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Since there is no universal agreement on Europe's regional composition, the placement of individual countries may vary based on criteria being used. For instance, the Balkans is a distinct geographical region within Europe, but individual countries may alternatively be grouped into South-eastern Europe or Southern Europe .
The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for Europe, created by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). [1] The scheme subdivides the continent into Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe. The UNSD notes that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific ...
5 administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) 40+ communes: Saint-Barthélemy: 2 parishes: 40 quarters: Saint-Martin: Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: 2 communes Wallis and Futuna: 3 traditional kingdoms (royaumes coutumiers) 3 districts [au] 1 sui generis collectivity (collectivité sui generis): New Caledonia: 3 provinces: 30+ communes
Western Europe and parts of Central Europe generally fall into the temperate maritime climate (Cfb), the southern part is mostly a Mediterranean climate (mostly Csa, smaller area with Csb), the north-central part and east into central Russia is mostly a humid continental climate (Dfb) and the northern part of the continent is a subarctic ...
The subdivision of the country is then referred to with one number. A second or third subdivision level is referred to with another number each. Each numbering starts with 1, as 0 is used for the upper level. Where the subdivision has more than nine entities, capital letters are used to continue the numbering.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Countries in Europe. It includes countries that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Every region is governed by a regional council, headed by a governor . Elections to regional councils take place every four years. The number of council members varies according to the population in the region and consists of 45 (population under 600,000), 55 (population 600,000–900,000) or 65 people (population over 900,000). [4]
The European Union uses a hierarchical system to classify regions for statistics purposes. This is a list of NUTS regions in the European Union by GDP.The European Union uses a classification for subnational territory called Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (French: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) (commonly abbreviated as NUTS).