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A horizontal bicolour of red and white; charged in white in the canton with a crescent facing the fly and a pentagon of five stars representing the nation's ideals. The flag of Singapore was adopted in 1959, the year Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire. It remained the national flag upon the country's independence from ...
Singapore, [e] officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.It is about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the ...
Singapore ( Malay: Singapura ), officially the State of Singapore ( Malay: Negeri Singapura ), was one of the 14 states of Malaysia from 1963 to 1965. Malaysia was formed on 16 September 1963 by the merger of the Federation of Malaya with the former British colonies of North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore. This marked the end of the 144-year ...
Topographic map of Malaysia; Mount Kinabalu is the highest summit in the country. Malaysia is the 66th largest country by total land area, with a total area of 330,803 km 2 (127,724 sq mi). [9] It has land borders with Thailand in West Malaysia, and Indonesia and Brunei in East Malaysia. [160] It is linked to Singapore by a narrow causeway and ...
Flag of Labuan. Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and blue, there is a yellow crescent and yellow fourteen-pointed stars in the white band. 2001 onwards. Flag of Putrajaya. Three vertical bands of blue, yellow (double width), and blue with the Malaysian coat of arms in the yellow band.
The national flag of Malaysia, also known as the Stripes of Glory ( Malay: Jalur Gemilang; Jawi: جالور ݢميلڠ ), [ 1] is composed of a field of 14 alternating red and white stripes along the fly and a blue canton bearing a crescent and a 14-point star known as the Bintang Persekutuan (Federal Star). The 14 stripes, of equal width ...
Malay Singaporeans ( Malay: Orang Melayu Singapura) are Singaporeans with general ancestry from the Malay world. [ 4] They constitute approximately 13.5% of the country's residents, making them the second largest ethnic group in Singapore. [ 5] Under the Constitution of Singapore, they are recognised by the government as the indigenous people ...
The state capital of Selangor is Shah Alam, and its royal capital is Klang, Kajang is the largest municipality by total metropolitan population and Petaling Jaya is the largest municipality by total population within the city. [7] Petaling Jaya and Subang Jaya received city status in 2006 and 2019, respectively. [8]