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Far_East

Far East

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Far East

Proper noun

Far East (uncountable)

  1. (dated) East Asia (Korea, Japan, China, the Russian Far East, etc.) and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole.
  2. Short for Russian Far East, a region in Russia

Usage notes

  • The term "Far East" is often deprecated as archaic, Eurocentric, offensive, and sometimes even racist.

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