SOUTHEAST ASIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Southeast Asia mean? 

• SOUTHEAST ASIA (noun)
  The noun SOUTHEAST ASIA has 1 sense:

1. a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore

  Familiarity information: SOUTHEAST ASIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHEAST ASIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Southeast Asia"):

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)

East Timor (a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation)

Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)

Philippines; Republic of the Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)

Republic of Singapore; Singapore (a country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965)

Holonyms ("Southeast Asia" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

 Context examples 

Morinda citrifolia is native to Southeast Asia but has been extensively spread by man throughout India and into the Pacific islands as far as the French Polynesian Islands.

(Morinda citrifolia, NCI Thesaurus)

The first molecularly confirmed cases of malaria transmission from monkeys to humans were reported in early 2000s, in Southeast Asia.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

Hepatocellular carcinoma is relatively rare in the United States but very common in all African countries south of the Sahara and in Southeast Asia.

(Hepatocellular carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Camellia sinensis is native to mainland South and Southeast Asia, but is today cultivated across the world, in tropical and subtropical regions.

(Camellia sinensis, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with betel quid chewing, a habit practiced in Southeast Asia and India.

(Oral Cavity Submucous Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Rare species tend to cluster in a handful of hotspots, such as the Northern Andes in South America, Costa Rica, South Africa, Madagascar and Southeast Asia.

(Nearly 40% of plant species are very rare, and vulnerable to climate change, National Science Foundation)

That includes roughly 600 million people in Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Laos and several other nations, mainly in Southeast Asia, the report said.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, and who was either born in the United States or who was naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

(Asian American, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

(Asian, NCI Thesaurus)