What the records say
- When
- 1957
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Malaya
- Coordinates
- 2.53° N, 113.84° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 6279000
- Area km2
- 131287
- Gaining
- Malaysia
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Federation of Malaya
Country in Southeast Asia (1948–1963)
Malaya, officially the Federation of Malaya, was a country in Southeast Asia from 1948 to 1963. It succeeded the Malayan Union and, before that, British Malaya. It comprised eleven states – nine Malay states and two of the Straits Settlements, Penang and Malacca. It was established on the 1st of February 1948.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation