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Reported total area: 329,847 sq km. Population context: 34,905,275 (2025 est.). Geographic context: Southeastern Asia, peninsula bordering Thailand and northern one-third of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam.

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