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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]
A few municipalities are further divided into boroughs, some incompletely. 1 autonomous city, Mexico City (Ciudad de México) 16 boroughs (demarcaciones territoriales) Federated States of Micronesia: Federal 4 states: 70+ municipalities: Moldova: Regional 32 districts or raions (Romanian: raioane) 3 municipalities : Chișinău, Bălți, and Tighina
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 ...
Country in Asia prior to 1948; now divided into North Korea and South Korea. Utah: 219,887: State of the United States. Kingdom of Hungary: 218,915: A European Kingdom lasting from 1000–1804. Measured at its apex in 1450. Red Sea: 218,887: State of Sudan. Victoria Island: 217,291: Second-largest island in the Arctic Archipelago. Idaho: 216,446
They are divided into the largest of land regions, known as continents and the largest of water regions known as oceans. There are also significant regions that do not belong to either classification, such as archipelago regions that are littoral regions, or earthquake regions that are defined in geology .
Today, the most commonly used climate map is the Köppen climate classification, developed by Russian climatologist of German descent and amateur botanist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940), which divides the world into five major climate regions, based on average annual precipitation, average monthly precipitation, and average monthly temperature.
A subregion is a part of a larger geographical region or continent. Cardinal directions are commonly used to define subregions. There are many criteria for creating systems of subregions; this article is focusing on the United Nations geoscheme , which is a changing, constantly updated, UN tool based on specific political geography and ...
Administrative divisions [1] (also administrative units, [2] [3] [4] administrative regions, [5] subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided.