East Indies vs East India

East Indies and East India both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
East Indies	Yes	No	No	No
East India	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, East Indies and East India are synonyms defined as:

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

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

East Indies (noun)	East India (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