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The Palace of Nations.The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second most important UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters.. While the Secretariat of the United Nations is headquartered in New York City, its many bodies, specialized agencies, and related organizations are headquartered in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.
The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations. Originally, the UN member states were unofficially organized into five groups as an informal means of sharing the distribution of posts for General Assembly committees. Now this grouping has taken on a much more expansive and official ...
G4 nations: Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan, four countries which support each other's bids for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. Global Governance Group (G3), a group of 30 small to medium member countries which collectively provides representation and input to the G20.
Cities of regional subordination Cities. Citizen assembly of villages Urban-type settlement. Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic Cities of republican subordination Urban-type settlements: 16 districts: Village citizen assemblies. Urban-type settlements Cities of district subordination Tashkent, an independent city 15 districts: Urban-type ...
A ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva, Switzerland).. The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
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 list includes areas that are internationally recognized, as well as some that are generally unrecognized. [ A ] [ B ] The definition of an autonomous area varies from country to country, so the native term as defined by the respective country's government is listed, and the English translation of the term is included.
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 ...