Far East

English

Far East

Proper noun

(dated) East Asia (Korea, Japan, China, the Russian Far East, etc.), and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole.
Clipping of Russian Far East, a region in Russia.

Usage notes

The term "Far East" is often deprecated as archaic, Eurocentric, offensive, and sometimes even racist.

Derived terms

Far Eastern

Related terms

Translations

East and Southeast Asia

Albanian: Lindja e Largët
Arabic: اَلشَّرْق اَلْأُقْصَى‎ f (aš-šarq al-ʾuqṣā)
Armenian: Հեռավոր Արեւելք (Heṙavor Arewelkʿ)
Belarusian: Далёкі Усхо́д m (Daljóki Usxód)
Bulgarian: Дале́чен И́зток m (Daléčen Íztok)
Burmese: အရှေ့ဖျား ဒေသ (a.hre.hpya: desa.)
Catalan: Orient Llunyà m, Extrem Orient m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 遠東 (zh), 远东 (zh) (Yuǎndōng), 極東 (zh), 极东 (zh) (Jídōng)
Crimean Tatar: Uzaq Şarq
Czech: Dálný východ m
Esperanto: Ekstrema Oriento, Fora Oriento
Estonian: Kaug-Ida
Faroese: Fjareystur n
Finnish: Kaukoitä (fi)
French: Extrême-Orient (fr) m
Georgian: შორეული აღმოსავლეთი (šoreuli aɣmosavleti)
German: Ferner Osten m
Greek: Άπω Ανατολή (el) f (Ápo Anatolí)
Hebrew: המזרח הרחוק‎
Hindi: सुदूर पूर्व (sudūr pūrv)
Hungarian: Távol-Kelet (hu)
Indonesian: Timur Jauh (id)
Italian: Estremo Oriente (it) m
Japanese: 極東 (きょくとう, Kyokutō)
Kalmyk: Хол Дорд үзг (Xol Dord üzg)

Khmer: ចុងបូព៌ា (chong boopie)
Korean: 극동 (ko) (Geukdong) (極東 (ko))
Lao: ຕາເວັນອອກໄກ (tā wen ’ǭk kai)
Macedonian: Далечен Исток m (Dalečen Istok)
Malay: Timur Jauh
Mongolian: Алс Дорнод (Als Dornod)
Norwegian: Det fjerne østen
Nynorsk: Det fjerne Austen
Persian: خاور دور‎ (xâvar-e dur)
Polish: Daleki Wschód (pl) m
Portuguese: Extremo Oriente (pt) m
Romanian: Extremul Orient n, Orientul Îndepărtat n
Russian: Да́льний Восто́к (ru) m (Dálʹnij Vostók)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Далеки Исток m

Roman: Daleki Istok m
Slovak: Ďaleký východ m
Slovene: Daljni vzhod m
Spanish: Extremo Oriente (es) m
Swedish: Fjärran östern
Tagalog: Malayong Silangan, (poetic) Silanganan
Thai: ตะวันออกไกล (dtàwan òk)
Turkish: Uzak Doğu (tr)
Ukrainian: Дале́кий Схід m (Dalékyj Sxid)
Vietnamese: Viễn Đông (遠東)

region in Russia — see Russian Far East

See also

Levant

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