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:

Political entities

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 Malaya Akulukjuk was an Inuk artist who drew works inspired by her life as an ''angakkuq'' (shaman) and Inuit spirituality through depictions of human-animal transformations. Akulukjuk was born in 1915 (though some sources state 1912 and 1921), ...

(born 1915?), Canadian Inuk artist *

Malaya Drew Malaya Rivera Drew (born February 6, 1987) is an American stage, film and television actress. Drew is best known for her role as Adele Channing on the cable television series ''The L Word'' (2008) and for her role as Katey Alvaro on NBC's long ...

(born 1987), American actress *

Malaya Marcelino Malaya Marcelino is a Canadians, Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2019 Manitoba general election.Bryce Hoye"Meet the rookies: Manitobans elect 13 first-time MLAs" CBC News Manitoba, September 11 ...

, Canadian politician *

Oxana Malaya Oksana Oleksandrivna Malaya (, born 4 November 1983), better known as Oxana Malaya, is a Ukrainian woman internationally known for her dog-imitating behavior. Malaya has been the subject of documentaries, interviews and tabloid headlines as a fe ...

(born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour * Malaya (born 1980), a founding member of the Chilean-Argentine group :es:_Zona_Ganjah, Zona Ganjah

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* University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia * , a Royal Navy battleship which served in both world wars * Operation Malaya, a police investigation taking place in Spain * Malaya (film), ''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), ''Malaya'' (newspaper), a newspaper in the Philippines * Malaya (Moira Dela Torre album), ''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''

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