The Federation
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Sixteen ways to be Malaysia.
Thirteen states and three Federal Territories, each structurally different from the national average it gets folded into. Every jurisdiction gets a first-class profile — including the territories that national datasets routinely combine or omit, which the profiles say out loud rather than papering over.
States
- JohorThe southernmost state of the peninsula, facing Singapore across the Straits of Johor.Johor Bahru
- KedahA northern border state whose plains carry much of the peninsula's rice cultivation.Alor Setar
- KelantanA northeastern state on the South China Sea, squarely in the path of the northeast monsoon.Kota Bharu
- MelakaA small coastal state on the Strait of Malacca, one of the peninsula's oldest port settlements.Melaka City
- Negeri SembilanA west-coast state directly south of the Klang Valley, increasingly within its commuter orbit.Seremban
- PahangThe peninsula's largest state, spanning the central highlands to the east-coast shoreline.Kuantan
- PenangAn island-and-mainland state on the northwest coast, among the most densely settled in the country.George Town
- PerakA large west-coast state whose valleys carried the peninsula's tin-mining century.Ipoh
- PerlisThe smallest state in Malaysia, on the Thai border at the peninsula's northwestern tip.Kangar
- SabahThe eastern Bornean state, rising from coral coastline to the highest peak in the country.Kota Kinabalu
- SarawakThe largest state in Malaysia, stretched along Borneo's northwest coast and its river systems.Kuching
- SelangorThe state wrapped around the capital, and the country's most populous.Shah Alam
- TerengganuAn east-coast state on the South China Sea, its economy tied to offshore oil and gas.Kuala Terengganu
Federal Territories
- Kuala LumpurThe federal capital — a territory of its own, enclosed entirely by Selangor.Kuala Lumpur
- LabuanAn island Federal Territory off the Sabah coast, run as an international financial centre.Victoria
- PutrajayaThe planned administrative capital, a Federal Territory carved out of Selangor in 2001.Putrajaya
Profiles currently carry the live climate reading where the reference network covers the jurisdiction. As each new topic chapter is published, its state-level data joins these pages — population first.