Indies
The Indies is a word used for places in South and Southeast Asia, including Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and also Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines, East Timor, Malaysia and Indonesia. Sometimes this area has also been called as the East Indies, in contrast to the West Indies.
Indies Media
A 1606 map of the East Indies
An 1801 map of the East Indies
East Indies* Indies (Indian subcontinent and Myanmar)* Western New Guinea* West Indies (present-day; historically included the Americas entirely)* Countries sometimes included in West Indies
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