Malayan Peninsula

Geographically, the Malayan peninsula (in Malayan Semenanjung Malaysia ) or peninsula of Malacca is the strip of land located in Southeast Asia which follows a North-South line and contains the southernmost point of the continent of Asia at its southern end. Its narrowest point is the Isthme of Kra. It separates the Détroit from Malacca of the southernmost China Sea. Politically, the Malayan peninsula is divided between:

the southern part of the Myanmar, which corresponds to its birth in the north,
south of the Thailand, which constitutes a central share of the peninsula,
the part of the federation of Malaysia called peninsular Malaysia or Western Malaysia (not to be confused the peninsula, geographical term),
the island of Singapore in the extreme south of the peninsula.

Traditionally, the Malais of Malaysia call Tanah Melayu , “the ground of Malayan”, the part of the peninsula which they populate. This expression has a political connotation. The creation of the federation of Malaysia in 1946 - 1948 by the British , joining together the nine traditional Malayan States and the colonies of Malacca and Penang, answered these waitings, in particular by preserving the capacity symbolic system of the Sultan S.

However, the old kingdom of Pattani makes since the 18th century left Thailand. This zone of Malayan culture and Moslem, near to the Malaysian border is disturbed by movements separatists. However there does not seem to be of request for fastening in Malaysia.

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