🇲🇾 Malaysia 16 administrative divisions
16 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 1,723 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- MY · MYS · 458
- Capital
- Kuala Lumpur
- Continent
- Asia
- Currency
- MYR — Malaysian ringgit
- Calling code
- +60
- Internet domain
- .my
- Divisions
- 16
- Cities and towns
- 1,723
Divisions
The 16 divisions of Malaysia
16 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarawak | MY-13 | 347 | 2,453,700 |
| Sabah | MY-12 | 220 | 3,418,785 |
| Johor | MY-01 | 207 | 3,348,283 |
| Selangor | MY-10 | 184 | 5,411,324 |
| Perak | MY-08 | 135 | 2,258,428 |
| Kedah | MY-02 | 111 | 2,131,400 |
| Pahang | MY-06 | 105 | 1,443,365 |
| Penang | MY-07 | 85 | 1,740,400 |
| Negeri Sembilan | MY-05 | 76 | 997,071 |
| Terengganu | MY-11 | 65 | 1,015,776 |
| Kelantan | MY-03 | 56 | 1,792,500 |
| Malacca | MY-04 | 55 | 998,400 |
| Kuala Lumpur | MY-14 | 31 | 9,000,280 |
| Perlis | MY-09 | 25 | 251,500 |
| Labuan | MY-15 | 4 | 95,100 |
| Putrajaya | MY-16 | 1 | 109,202 |
A further 16 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Malaysia
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/MY.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/MY/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.