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Overseas Malays refer to individuals with Malay race ancestry (inc. Javanese, Malays (ethnic group), Minangkabau, Buginese people) living outside Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, South Thailand and neighbouring Malay home areas.

Statistics

Asia

Malays: 15,000

Burmese Malays: 26,000

Malays: 2,000,000

Sri Lankan Malays are also known as Ja-minissu: 50,000

Malays: 12,000

Africa

There are 253,000 Cape Malays living in South Africa. These are a population of multi-racial ancestry.

Oceania

Australia's ethnic Malay population number around 10,000 people.

Malays: 2,200

North America

Malays: 16,920[1]

There are over 95,000 Malays living in the United States.

Europe

The Malay population in the United Kingdom is 49,000.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Canada [Country] and Canada [Country]". 8 February 2017.

External links

Overseas Malays
Overseas Asians and Asian diasporas
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