East India vs Malay Archipelago

East India and Malay Archipelago both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
East India	Yes	No	No	No
Malay Archipelago	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, East India and Malay Archipelago are synonyms defined as:

East India and Malay Archipelago: a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

Other synonyms of East India include East Indies, The Malay Archipelago.

East India (noun)	Malay Archipelago (noun)
a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia	a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia