Malaya

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
 * 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 1987), 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
 * Malaya-sundari, a character in the 11th-century Indian story collection Shringara-manjari-katha