| NAME: |
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| LOCATION: |
Asia |
| GOVERNMENT: |
Constitutional Monarchy |
| OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: |
Bahasa Malaysia is the official language and spoken throughout the country. Chinese (various dialects), Tamil, Thai, English and several ethnic and regional dialects are spoken as well. |
| MAJOR RELIGION(S): |
52% Muslim, 17% Buddhist, 12% Taoist, 8% Christian, 8% Hindu, 2% tribal with Shamanism mostly practiced in East Malaysia. |
| MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: |
Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, Indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8%. |
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