What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north." [12] Far East, in its usual sense, is comparable to terms such as the Orient (Latin for "East"), Eastern world, or simply the East, all of which may refer, broadly, to East and South-East Asia in general. More @Wikipedia
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