A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.

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The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term often used to refer to the Malay Archipelago http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9274111, in contrast to the West Indies, which refers to the Caribbean. In a wider sense, the Indies is also used to describe lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and also Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, which was last called the Dutch East Indies before independence.