Malichka

Malichka (Slovene: Malička) (Chinese: 馬列基亞, Jyutping: Maa5 lit6 gei1 aa3, Yale: Máh liht gēi a, Pinyin: Mǎ liè jī yà), officially known as the Kingdom of Malichka (Slovene: Kraljevina Malički) (Chinese: 馬列基亞王國, Jyutping: Maa5 lit6 gei1 aa3 wong4 gwok3, Yale: Máh liht gēi a wòhng gwok, Pinyin: Mǎ liè jī yà wáng guó), is a country located in Eastern Asia, on the northeastern coast of China. It is bordered by China to the west, Russia to the north, North Korea to the northeast, and South Korea to the southwest. Malichka covers only 7,180 sqkm and has a population of 2.084 million. Its capital and the largest city is Dvoreki.

The official languages are Slovene and Cantonese (although other dialects of Chinese like Mandarin are spoken). Regional languages include Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Hungarian, Romanian and Italian.

The country is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations.

Etymology
The name "Malichka" was either derived from the Indian word for "fish", representing the abundance of fish in the area, or the word "baby girl", a nod to the Malichkan founding legend in which the folk deity Babushka Marija gave birth to a baby girl whom she named "Malichka", meaning "baby girl".

Early European history (1755-1798)
The earliest recorded European visitor was a Croat by the name of Antun Stamenov, an explorer who arrived in 1755. Croatian merchants set up a no-name trading post in the are.

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