Malaya

Malaya may refer to:

Political entities

• British Malaya (18th century – 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

See also

• Malaysian (disambiguation)
• Malay (disambiguation)
• Malays (disambiguation)
• Malays (ethnic group)
• Malaysia, a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia
• Malayalam, a South Asian language
• Malay language, a major language of the Austronesian family
• Malay Peninsula
• Malay Archipelago
• Kampong Malayan, village in Belait District, Brunei