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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 ...
24 regions 1 republic 2 cities: UG: Uganda: 4 geographical regions 134 districts 1 city: UM: United States Minor Outlying Islands: 9 islands, groups of islands: US: United States of America: 50 states 1 district 6 outlying areas: UY: Uruguay: 19 departments: UZ: Uzbekistan: 1 city 12 regions 1 republic: VA: Holy See — VC: Saint Vincent and ...
4 constituent countries: 1 constituent country without devolution: England: Greater London: City of London: 25 wards: 32 London boroughs (including 1 city) areas 10,449 parishes [43] with some unparished areas: 6 metropolitan counties (covered by combined authorities) 36 metropolitan boroughs (a.k.a. metropolitan districts) 21 two-tier non ...
This is a list of lists on the cities of present-day nations, states and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized.
For a table of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America with geographical data such as area, population, and population density, see North America: countries and territories. Geologically, North America is joined with South America by the Isthmus of Panama to form the Americas.
In countries with small populations, where the entire country would be placed on the NUTS 2 or even NUTS 3 level (ex. Luxembourg, Cyprus), the regions at levels 1, 2 and 3 are identical to each other (and also to the entire country), but are coded with the appropriate length codes levels 1, 2 and 3.
The second list shows the World Bank's estimates, and the third list includes mostly 2024 estimates from the CIA World Factbook. In these lists, the sovereign states and dependent territories are classified according to the geoscheme created by the United Nations Statistics Division. [1]