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'''Malaya''' can refer to:
==Malaysian and Singaporean history ==
===Malaya including Singapore===
* [[British Malaya]] (18th century-1946), a loose collection of British controlled states in the [[Malay Peninsula]], consisting 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]]); and
* in Singapore law, the [[Peninsular Malaysia|States of Malaya]] ([[Peninsular Malaysia]]) and Singapore (1946-present).<ref>s. 2, Interpretation Act (Cap. 1), Statutes of the Republic of Singapore</ref>
===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 of the Malayan Union (also excluding Singapore) which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957; and
* present-day [[Peninsular Malaysia]] (1963-present), also formally known as the States of Malaya, the states and territories formerly comprising the Federation of Malaya.
== Other uses ==
* ''[[Malaya (film)|Malaya]]'', a 1949 American film set in Japanese occupied Malaya.
* In the [[Shambhala]] tradition, the name of a "National Forest" or sacred garden, comparable to the Garden of Eden.
* In the Filipino national language, [[Filipino language|Tagalog]], a term or word meaning "free" or "freedom".
*[[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.
*[[HMS Malaya]], for the [[Queen Elizabeth Class battleship]] of the [[Royal Navy]], named after the [[Federated Malay States]].
== Notes ==
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== See also ==
* [[Malay people]]
* [[Malay language]]
* [[Malaysia]]
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