Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions and component
geographical regions
revised 20 July 2001
|
|
002 Africa a/
|
|
014 Eastern Africa
|
|
017 Middle Africa
|
|
015 Northern Africa
|
|
018 Southern Africa
|
|
011 Western Africa
|
|
|
|
019 Americas
|
|
419 Latin America and the Caribbean
|
|
029 Caribbean
|
|
013 Central America
|
|
005 South America
|
|
021 Northern America b/
|
|
|
|
142 Asia |
|
030 Eastern Asia
|
|
062 South-central Asia
|
|
035 South-eastern Asia
|
|
145 Western Asia
|
|
|
|
150 Europe |
|
151 Eastern Europe
|
|
154 Northern Europe
|
|
039 Southern Europe
|
|
155 Western Europe
|
|
|
|
009 Oceania |
|
053 Australia and New Zealand
|
|
054 Melanesia
|
|
057 Micronesia
|
|
061 Polynesia
|
|
a/ The designations employed and the presentation of
country or area
names in this list do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever
on
the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal
status
of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning
the
delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The user of any particular
dataset
should consult the dataset documentation to determine the exact coverage
of statistics for the country or area entities in the dataset. Various
datasets
may or may not include coverage of outlying and overseas areas, depending
on the type of data and source.
|