Malaya Explained
Malaya should not 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
People
Other uses
- 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), 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
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