Indo-Asia

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.
   • 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...1914, Harvard University, General Information, page 792
   • 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.1993, Southern Nurserymen's Association Research Conference
2. A region comprising countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the Indian cultural sphere, contrasted with Chinese-influenced Sino-Asia.
   • 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.2014, Nick Ray, Greg Bloom, Lonely Planet Laos, →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, Tiang Boon Hoo, Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   Indian Union