Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
Political entities
- British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits Settlements and the British protectorates of the Malay States. Singapore was part of British Malaya until 1946 when it was established as Colony of Singapore.
- 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)
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 (album), an album by Filipino singer, Moira Dela Torre
- Malaya Mountains, a place in Hindu mythology
- Malaya Kuonamka, a river in Yakutia, Russia
See also
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Malaya.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Malaya.
- M'alayah, a dance of East Africa and Eastern Arabia
- Malay (disambiguation)
- Malayalam, a Dravidian language of India
- Malays (disambiguation)
- Malaysia, a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia
- Malaysian (disambiguation)
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