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State anthems of Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ125167069 ↗
Source-derived summary

Malaysia is a federation made up of thirteen states and three federal territories. The states have adopted their own distinct state anthems and a single anthem is shared by the federal territories.

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This entry incorporates text from “State anthems of Malaysia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.