Far East

American  

noun

1. Older Use. the countries of East Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and sometimes adjacent areas.

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Far East British  

noun

1. the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan

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Far East Cultural  

1. Popular expression for the east Asian nations of China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan.

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Other Word Forms

• Far Eastern
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Far East

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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Far East

The institute itself was established under Joseph Stalin in 1934 at a time when the Soviet Union was suffering thousands of plague cases annually, particularly in the farthest-flung corners of Siberia and the Far East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Moscow's FSB security service said a Japanese national, whom it did not name, was arrested on the Far East island of Sakhalin.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The watchdog said a biological safety team had inspected the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk and found no emergency situation there.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

No, not because they’re expensive and vulnerable to cheap imports from the Far East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The same was true of Siberia, although the Map of Days had its own name for Russia’s Far East: The Great Far-Reaching Solitude.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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