Malaya
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia.
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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
- States of Malaya (1963–present), usually known as Peninsular Malaysia or West Malaysia, comprising the states and territories of the former Federation of Malaya
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 Mountains, a place in Hindu mythology
- A sacred forest or garden in Shambhala tradition, comparable to the Garden of Eden
- Malaya Kuonamka, a river in Yakutia, Russia
See also
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- M'alayah, a dance of East Africa and Eastern Arabia
- Malay (disambiguation)
- Malayalam, a South Asian language
- Malays (disambiguation)
- Malaysia, a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia
- Malaysian (disambiguation)
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