Source: The World Factbook
| Area: | 329,750 sq km |
| Capital: | Kuala Lumpur |
| Geographic coordinates: | 2 30 N, 112 30 E |
| Climate: | tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons |
| Government: | constitutional monarchy |
| Currency: | ringgit (MYR) |
| Literacy(%): | 88.7 |
| Languages: | Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai; note - in addition, in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken, the largest are Iban and Kadazan |
| Ethnicity/race: | Malay and other indigenous, Chinese, Indian, others |
| Religions: | Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, Christian, Sikh; note - in addition, Shamanism is practiced in East Malaysia |