Editing Malaya

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'''Malaya''' refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently [[Peninsular Malaysia]] in Southeast Asia:
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==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 [[Peninsular Malaysia|States of Malaya]] (1963–present)

==Science==
* ''[[Megisba malaya]]'', a butterfly commonly called the Malayan

==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 [[:es:_Zona_Ganjah|Zona Ganjah]]

== 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)|''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)|''Malaya'' (newspaper)]], a newspaper in the Philippines
* [[Malaya (Moira Dela Torre album)|''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 ==
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* [[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)]]

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