Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya and also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the list of isla ...

in Southeast Asia:

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British Malaya The term "British Malaya" (; ) loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British Empire, British hegemony or control between the late 18th and the mid-20th century. Unlike the ...

(1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits Settlements and the British protectorates of the Malay States *

Malayan Union The Malayan Union (; Jawi: كساتوان مالايا) was a union of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca. It was the successor to British Malaya and was conceived to unify the Malay Peninsula under a single g ...

(1946–1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all the states and settlements in British Malaya except Singapore *

Federation of Malaya Malaya, officially the Federation of Malaya, was a country in Southeast Asia from 1948 to 1963. It succeeded the Malayan Union and, before that, British Malaya. It comprised eleven states – nine Malay states and two of the Straits Settleme ...

(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 Inuk artist * Malaya Drew (born 1987), American actress * Malaya Marcelino, Canadian politician * Oxana Malaya (born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour * Malaya (born 1980), a founding member of the Chilean-Argentine group Zona Ganjah

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University of Malaya The Universiti Malaya (lit 'University of Malaya'; abbreviated UM) is a public university, public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the oldest Malaysian institution of higher education, and was the only university in ...

, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia * , 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'', a 1961 documentary film produced by Malayan Film Unit (later Filem Negara Malaysia) * ''Malaya'' (newspaper), a newspaper in the Philippines * ''Malaya'' (album), an album by Filipino singer,

Moira Dela Torre Moira Rachelle Bustamante Dela Torre (born November 4, 1993) is a Filipino singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Olongapo, Philippines, she began as a voice artist for corporate jingles and theme songs. In 2013, she competed in ''The Voice ...

Malaya Mountains The Malaya Mountains were a range of mountains that were mentioned in the Hindu sacred texts like ''Matsya Purana'', the '' Kurma Purana'', the ''Vishnu Purana'', and the epics of the ''Ramayana'' and the ''Mahabharata'', which is present day Kera ...

, a place in Hindu mythology *

Malaya Kuonamka The Malaya Kuonamka (; , ''Kıra Kuonamka'') is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a right tributary of the Anabar (river), Anabar with a length of . Its drainage basin area is . The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, in th ...

, a river in Yakutia, Russia * Malaya-sundari, a character in the 11th-century Indian story collection ''

Shringara-manjari-katha ''Shringara-manjari-katha'' (IAST: ''Śṛṅgāra-mañjarī-kathā'', "Stories for Shringara-manjari") is an 11th-century Sanskrit-language storybook from India. Attributed to king Bhoja, it has been partially recovered from a fragmentary manus ...

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