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Malaysia is easily accessible to the rest of the world through its international airport in Kuala Lumpur. Or if YOU want to hop from another country in the region, daily flights to Malaysia's many smaller airports give you access to all parts of the country, and you can also travel by car, bus, or train from Singapore or Thailand. In this section, P11 run through your options and get you started.

Malaysia's territory covers peninsular Malaysia-bordering Thailand in the north just across from Singapore in the south-and two states on the island of Borneo, Sabah and Sarawak, approximately 240km (150 miles) eastacross the South China Sea. All thirteen of its states total 336,700 sq. km (202,020 sq. miles) of land. Of this area, Peninsular Malaysia makes up about 465,000 sq. km (134,680 sq. miles) and contains 11 of Malaysia's 13 states: Kedah, Perlis, Penang, and Perak are in the northwest; Kelantan and Terengganu are in the northeast; Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, and Melaka are about midway down the peninsula on the western side; Pahang, along the east coast, sprawls inward to cover most of the central area (which is mostly forest preserve); and Johor covers the entire southern tip from east to west, with two vehicular causeways linking it to Singapore, just over the Strait of Johor. Kuala Lumpur, the nation's capital, appears on a map to be located in the center of the state of Selangor, but it is actually a federal district similar to Washington, D.C., in the United States.

On Borneo, Sarawak and Sabah share the landmass with Indonesia's Kalimantan. Also sharing the island, in a tiny nook on the Sarawak coast, is the tiny oil-rich Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam.
Back on the peninsula, the major cities can he found closer to the coastline, many having built on old trade or mining settlements, usually near one of Malaysia's many rivers.
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