Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Malaysian National Registration Identity Card Number (abbreviated NRIC No.) is a unique series of digits issued to Malaysian citizens and permanent residents for indentification, indexing and tracking purposes. The National Registration Department of Malaysia is the sole authority in charge of issuing the NRIC numbers. The above format is the official format as printed on the official identity documents eg. MyKad. However, for database purposes (eg. sorting), the NRIC Number may have its hyphens omitted, hence.