| Empire of Malaysia Kekaisaran Malaysia Timeline: Differently
OTL equivalent: Malaysia, Indonesia (Minus West Papua), Brunei, East Timor, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands | ||||||
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| Motto: Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu "Unity is Strength" |
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| Anthem: "Negaraku" "Our Country" |
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 Location of Malaysia in East Asia
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| Capital (and largest city) | Jakarta | |||||
| Other cities | Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya | |||||
| Official languages | Malay | |||||
| Other languages | Over 700 languages | |||||
| Religion | 41.1% Buddhism 25.9% Zoroastranism 17.2% Hinduism 12.7% Christianity 3.1% other |
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| Government | Federal elective parliamentary monarchy | |||||
| - | Adhirājyayā | Thibaw of Pahang | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Muhyiddin Yassin | ||||
| Legislature | Parliament | |||||
| - | Upper house | Dewan Negara (Senate) | ||||
| - | Lower house | Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) | ||||
| Establishment | ||||||
| - | Independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain | 13 November 1946 | ||||
| - | Federation of Malaysia | 14 April 1950 | ||||
| - | Communist Insurgency | 4 July 1962 | ||||
| - | End of Communist Insurgency | 13 January 1975 | ||||
| - | Renaming | 5 April 1991 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 1,841,123 km2 710,862 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | Estimate | 289,239,454 (2nd) | ||||
| Currency | Ringgit (RM) (MYR) | |||||
| Drives on the | left | |||||
Malaysia, officially the Empire of Malaysia (Malay: Kekaisaran Malaysia), is a country in South East Asia. Its territory comprises most of the Malay archipelago (except for the Philippines and New Guinea) and the southern portion of the Malay Peninsula (except for the city-state of Singapore). Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore and Vietnam. Island Malaysia shares maritime borders with Melanesia.
With over 289 million inhabitants, Malaysia is the world's third-most populous country, behind only China and India. Its surface area of 1.7 million square kilometers makes it the ninth-largest country in Asia and the 24th-largest in the world.
History[]
The Malaysian archipelago has been a valuable region for trade since at least the 7th century when Srivijaya and later Majapahit traded with entities from mainland China and the Indian subcontinent. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign influences from the early centuries, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Christianity was introduced through European explorers. The Dutch would gradually occupy the region, bringing it under the Control of the Dutch East Indies.
During the Dutch conquest of the Greater Malay archipelago, the native kingdoms retreated north, allying themselves with each other and the British to prevent further Dutch expansion. The Malay Peninsula, meanwhile, would come under the control of the British following the end of Dutch colonization. Unlike the term "British India", which excludes the Indian princely states, British Malaya is often used to refer to the Federated and Unfederated Malay States, which were British protectorates with their own local rulers, as well as the Straits Settlements, which were under the sovereignty and direct rule of the British Crown, after a period of control by the East India Company. With the British on Malaya and the Dutch on Java, the islands of Sumatra and Borneo under Hindu-Buddhist control. The Majapahit established themselves on Sumatra, forming the rump state of Sumatra, and the Brunei Empire was established on the Island of Borneo.
British Malaya gained independence in 1946 as the Malayan Union, which was replaced by the Federation of Malaya in 1948. In 1950, during an attempt to unite the Malay nations of Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo, the three nations united to form the Federation of Malaysia. Dutch decolonization of Java and Timor began soon after and one by one the post-Colonial kingdoms left by the Dutch joined the Federation, forming the current size of the nation.
In 1962, the Kingdom of Sarawak broke out in revolution, starting the Communist Insurgency in Sarawak. The Insurgency soon spread to the rest of Borneo, causing over 100,000 deaths across the island. Due to this the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Sukarno, initiated martial law that declared himself Prime Minister for Life. The Communist Insurgency was crushed by 1975 and Martial Law was disbanded.
In 1987, Prime Minister Mahathir Siddhartha put in action the nationalist plan, Wawasan Nusantara. This plan included the consolidation of power into Kuala Lumpur and the gradual development of a unitary state. Due to public opposition, Wawasan Nusantara was never completed. However, Malaysia continued to grow towards a strong union of semi-autonomous nations and away from a loose confederation of sovereign nations. In 1991, the Federation of Malaysia was renamed to the Empire of Malaysia.
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