Indoasia

See also: Indoásia and Indoàsia

English

Etymology

Blend of India +‎ Asia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʒə
• Hyphenation: Indo‧a‧sia

Proper noun

Indoasia

1. Alternative form of Indo-Asia
   1. The subcontinent of Asia.
      • 1897, Maynard Mayo Metcalf, Collected Reprints, page 18:

        At any rate we can say that it seems likely from the present distribution of A. duodenale and N. americanus as determined in surveys recently made of selected groups that there were originally races of man parasized exclusively by A. duodenale and inhabiting the Holoarctic region, that is Europe, Asia, north of the Oriental region, and northern Africa; and that there were other races of man parasitized exclusively by N. americanus and inhabiting the Oriental region, that is the southern peninsulas of Asia and Indoasia or the Malay Archipelago ; and also the Ethiopian region, that is, Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

      • 1949, Aleš Hrdlička, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, page 265:

        The Dartians were separated in 5 major areas : Africa, Australasia, Indoasia, Sinasia, and Caucasia. Evolution from Dartian to modern race took place separately in each of the areas.

      • 2001, South Dakota Bird Notes - Volumes 53-55, page 35:

        The Philippines melds birds of Malaysia and Indoasia, southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan — 572 species in all.

   2. Geopolitical region.
      • 1930, American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Journal - Volumes 10-11, page 27:

        If the harvest of 1930-1931 is as good as that of 1929-1930 is proving to be, we can expect the market price to fall below the cost of production throughout the Philippines, for Indoasia will also carry over large stocks because of the diminished purchasing power of Chinese brought about by the fall of silver and the exchange rate.

      • 1995, Rachna Chaitanya, The New World Order, page 39:

        Aid to a developing country like India or Indoasia is based on certain geostrategic calculations.

      • 2014, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Richard Sakwa, Eurasian Integration – The View from Within, Routledge, →ISBN, page 226:

        Turkey is one of the regional actors with ambitions to influence regional developments in Indoasia, which is geographically a large substantial land mass between Indian Ocean and China.

      • 2017, The Newly Independent States of Indoasia: Handbook of Former British Republics, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 297:

        This bureaucratic security-minded elite has invariably weathered changes in government by maintaining the personal ties that continue to dominate political life in the newly independent states. Political patronage continues to thrive in Indoasia.