• Source: United Nations geoscheme

The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification. The creators note that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories".




Usage


The UNSD geoscheme was created for statistical analysis and consists of macro-geographical regions arranged to the extent possible according to continents. Within each region, smaller geographical subregions and sometimes intermediary regions contain countries and territories. Countries and territories are also grouped non-geographically into selected economic and other sets, such as the landlocked developing countries, the least developed countries, and the Small Island Developing States.
Antarctica is the only continental region which does not comprise any geographical subregions or country-level areas.
The UNSD geoscheme does not set a standard for the entire United Nations System, and it often differs from geographical definitions used by the autonomous United Nations specialized agencies for their own organizational convenience. For instance, the UNSD includes Cyprus and Georgia in Western Asia, yet the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and UNESCO include them in Europe. This "statistical" definition also differs from United Nations Regional Groups.




= Alternative groupings

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Other alternative groupings include the World Bank regional classification, CIA World Factbook regions and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Geographic Regions.




Africa



Northern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa




Americas



Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean†
Central America†
South America
Northern America†
† The Caribbean, Central America, and Northern America together form the geographical continent of North America.




Asia



Central Asia
Eastern Asia
South-eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia




Europe



Eastern Europe (including Northern Asia)
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Western Europe




Oceania



Australia and New Zealand
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia




Maps



























See also


List of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme
List of regions of Africa
Regions of Europe
UN M49
United Nations Regional Groups
United Nations Statistics Division




References

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• Daftar wilayah di Afrika
• United Nations geoscheme
• United Nations geoscheme for Africa
• United Nations geoscheme for Asia
• List of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme
• United Nations geoscheme for Europe
• United Nations geoscheme for Oceania
• United Nations geoscheme for the Americas
• Subregion
• List of political parties by region
• Southern Europe