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Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions and component geographical regions

revised 20 July 2001

Geographical region and composition overview

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.


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