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Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia . It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions , Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia ( Malaysian Borneo ). Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore , ___MASK92___ , and Indonesia . East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the ___MASK94___ and ___MASK92___ . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur , while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government . With a population of over 30 million , Malaysia is the 44th most populous country . The southernmost point of continental Eurasia , Tanjung Piai , is in Malaysia . Located in the tropics , Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries on earth , with large numbers of endemic species . Hanoi ( or ; Vietnamese : Hà Ni ) is the capital of ___MASK92___ and the country ' s second largest city . Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2 . 6 million for urban districts and 7 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction . The population in 2015 was estimated at 7 . 7 million people . From 1010 until 1802 , it was the most important political centre of ___MASK92___ . It was eclipsed by Hu , the imperial capital of ___MASK92___ during the Nguyn Dynasty ( 1802  1945 ), but Hanoi served as the capital of French Indochina from 1902 to 1954 . From 1954 to 1976 , it was the capital of North ___MASK92___ , and it became the capital of a reunified ___MASK92___ in 1976 , after the North ' s victory in the ___MASK16___ . The Provisional Government of Free ___MASK92___ ( GFVN ) was an unrecognized government in exile of a hypothetical Federal Republic of ___MASK92___ . It was an anti - communist political organization headquartered in the American cities of Garden Grove , California and Missouri City , Texas . The ___MASK94___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK94___ , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the ___MASK94___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South China Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK94___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . Laos , (, , or , " Lo ") officially the Lao People ' s Democratic Republic , ( Lao :          , " Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao ") or commonly referred to its colloquial name of Muang Lao ( Lao :    , " Muang Lao ") is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia , bordered by Myanmar ( Burma ) and China to the northwest , ___MASK92___ to the east , Cambodia to the southwest , and Thailand to the west and southwest . Nguyn Hu Chánh ( born 1952 ) is the Vietnamese - American founder of anti - communist organization Government of Free ___MASK92___ ( GFVN ) , in which he served as its prime minister . South ___MASK92___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK92___ was a state governing the southern half of ___MASK92___ from 1955 to 1975 . It received international recognition in 1949 as the " State of ___MASK92___ " ( 1949  55 ), and later as the " Republic of ___MASK92___ " ( 1955  75 ). Its capital was Saigon . The term " South ___MASK92___ " became common usage in 1954 , when the Geneva Conference provisionally partitioned ___MASK92___ into communist and non - communist parts . ___MASK92___ , officially the Socialist Republic of ___MASK92___ ( SRV ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia . With an estimated 90 . 5 million inhabitants , it is the world ' s 14th - most - populous country , and the eighth - most - populous Asian country . ___MASK92___ is bordered by China to the north , Laos to the northwest , Cambodia to the southwest , Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest , and the ___MASK94___ , Malaysia and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast . Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South ___MASK92___ in 1976 . A government in exile is a political group which claims to be a country ' s legitimate government , but is unable to exercise legal power and instead resides in a foreign country . Governments in exile usually plan to one day return to their native country and regain formal power . A government in exile differs from a rump state in the sense that a rump state controls at least part of its former territory . For example , during ___MASK39___ I , nearly all of Belgium was occupied by Germany , but Belgium and its allies held on to a small slice in the country ' s west . A government in exile , in contrast , has lost all its territory . Cambodia ( or Kampuchea ), officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia ( Preh Réachéanachâk Kâmpchéa ), is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia . It is in area , bordered by Thailand to the northwest , Laos to the northeast , ___MASK92___ to the east , and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest . The Gulf of Thailand , formerly the Gulf of Siam , is a shallow inlet in the western part of the South China and Eastern Archipelagic Seas , a marginal body of water in the western Pacific Ocean . The gulf is around 800 km ( 497 mi ) long and up to 560 km ( 348 mi ) wide , has a surface area of 320 , 000 km ( 123 , 553 sq mi ) and is surrounded on the north , west and southwest by Thailand , on the northeast by Cambodia and ___MASK92___ . The South China Sea is to the southeast .