page_title: East Malaysia
section_title: Physical geography
hierarchical_section_title: East Malaysia / Physical geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Relief (hypsometric) map of Borneo. Red lines represent national borders between Indonesia (south), Malaysia (north), and Brunei (top north). Created with GMT from publicly released GLOBE data[1]. For locator version, see Image:Borneo Locator Topography.png. Français&#160;: Carte du relief de l'île de Borneo. Les lignes rouges représentent les frontières séparant les états se partageant l'île de Bornéo&#160;: L'Indonésie (au sud), la Malaisie (au nord de l'Indonésie) et l'état de Bruneï (au nord de la Malaisie). Image produite à l'aide de la suite logicielle GMT à partir des données publiques GLOBE. Une version locator est disponible.
context_page_description: East Malaysia, also known as Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan or Malaysian Borneo, is the part of Malaysia on the island of Borneo, the world's third largest island. It consists of the Malaysian states of Sabah, which is closer to the Philippines than to mainland Malaysia, Sarawak in the west, and the Federal Territory of Labuan. Labuan is an island in its small archipelago of the same name due north of Brunei; its closest land mass is with Sabah. It lies to the east of Peninsular Malaysia, the part of the country on the Malay Peninsula. The two are separated by the South China Sea.
  East Malaysia is less populated and has less developed settlements than West Malaysia. While West Malaysia contains the country's major cities, East Malaysia is larger and has more natural resources, particularly oil and gas reserves. In the pan-regional style, city status is reserved for only a few settlements, including Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, and Miri. Various other significant settlements are classified as towns, including many with over 100,000 residents. East Malaysia includes a significant portion of the biodiverse Borneo lowland rain forests and Borneo montane rain forests.
context_section_description: The landscape of East Malaysia is mostly lowland rain forests with areas of mountain rain forest towards the hinterland.
  The total area of East Malaysia is 198,447 km², representing approximately 60% of the total land area of Malaysia and 26.4% of the total area of Borneo, which is 50% bigger than Peninsular Malaysia at 132,156 square kilometres (51,026 sq mi), comparable with South Dakota or Great Britain.
  East Malaysia contains the five highest mountains in Malaysia, the highest being Mount Kinabalu at 4095 m, which is also the highest mountain in Borneo and the 10th highest mountain peak in Southeast Asia. It also contains the two longest rivers in Malaysia – Rajang River and Kinabatangan River.
  Banggi Island in Sabah and Bruit Island in Sarawak are the two largest islands that are located entirely within Malaysia. The largest island is Borneo, which is shared with Indonesia and Brunei. The second largest island is Sebatik Island, in Sabah, which is shared with Indonesia.
  Sarawak contains the Mulu Caves within Gunung Mulu National Park. Its Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world. The Gunung Mulu National Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in November 2000.
  Sabah's attractions include World Heritage Site Kinabalu Park (which includes Mount Kinabalu), and Sipadan Island (a diving and bio-diversity hot-spot).
caption: A topographic map of Borneo with East Malaysia located on the northern portion of the island
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