[4] Mala Vas is a clustered settlement in an open, sunny area along the Sava River.

It stands along Vienna Street (Dunajska cesta), with the old village core just to the east, below the terrace of the Sava River.

[1] New construction caused Mala Vas become contiguous with built-up parts of Ljubljana and neighboring villages by the 1970s.

[3] The original name of the settlement, Mala vas (literally, "small village"), was changed to Mala Vas na Posavju ("small village in the Sava Valley") in 1955 to distinguish the settlement from others with the same name.

[6] Mala Vas was annexed by Ježica in 1961, ending its existence as an independent settlement.