EAST MALAYSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East Malaysia mean? 

• EAST MALAYSIA (noun)
  The noun EAST MALAYSIA has 1 sense:

1. the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST MALAYSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "East Malaysia"):

North Borneo; Sabah (one of the 13 states that constitute the Federation of Malaysia; located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo)

Sarawak (the largest state in Malaysia; located on the northwest of the island of Borneo)

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

Borneo; Kalimantan (3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago)

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