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WEST MALAYSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Malaysia mean? 

WEST MALAYSIA (noun)
  The noun WEST MALAYSIA has 1 sense:

1. the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the northplay

  Familiarity information: WEST MALAYSIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WEST MALAYSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "West Malaysia"):

Kuala Lumpur (the largest city and former capital of Malaysia until 2005)

Malacca (the third smallest Malaysian state; located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula)

Penang (the second smallest Malaysian state; located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia)

Perlis (the smallest Malaysian state; located at the northern part of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia)

Negeri Sembilan (one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia; located on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia)

Terengganu (sultanate and one of the 13 states of the Federation of Malaysia)

Selangor; Perak; Pahang; Kelantan; Kedah; Johor; Johore (sultanate and one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia)

Domain member region:

godown ((in India and Malaysia) a warehouse)

Holonyms ("West Malaysia" is a part of...):

Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia (a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957)

Malay Peninsula (a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar)


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