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Malaya can refer to:

Geographic/former political entities

• The Malay Peninsula
• Malay Archipelago, the broader macroregion.

Malaya including Singapore

• British Malaya (18th century-1946), a loose collection of British-controlled states
• The Malay states, locally-ruled states under British protection (divided into the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States).

• In Singapore law, Malaya means the States of Malaya (also known as Peninsular Malaysia) together with Singapore (1946-present).^[1]

Malaya excluding Singapore

• The Malayan Union (1946-1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all states in British Malaya except Singapore.
• The Federation of Malaya (1948-1963), the successor to 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 or West Malaysia, includes the states and territories formerly composing the Federation of Malaya.

Other uses

• Malaya, a 1949 American film set in Japanese occupied Malaya.
• HMS Malaya, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship of the Royal Navy
• Oxana Malaya (born 1983), a feral child who lived most of her life in the company of dogs, picking a number of their habits.
• Malaya (Philippine newspaper), after the Tagalog word meaning "free" or "freedom".
• The name of a "National Forest" or sacred garden, comparable to the Garden of Eden, in Shambhala tradition.
• The Malayan tribe of Kerala State in India
• In Russian names, малая, feminine singular nominative of the Russian adjective малый = "small"

Notes

See also

• Malays (ethnic group)
• Malay language
• Malaysia

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Proper noun

Malaya

1. the Malay Peninsula

Derived terms

• British Malaya
• Federation of Malaya
• Malayan
• States of Malaya

Translations

From Wikispecies

Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Culicomorpha
Superfamilia: Culicoidea
Familia: Culicidae
Subfamilia: Culicinae
Tribus: Sabethini
Genus: Malaya
Species: M. farquharsoni - M. fraseri - M. genurostris - M. incomptas - M. jacobsoni - M. leei - M. marceli - M. moucheti - M. solomonis - M. splendens - M. taeniarostris - M. trichorostris

Name

Malaya Leicester, 1908

Type species: Malaya genurostris Leicester, 1908

Vernacular names

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