East Indies
Indonesia; Southeast Asia
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West Indies or
Indie''. The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term often used to refer to the islands of SE
Asia, especially the
Malay Archipelago. In a wider sense, the Indies is also used to describe lands of
South and
Southeast Asia, occupying all of the former
British India, the present
Indian Union,
Pakistan,
Bangladesh,
Myanmar,
Sri Lanka, the
Maldives, and also
Thailand,
Malaysia and
Indonesia, which was last called the
Dutch East Indies before independence.
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East Indies
Noun
1. a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
(synonym) Malay Archipelago, East India
(hypernym) archipelago
(part-holonym) Pacific, Pacific Ocean
(member-meronym) Malay, Malayan
(part-meronym) Sunda Islands
(class) curry
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