Malaya

Malaya can refer to:

Geographic/former political entities

• The Malay Peninsula
• Malay Archipelago, the broader macroregion.

Malaya including Singapore

• British Malaya (18th century-1946), a loose collection of British-controlled states
• The Malay states, locally-ruled states under British protection (divided into the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States).

• In Singapore law, Malaya means the States of Malaya (also known as Peninsular Malaysia) together with Singapore (1946-present).^[1]

Malaya excluding Singapore

• 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), a feral child who lived most of her life in the company of dogs, picking a number of their habits.
• Malaya (Philippine 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"
• Kiswahili for a "woman of the town".

Notes

1. ^ s. 2, Interpretation Act (Cap. 1), Statutes of the Republic of Singapore

See also

• Malays (ethnic group)
• Malay language
• Malaysia

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