Malaya
Malaya was the colonial British term for its colonies on the Malay Peninsula. The modern countries in the area are: Malay or Bahasa Malaysia/Bahasa Melayu is the main language of the area, with English being a common second language and large minorities speaking Mandarin and other forms of Chinese or Tamil.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: former administrative territorial entity
- Description: set of states on Peninsular Malaysia and island of Singapore under British dominance from 18th to 20th centuries
- Also known as: “British Malaya” and “Malaya British”
Malaya
- Category: historical country
- Location: Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
4.55° or 4° 33′ northLongitude of center
101.98° or 101° 58′ 48″ eastWikidata ID
Q871091
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Malaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مالايا البريطانية”
- Asturian: “Malasia británica”
- Belarusian: “Брытанская Малая”
- Bulgarian: “Британска Малая”
- Catalan: “Malàisia britànica”
- Chinese: “英属马来亚”
- Chinese: “英屬馬來亞”
- Chinese: “馬來亞”
- Croatian: “Britanska Malaja”
- Czech: “Britská Malajsie”
- Czech: “Britské Malajsko”
- Danish: “Britisk Malaya”
- Dutch: “Malaya”
- Esperanto: “Brita Malajzio”
- French: “Malaisie britannique”
- German: “Britisch-Malaya”
- German: “British Malaya”
- Greek: “Βρετανική Μαλάγια”
- Hebrew: “מלאיה הבריטית”
- Indonesian: “Malaya Britania Raya”
- Indonesian: “Malaya Inggris”
- Indonesian: “Malaya”
- Italian: “Malesia britannica”
- Japanese: “イギリス領マラヤ”
- Japanese: “イギリス領マレー”
- Japanese: “英領マラヤ”
- Japanese: “英領マレー”
- Korean: “영국령 말라야”
- Lao: “ອັງກິດ ມາລາຢາ”
- Lithuanian: “Britų Malaja”
- Malay: “Malaya British”
- Malay: “Malaya”
- Malay: “Tanah Melayu British”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Britisk Malaya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malaya”
- Norwegian: “Britisk Malaya”
- Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ ਮਲਾਇਆ”
- Persian: “مالایای بریتانیا”
- Polish: “Federacja Malajska”
- Polish: “Malaje”
- Polish: “Związek Malajski”
- Portuguese: “Malásia britânica”
- Russian: “Британская Малайя”
- Slovenian: “Britanska Malaja”
- Spanish: “Emergencia malaya”
- Spanish: “Malasia britanica”
- Spanish: “Malasia británica”
- Swedish: “British Malaya”
- Swedish: “Brittiska Malaya”
- Tamil: “பிரித்தானிய மலாயா”
- Thai: “บริติชมาลายา”
- Turkish: “Britanya Malayası”
- Ukrainian: “Британська Малая”
- Urdu: “برطانوی مالایا”
- Urdu: “برطانوی ملایا”
- Venetian: “Małèzia britànega”
- Vietnamese: “Mã Lai thuộc Anh”
- Western Panjabi: “بریٹیش ملایا”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Malaya”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.