adjective
Usage: usually capitalized F&E
: of, relating to, or concerned with the countries of the Far East — used of (1) China, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, and eastern Siberia or (2) the Asian countries bordering on the Pacific ocean and including the Phillippines and Indonesia or (3) the countries of eastern and southern Asia including those of the Indian subcontinent, Tibet, the Malay peninsula and archipelago, China, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, and eastern Siberia; compare middle eastern , near eastern