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- Malaysia
Entry Geographic Name
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 223014
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: DNLM
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20210314201343.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
- fixed length control field: 990101 n ancnnbabn || ana
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: DNLM
- Transcribing agency: DNLM
072 ## - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
- Subject category code: Z1.
- Subject category code subdivision: 252.
- Subject category code subdivision: 145.
- Subject category code subdivision: 487
151 ## - HEADING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Geographic name: Malaysia
451 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Control subfield: nnna
- Geographic name: Federation of Malaya
451 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Control subfield: nnna
- Geographic name: Malay Federation
451 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Control subfield: nnna
- Geographic name: Malay Peninsula
451 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Control subfield: nnna
- Geographic name: Malaya
451 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Control subfield: nnna
- Geographic name: Malaya Federation
451 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Control subfield: nnna
- Geographic name: Sabah
451 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
- Control subfield: nnna
- Geographic name: Sarawak
680 ## - PUBLIC GENERAL NOTE
- Explanatory text: 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)