Nama Malaysia

Malaysia bermakna Melayu Nama Malaysia sebenarnya telah digunakan sejak tahun 1800an lagi merujuk kepada peta yang dibuat oleh Alexander Keith Johnston F.R.G.S (AK Johnston) pada tahun 1845. Ianya penyata buat Semenanjung Melayu dan kepulauan Melayu. Kepulauan Melayu merujuk kepada kawasan Sumatra, Tanah Jawa, Tanah Melayu, Pulau Pinang, Singapura, Kemboja, Siam, Burma, Brunei (Borneo utara iaitu termasuk Sarawak dan Sabah), Timor dan Filipina. Kepulauan Melayu dikatakan mencecah lebih kurang 2 juta Kilometer persegi dengan lebih daripada 25,000 pulau-pulau didalamnya.

Peta yang dibuat oleh Alexander Keith Johnston F.R.G.S (AK Johnston) pada tahun 1845 diberi tajuk 'South Eastern Peninsula and Malaysia' dan dimuatkan didalam bukunya "National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography". Malaysia juga merujuk kepada bangsa Melayu yang mempunyai kuasa dominannya dikeseluruhan kepulauan tersebut. Ini berdasarkan kepada nota didalam peta tersebut; "....the group (the malay peninsula and the malay archipelago ) has been named Malaysia from the Malays who are the dominant race in the archipelago...."

Nama Malaysia adalah amat sesuai iaitu mengambarkan nama Malay (Melayu) sebagai bangsa induk dan kuasa kekerajaannya serta bangsa asia lain yang duduk bernaung bersama.

- Alexander Keith Johnston F.R.G.S (AK Johnston) interest in geography had developed early, and his first important work was the National Atlas of General Geography, which gained for him in 1843 the appointment of Geographer Royal for Scotland. Johnston was the first to bring the study of physical geography into competent notice in England. His attention had been called to the subject by Alexander von Humboldt; and after years of labour he published his magnificent Physical Atlas in 1848, followed by a second and enlarged edition in 1856. This, by means of maps with descriptive letterpress, illustrates the geology, hydrography, meteorology, botany, zoology, and ethnology of the globe.

Johnston published a Dictionary of Geography in 1850, with many later editions; The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, begun in 1855; an atlas of military geography to accompany Alison's History of Europe in 1848 seq.; and a variety of other atlases and maps for educational or scientific purposes. A book on astronomy named "School Atlas of Astronomy" (published 1856) has written by him.