Far East
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The Far East is a term often used by people in the Western world to refer to the countries of East Asia. It is a Eurocentric term that nevertheless retains strong popular usage. "Far East" came because from Europe the Eastern Asia is the "farthest" of the two "easts" (the others being Near East and Middle East) literally near the Pacific Ocean.
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See also
- Adoption of Chinese literary culture
- East Asia
- East Asian cultural sphere
- Far Eastern Economic Review
- Four Asian Tigers
- Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Indosphere
- Russian Far East
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Spanish East Indies
- Y-DNA haplogroups by populations of East and Southeast Asia
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