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Malaya

'''Malaya''' can refer to:

Geographic/former political entities

Malaya including Singapore

British Malaya (18th century-1946), a loose collection of British controlled states in the Malay Peninsula, consisted of the Crown colony of the Straits Settlements (which included Singapore) and the protected states known as the Malay states (divided into the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States). In Singapore law, Malaya means the Peninsular Malaysia|States of Malaya (also known as Peninsular Malaysia) together with Singapore (1946-present).s. 2, Interpretation Act (Cap. 1), Statutes of the Republic of Singapore

Malaya Excluding Singapore

The Malayan Union (1946-1948) was a post-war British colony consisting of all states in British Malaya except Singapore. The Federation of Malaya (1948-1963) was the successor of the Malayan Union (also excluding Singapore), which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957. Present-day Peninsular Malaysia (1963-present), also formally known as the States of Malaya, includes the states and territories formerly composing the Federation of Malaya.

Other uses

- ''Malaya (film)|Malaya'', a 1949 American film set in Japanese occupied Malaya.
- HMS Malaya (1915)|HMS ''Malaya'', a Queen Elizabeth class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after the Federated Malay States.
- Oxana Malaya (born 1983), a feral child that lived most of her life in the company of dogs, picking a number of their habits.
- Malay Archipelago, for the macroregion.
- A Filipino language|Tagalog term or word meaning "free" or "freedom" in the Filipino national language.
- The name of a "National Forest" or sacred garden, comparable to the Garden of Eden, in Shambhala tradition.

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