Malaya

Malaya is both a name and word that has different meanings in different places.

Malaya first recorded in the Vayu Purana ( 1 BCE - 7 CE) as Malayadvipa ( 'Malaya island') refers to the Sumatra island. Malaya also mentioned in the Amoghapasa inscription ( 1300s CE) found in the estuary of Batanghari river in West Sumatra, refers to the region in Sumatra.

 Malaysia & Singapore 

In the history of Malaysia and Singapore, "Malaya" () can refer to:

 British Malaya, (18th century-1946) a loose collection of British controlled states in the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore
 The Malayan Union, (1946-1948) a post-war British colony consisting of all states in British Malaya, excluding Singapore
 The Federation of Malaya (Persekutuan Tanah Melayu) (1948-1963), the successor of the Malayan Union (also excluding Singapore) which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957
 present-day Peninsular Malaysia, the states and territories formerly comprising the Federation of Malaya (1963-present), now also known formally as the States of Malaya (Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu)

 Other uses 
 Malaya (movie), 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.
 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

Related pages
 Malay (disambiguation)