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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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas.The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas.
Continents and major geopolitical regions (non-continents are italicized) Africa • Antarctica • Asia • Europe • North America • Oceania (includes Australia ) • South America Political divisions of the World, arranged by continent or major geopolitical region
This world map was created with an unknown SVG tool. Description World Map (political).svg English: A political map of the world in the Robinson projection, with no legend.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.