Malaya

Malaya may refer to:

• Malay Peninsula, a region in southeast Asia
• Malay Archipelago, the broader macroregion
• Malaya Mountains, place in Hindu mythology

Political entities

Malaya including Singapore

• British Malaya (18th century–1946), a loose collection of British-controlled states
• the States of Malaya (also known as Peninsular Malaysia) together with Singapore (1946–1965).

Malaya excluding Singapore

• The Malay states, locally-ruled states under British protection (divided into the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States)
• The Malayan Union (1946–1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all states in British Malaya except Singapore
• The Federation of Malaya (1948–1963), the successor to the Malayan Union (also excluding Singapore), which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957
• Present-day Peninsular Malaysia (1963–present), also formally known as the States of Malaya or West Malaysia, includes the states and territories formerly composing the Federation of Malaya

Other uses

• Malaya (film), a 1949 American film set in Japanese occupied Malaya
• Malayan (film), a 2009 Tamil film
• HMS Malaya, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship of the Royal Navy
• Operation Malaya, an ongoing police investigation taking place in Spain
• Oxana Malaya (born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour
• Malaya (newspaper), after the Tagalog word meaning "free" or "freedom"
• The name of a "National Forest" or sacred garden, comparable to the Garden of Eden, in Shambhala tradition
• The Malayan tribe of Kerala State in India
• In Russian names, малая, feminine singular nominative of the Russian adjective малый = "small"
• Swahili for a "woman of the town"
• Malaya, a genus of the mosquito

See also

• Malays (ethnic group)
• Malay language, a major language of the Austronesian family
• Malaysia, a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia
• Malayalam, a South Asian language