East Indies vs Malay Archipelago

East Indies and Malay Archipelago both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

East Indies (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