Malaya

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Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:

• 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)

• Megisba malaya, a butterfly commonly called the Malayan

• Malaya Akulukjuk (born 1915?), Canadian Inuit 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

• 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, 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
• 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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• M'alayah, a dance of East Africa and Eastern Arabia
• Malay (disambiguation)
• Malabar (disambiguation), a region of India also known as Malaya and Malai
• Malayalam, a Dravidian language of Kerala, India
• Malayala Manorama, a Malayalam-language newspaper based in Kerala, India
• Malayala Rajyam, an Indian Malayalam-language newspaper
• Malays (disambiguation)
  • Malays (ethnic group)
• Malaysia, a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia
• Malaysian (disambiguation)
• Malai (disambiguation)

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