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UKDutch East Indies
/dˈʌtʃ ˈiːst ˈɪndiz/
/dˈʌtʃ ˈiːst ˈɪndiz/Dutch East Indies
[NOUN]1
a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
Examples
1. In the Dutch East Indies around 1.5 million people died.
2. And the Dutch East Indies became Indonesia.
3. Weygers was born in 1901, in the Dutch East Indies.
4. The Netherlands bought a bunch of them for the Dutch East Indies.
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