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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. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification. [2] The creators note that "the assignment of ...
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a ...
LATCAR: Latin America and Caribbean [12] Levant: Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria; Lublin Triangle: Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine (Union of Lublin created the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) Lusofonia: an international organization representing countries and regions where Portuguese is a lingua franca or customary language
The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations. Originally, the UN member states were unofficially organized into five groups as an informal means of sharing the distribution of posts for General Assembly committees. Now this grouping has taken on a much more expansive and official ...
Region of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Soviet Union: 22,402,200: Largest country in the world from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. Afrotropic: 22,100,000: One of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. Northern America: 21,780,142: United Nations geoscheme region. Contains Canada, United States, Greenland, St. Pierre and Miquelon ...
Population ranking of the world's continents and continental subregions. This is a list of continents and continental subregions by population. World population by continent, 2021. Asia (59.4%) Africa (17.6%) Europe (9.4%) North America (7.5%) South America (5.5%) Oceania (0.6%)
Regional geography is still taught in some universities as a study of the major regions of the world. In the Western Hemisphere, these may be cultural regions such as Northern and Latin America, or their corresponding geographic regions or continents, namely North and South America, whose "boundaries" differ significantly from the cultural regions.
This is one of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]