A parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch in southeast Asia, consisting of 11 states (West Malaysia) on the Malay Peninsula and two states (East Malaysia) on the island of BORNEO. It is also called the Federation of Malaysia. Its capital is Kuala Lumpur. Before 1963 it was the Union of Malaya. It reorganized in 1948 as the Federation of Malaya, becoming independent from British Malaya in 1957 and becoming Malaysia in 1963 as a federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore (which seceded in 1965). The form Malay- probably derives from the Tamil malay, mountain, with reference to its geography. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p715 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p329)
    

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Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.

Sarawak: people of a Long Pokun tribe from the Upper Tinjar region. Photograph.

Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.

Kuching, Sarawak: the Astana, a partly castellated building. Photograph.

The prevention of malaria in the Federated Malay States / by Malcolm Watson; with a preface by Ronald Ross.

Specifying fevers : positioning Malaya's health lobbies (1867-1941) / Liew Kai Khiun.

On the arachnida collected by the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by Eugène Simon.

Eastern approaches.

A short key to both sexes of the anopheline species of India, Ceylon, and Malaya / by C. Strickland.

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The prevention of malaria in the Federated Malay States / by Malcolm Watson; with a preface by Ronald Ross.

Specifying fevers : positioning Malaya's health lobbies (1867-1941) / Liew Kai Khiun.

On the arachnida collected by the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by Eugène Simon.

Eastern approaches.

A short key to both sexes of the anopheline species of India, Ceylon, and Malaya / by C. Strickland.