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Far East in the most restricted sense, region comprising the countries of E Asia, namely China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan, and the easternmost portion of Russian Siberia (see Russian Far East ). In a more extended sense, the term includes the countries of Southeast Asia , including the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Brunei, and Indonesia. Historically, it denotes those portions of the Asian continent and archipelagoes farthest from the 19th cent. W European maritime powers.

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Far East The eastern countries of the Old World, now East Asia; in particular, China, Japan, North and South Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

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