Originally Posted by
Ancient Observer
As someone who has spent rather a lot of time in Asia, might I have license to point out that many folk in Asia do not like their region being called "the far east". Ipswich is the "far east" . Asia is Asia.
But is literally is far east, Asia is far and east from the UK (which is the area we are talking about).
If they want to call us the far west, they can, I don't think many Europeans will cry over it.