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The Gulf of Paria (/ ˈ p æ r i ə / PA-ree-ə; [1] Spanish: Golfo de Paria) is a 7,800 km 2 (3,000 sq mi) shallow (180 m at its deepest) semi-enclosed inland sea located between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. It separates the two countries by as little as 15 km at its narrowest and 120 km at its widest points.
Gulf of Bothnia, part of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland; Gulf of Burgas, Black Sea, Bulgaria; Gulf of Cádiz, part of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern border of Spain and Portugal; Gulf of Corinth, of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece; Gulf of Corryvreckan, off the west coast of mainland Scotland
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 disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
Some general data on the countries listed in M49 for the continental region, Asia (142), and one non-official region, "Northern Asia," are presented below. M49 is a device for collecting useful statistics for the UNSD and is a suggested reference guide offered as a global standard for all agencies and institutions within the various UN ...
Since this region as a whole falls under the transcontinental country of Russia, for statistical convenience, Russia is assigned under Eastern Europe by the UNSD, including both European Russia and Asian Russia under a single subregion. Hence there is no geopolitical entity that is currently grouped under Northern Asia.
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 ]
This is a list of articles giving brief summaries of each country in Asia. The transcontinental countries situated in both Asia and Europe are also shown. Outline of Abkhazia [ 1 ]
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