Malaya

Not to be confused with Malaysia.

Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:

Political entities

• British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits Settlements and the British protectorates of the Malay States
• Malayan Union (1946–1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all the states and settlements in British Malaya except Singapore
• Federation of Malaya (1948–1963), the successor to the Malayan Union, which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957
• The States of Malaya (1963–present)

Science

• Megisba malaya, a butterfly commonly called the Malayan

People

• Malaya Akulukjuk (born 1915?), Canadian Inuit artist
• Malaya Drew (born 1978), American actress
• Malaya Marcelino, Canadian politician
• Oxana Malaya (born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour

Other uses

• University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• HMS Malaya, a Royal Navy battleship which served in both world wars
• Operation Malaya, a police investigation taking place in Spain
• Malaya (film), a 1949 American war film set in Japanese-occupied Malaya
• Malaya (newspaper), a newspaper in the Philippines
• Malaya (album), an album by Filipino singer, Moira Dela Torre
• Malaya Mountains, a place in Hindu mythology
• Malaya Kuonamka, a river in Yakutia, Russia
• Malaya-sundari, a character in the 11th-century Indian story collection Shringara-manjari-katha

See also

• M'alayah, a dance of East Africa and Eastern Arabia
• Malay (disambiguation)
• Malabar (disambiguation), a region of India also known as Malaya and Malai
• Malayalam, a Dravidian language of India
• Malays (disambiguation)
  • Malays (ethnic group)
• Malaysia, a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia
• Malaysian (disambiguation)
• Malai (disambiguation)