Malaya 1948

Survey Dept. Malayan Union No. 15, 1948 Large scale separately issued map printed in colour, 910 x 635 mm, old folds, inset map of Langkawi Islands, lightly handled, very good condition.

Detailed map of the Malayan Peninsula during the short lived period of the Malayan Union (1946 – 1948), which saw the Federated Malay States, Unfederated Malay States and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca brought under a single British crown colony administration. Following protests by ethnic Malays over the granting of Malayan citizenship to foreign residents, the Malayan Union was dissolved and replaced by the Federation of Malaya on 1 February 1948. Singapore remained an independent colony from the Malayan Union and the Federation of Malaya.

‘Map covers Malaya showing part of Siam (Thailand) and Sumatra, state boundaries, islands, Straits of Malacca, (South) China Sea, railways, roads, tracks, footpaths, trigonometrical stations,  rivers, kampongs, towns, Kangar, Alor Star, George Town, Butterworth, Taiping, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Seremban, Malacca, Johore Bahru, Singapore, Kuantan, Kuala Trengganu, Koto Bharu and others’ – National Archives of Singapore