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Malay Peninsula. / 7.000°N 100.000°E / 7.000; 100.000. The Malay Peninsula [a] is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand, and the southernmost tip ...
Malay Peninsula. Malay Peninsula, in Southeast Asia, a long, narrow appendix of the mainland extending south for a distance of about 700 miles (1,127 km) through the Isthmus of Kra to Cape Piai, the southernmost point of the Asian continent; its maximum width is 200 miles (322 km), and it covers roughly 70,000 square miles (181,300 square km).
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List of cyclones. 2 November 1989 — Typhoon Gay affected the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia. The typhoon made landfall over Southern Thailand as a Category 3-equivalent typhoon the next day. 26 December 1996 — Tropical Depression Greg moved over the state of Sabah. Flash flooding caused many landslides in the state, killing a total of ...
Located near the equator, Malaysia's climate is categorised as equatorial, being hot and humid throughout the year. The average rainfall is 250 centimetres (98 in) a year [1] and the average temperature is 25.4 °C (77.7 °F). [2] The climates of Peninsular Malaysia and the East Malaysia differ, as the climate on the peninsula is directly ...
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Malaysia - Tropical, Monsoon, Humid: Both peninsular and insular Malaysia lie in the same tropical latitudes and are affected by similar airstreams. They have high temperatures and humidities, heavy rainfall, and a climatic year patterned around the northeast and southwest monsoons. The four seasons of the climatic year are the northeast monsoon (from November or December until March), the ...
4 & 5 November 2017 – Northern state of Penang in Malay Peninsula were hit by flash floods caused unusually heavy rains in Tropical Depression 29W, Typhoon Damrey. Flood waters in parts of the city reached 3.7 m (12 ft), submerging entire homes. 2020–2021 Malaysian floods – In late 2020 and early 2021, Terengganu, Pahang and Johor were ...
