I was talking to a guy from Malaysia on the internet last week. I was asking him how so many people could live in such a small place. He then told me to get a globe and showed me how big the country really is. It’s length stretches across the same distance as the USA. Those equator countries can be bigger than they seem
Malaysia has a rainforest that is 130 million years old. That rain forest was sitting there in that spot when the land mass that is today India went streaming by and formed the Himilayas 55 million years ago.
BTW, the 2nd oldest (living) human genes ever found is from a Negritos tribe there in Malaysia.