# Malaya

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Not to be confused with [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia).

**Malaya** or **Malayan** may refer to:

## Political entities

On [Peninsular Malaysia](/source/Peninsular_Malaysia) in Southeast Asia:

- [British Malaya](/source/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](/source/Malayan_Union) (1946–1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all the states and settlements in British Malaya except Singapore
- [Federation of Malaya](/source/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](/source/Peninsular_Malaysia) (1963–present)

## Science

- [*Malaya* (fly)](/source/Malaya_(fly)), a genus of mosquitoes that includes *[Malaya genurostris](/source/Malaya_genurostris)*
- *[Megisba malaya](/source/Megisba_malaya)*, a butterfly commonly called the Malayan

## Organisations

- [Malayan Insurance](/source/Malayan_Insurance), a Philippine life insurance company
- [Malayan Airways Limited](/source/Malayan_Airways_Limited), a defunct regional airline - [Malaysia Airlines](/source/Malaysia_Airlines), its legal successor
- [Maybank](/source/Maybank), a Malaysian universal bank officially known as Malayan Banking

## People

- [Malaya Akulukjuk](/source/Malaya_Akulukjuk) (born 1915?), Canadian Inuk artist
- [Malaya Drew](/source/Malaya_Drew) (born 1987), American actress
- [Malaya Marcelino](/source/Malaya_Marcelino), Canadian politician
- [Oxana Malaya](/source/Oxana_Malaya) (born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour
- Malaya (born 1980), a founding member of the Chilean-Argentine group [Zona Ganjah](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_Ganjah)

## Other uses

- [University of Malaya](/source/University_of_Malaya), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- [HMS *Malaya*](/source/HMS_Malaya), a Royal Navy battleship which served in both world wars
- [Operation Malaya](/source/Operation_Malaya), a police investigation taking place in Spain
- [*Malaya* (film)](/source/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](/source/Filem_Negara_Malaysia))
- [*Malaya* (newspaper)](/source/Malaya_(newspaper)), a newspaper in the Philippines
- [*Malaya* (album)](/source/Malaya_(Moira_Dela_Torre_album)), an album by Filipino singer, [Moira Dela Torre](/source/Moira_Dela_Torre)
- [Malaya Mountains](/source/Malaya_Mountains), a place in Hindu mythology
- [Malaya Kuonamka](/source/Malaya_Kuonamka), a river in Yakutia, Russia
- Malaya-sundari, a character in the 11th-century Indian story collection *[Shringara-manjari-katha](/source/Shringara-manjari-katha)*

## See also

- [M'alayah](/source/M'alayah), a dance of East Africa and Eastern Arabia
- [Malay (disambiguation)](/source/Malay_(disambiguation))
- [Malabar (disambiguation)](/source/Malabar_(disambiguation)), a region of India also known as Malaya and Malai
- [Malayalam](/source/Malayalam), a Dravidian language of Kerala, India
- *[Malayala Manorama](/source/Malayala_Manorama)*, a Malayalam-language newspaper based in Kerala, India
- *[Malayala Rajyam](/source/Malayala_Rajyam)*, an Indian Malayalam-language newspaper
- [Malays (disambiguation)](/source/Malays_(disambiguation)) - [Malays (ethnic group)](/source/Malays_(ethnic_group))
- [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia), a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia
- [Malaysian (disambiguation)](/source/Malaysian_(disambiguation))
- [Malai (disambiguation)](/source/Malai_(disambiguation))

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