Malaya or Malayan may refer to:

Political entities

On 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)

Science

  • Malaya (fly), a genus of mosquitoes that includes Malaya genurostris
  • Megisba malaya, a butterfly commonly called the Malayan

Organisations

  • Malayan Insurance, a Philippine life insurance company
  • Malayan Airways Limited, a defunct regional airline
  • Malaysia Airlines, its legal successor
  • Maybank, a Malaysian universal bank officially known as Malayan Banking

People

  • Malaya Akulukjuk (born 1915?), Canadian Inuk 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
  • Malaya (born 1980), a founding member of the Chilean-Argentine group Zona Ganjah

Other uses

  • University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • , 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

See also

  • 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)