Malaysia
- Alor Star - alor in Malay means "furrow", while star refers to a kind of tree (Bouea macrophylla) that bears small, sour fruit known as kundang or remia in Malay
- Cyberjaya - Malay: "cyber excellence", a reference to the city's designation as the "Silicon Valley of Malaysia"
- Ipoh - named after the ipoh tree whose poisonous sap the Orang Asli used to coat their blowpipe darts with
- Johor - from Arabic jauhar, or "precious stones"
- Kangar - named for the Malay 'kangkok', a kind of hawk (Spizaetus Limnaetu)
- Kelantan - said to be a corruption of gelam hutan, the Malay name for the Melaleuca leucadendron tree, also possibly derived from kilatan ("lightning")
- Klang - possibly from Mon-Khmer klong or Malay kilang ("warehouse")
- Kota Bharu - Malay: "new town/fort"
- Kuala Lumpur - Malay: "muddy confluence", a reference to the founding of the city at the confluence of Gombak River and Klang River
- Kuching - Malay: "cat", but probably a corruption of the Indian cochin ("port") or a reference to the mata kucing trees that used to proliferate where the city grew subsequently
- Labuan - derived from the Malay labuhan ("anchorage")
- Langkawi - Malay for "eagle island", but possibly related to Langkasuka, an ancient Hindu kingdom founded in Kedah in the 1st century CE
- Malacca - named by the founder of Malacca, Parameswara, after the Melaka tree under which he sheltered
- Negeri Sembilan - Malay: "nine states", a reference to the nine original districts (or nagari) settled by the Minangkabau
- Penang - named after the Pinang tree
- Perak - Malay: "silver", from the silvery colour of tin for which the area became famous; or possibly from the "glimmer of fish in the water"
- Putrajaya - Malay: literally: "the son's victory"; but taken to mean "princely excellence". Named after the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, possibly with reference to the planned city's status as the new administration centre for the Federal Government
- Selangor - possibly from the Malay selangau ("fly") due to the abundance of flies along the Selangor River
- Sungai Petani - literally "farmer river" in Malay, said to originate from the concentration of paddy-fields and farmers in the state
- Taiping - Chinese: "great peace"
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