UN macrogeographic regions
This article presents the classification of countries of the world by macro-geographical regions ( macro-regions ) and continents ( Africa , America , Asia , Europe , Oceania ), used for statistical purposes in the United Nations (UN) in accordance with the document “Standard codes of countries or areas for use in statistics ”developed by the UN Secretariat.
The grouping of countries by UN macro-regions is also used in the All-Russian Classifier of the World Countries , which is part of the Unified System for the Classification and Coding of Techno-Economic and Social Information (ESKK) in the Russian Federation .
Content
List of Macro Regions
- Europe
- Western Europe
- Northern Europe
- Southern Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Asia
- West Asia
- central Asia
- South asia
- North asia
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Africa
- North Africa
- West Africa
- Central africa
- East africa
- South Africa
- America
- North America
- Central America
- Caribbean
- South America
- Australia and Oceania
- Australia and New Zealand
- Melanesia
- Micronesia
- Polynesia
List of countries by macro region
See also
- Historical and Cultural Areas
- Historical area
Links
- All-Russian Classifier of the World Countries (2002) (see Appendix D of the OKSM )
- UN's grouping into continents and subregions
- UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names
- UN subregions as used by GeoHive
- Macroregions in the Open Directory Project Link Directory (dmoz)