Malaysia is a small country with a fast-growing economy. The country is made up of two main landmasses, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo. Located on a trade route in the South China Sea, the Southeast Asian country has an open, diversified, upper-middle income economy.
The country declared independence from the British Empire in 1957. the merger of the Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak to form a state called MALAYSIA is achieved on 16 September 1963. The government operating within a constitutional monarchy under the Westminster parliamentary system and is categorised as a representative democracy.
Ethnic Malays account for roughly half of Malaysia’s estimated 31 million people. Other significant groups include Chinese, Indians and various indigenous peoples.