Malay Peninsula
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The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu, Thai: คาบสมุทรมลายู) is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia.
The Malay term Tanah Melayu is still occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realized with the creation of Malaysia. There is also a Malay minority in Singapore, an island city-state with a Chinese majority that immigrated to the island during the British colonial era.
The countries located on the Malay Peninsula are:
