Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies noun - 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.
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Synonyms for Dutch East Indies
Indonesia and Dutch East Indies are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Indonesia" instead a noun phrase "Dutch East Indies".
Indonesia
Indonesia noun - 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.
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Synonyms for Indonesia
Dutch East Indies and Indonesia are semantically related. You can use "Dutch East Indies" instead a noun "Indonesia".
Nearby Word: Indonesian
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The obscurity in most of the West is partly because, until after World War II, the area was known as the East Indies (to be precise, Indonesia was the Dutch East Indies, Malaysia the British East Indies, the Philippines the Spanish East Indies, etc.).
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With Holland having fallen to the Germans and Britain preoccupied elsewhere, the Imperial Navy again proposes, for the umpteenth time, their plan to strike south to seize the oil supplies and rich natural resources of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and British Malaya.
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Indonesia and Dutch East Indies. (2017). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dutch_east_indies/indonesia
Dutch East Indies & Indonesia. N.p., 2017. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dutch_east_indies/indonesia>.
Indonesia or Dutch East Indies. 2017. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dutch_east_indies/indonesia.