Exclusive economic zone of Malaysia

The total land area, including inland bodies of water, of Malaysia is 330,803 km2 (127,724 sq mi).

In the latter half of the 1970s, Malaysia and the Philippines began referring to the Spratly Islands as included in their own territory.

Other than the South China Sea, Malaysia has maritime disputes with Indonesia in the Ambalat Block located at the north-western extremity of the Celebes Sea where Indonesia claims an EEZ all the way to Malaysian territorial waters off the coast of Pulau Sipadan that almost triggered a naval standoff in May 2009 There are recorded illegal fishing activities by Filipino and Vietnamese fishing boats in Malaysia's EEZ.

[4] On 16 August 2020, a Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) vessel had reportedly shot dead a Vietnamese fisherman and also captured the fishing vessel on which the fishermen used to conduct illegal fishing within Malaysia's rightful EEZ.

On 5 April 2016, Indonesian authorities destroyed 23 illegal Vietnamese and Malaysian fishing boats that were trespassing Indonesia's EEZ.