Overseas Malays
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Overseas Malays refer to Muslim of Malay ancestry living outside Malaysia, Indonesia, South Thailand and neighbouring ethnic Malay home areas. The Cape Malays in South Africa and Cocos Malays in Australia are some of the well-known overseas Malay communities.
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[edit] Statistics
There are no official statistics of oversea Malay, here we assume the Malay are Muslim. However the number of population of oversea Malay might added some keling decent. Some figure of the population here is just a guess.
[edit] Asia
Homeland of early Malays (see Prehistoric Malaysia)
Malays: 15,000
- Myanmar (Burma)
Malays: 26,000
Malays: 2,000,000
Malays in Sri Lanka also known as Ja-minissu: 50,000
Malays: 12,000
[edit] Africa
There are 253,000 Cape Malays living in South Africa.
[edit] Oceania
Australia's ethnic Malay population number around 10,000 people.
Malays: 2,200
[edit] North America
Malays: 2,600
There are 9,000 Malays living in the United States.
[edit] Europe
The Malay population in the United Kingdom is 49,000 The number might added Muslim from keling decent.
[edit] See also
- Malays (ethnic group)
- Cape Malays
- Cocos Malays
- Malay Speaking Circle, a Malay student society in Liverpool,UK
- Malays in Singapore
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