Indo-Asia

English

Alternative forms

• Indoasia

Proper noun

Indo-Asia

1. A landmass on Earth, consisting of the Indian subcontinent and adjacent parts of East and Southeast Asia, particularly the tropical and subtropical regions.
   • 1914, Harvard University, General Information, page 792:

     The Exhibition Rooms open to the public are the Synoptic Room, the rooms containing the various systematic collections, those devoted to the various faunal collections (Europe, North and South America, Indo-Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans); also the rooms devoted to special collections and to the Quaternary, Tertiary, Mesozoic, and Palaeozoic fossils.

   • 1993, Southern Nurserymen's Association Research Conference:

     Based on preferred hosts and host plant origins it is probable that the natural distribution of the fern scale is tropical Indo-Asia and Indo-Australia while that of the liriope scale is coastal China, Japan and Korea.

   • 2016, Richard Kwiatkowski, The Country That Refused to Die: The Story of the People of Poland, →ISBN:

     Of all modern mankind, only in six or seven small areas would clusters of refugees remain; western Africa, southern Africa, southeastern Indo-Asia, southwestern Iran, and southeastern China.

2. A region comprising countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the Indian cultural sphere, contrasted with Chinese-influenced Sino-Asia.
   • 2014, Nick Ray, Greg Bloom, Lonely Planet Laos, →ISBN:

     The contrast between the Lao and the Vietnamese is an example of how the Annamite Chain has served as a cultural fault line dividing Indo-Asia and Sino-Asia, as well as a geographic divide.

   • 2017, Tiang Boon Hoo, Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi, →ISBN:

     China's three decades of unprecedented growth and military modernisation, coupled with US global overreach and budget burdens, signal a considerable shift in greatpower hegemony in the Indo-Asia Pacific (IAP).

   • 2017, J.E. Spelman, The Last Prophet, →ISBN:

     Indo-Asia has had two instances of bombings of train track generator centers; the tau wave guidance tracks vanished over large areas of the interior, so the trains following those tracks lost their guidance system instantly.

Synonyms

• (geopolitical region): Indian Union (historical)

Hypernyms

• Afro-Indoasia

Hyponyms

• (landmass): Asia, Europe
  • Indian Peninsula, Himalayas, Greater Middle East, Southeast Asia and Indian subcontinent itself respectively.