so the frame is wide: the peninsula is on the left and Borneo on the right, and the sea between them is empty.
Labuan is a federal territory made of one island and a few islets in Brunei Bay, just off the coast of Sabah. It is the smallest answer on the Bornean side and the only one that is not part of Sabah or Sarawak.
Kuala Lumpur is not part of Selangor, although Selangor surrounds it and was where the city began. It became a federal territory in 1974, and the state capital moved to Shah Alam.
Sarawak is the largest state by a wide margin, nearly as large as the whole peninsula, and it takes up the whole west of the Malaysian side of Borneo.
Thirteen states and three federal territories, sixteen first-level divisions in all. Eleven states and two of the territories are on the peninsula, and Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan are in Borneo.
A division run by the central government rather than by a state. Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan are the three, and each is an answer here.
Because it is drawn where the country is. The peninsula and Borneo are about six hundred kilometres apart, and the frame has to hold both.
The tier below this one is Malaysia Districts, whose states are the groups there. For another country at this level, see Indonesia Provinces.
