dutch east indies

Noun dutch east indies has 1 sense

• dutch east indies(n = noun.location) indonesia, republic of indonesia - 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;
is a member of opec, organization of petroleum-exporting countries, asean, association of southeast asian nations
is a kind of country, land, state
is a part of southeast asia, austronesia
has parts: java, bali, timor, sumatra, celebes, sulawesi, moluccas, spice islands, indonesian borneo, kalimantan, krakatao, krakatau, krakatoa