List of geographic regions according to the United Nations

For statistical purposes, the United Nations subdivides the world into the following geographic macro-regions ( continents ) and geographic sub-regions ( sub-continents ), each of which is assigned a code:

001 world

Map of the sub-regions according to the United Nations

• 002 Africa
  • 014 Eastern Africa
  • 017 Central Africa
  • 015 Northern Africa
  • 018 Southern Africa
  • 011 Western Africa

• 019 America
  • 419 Latin America and the Caribbean
    • 029 Caribbean
    • 013 Central America
    • 005 South America
  • 021 North America

• 142 Asia
  • 143 Central Asia
  • 030 Eastern Asia
  • 034 Southern Asia
  • 035 Southeast Asia
  • 145 Western Asia

• 150 Europe
  • 151 Eastern Europe
  • 154 Northern Europe
  • 039 Southern Europe
  • 155 Western Europe

• 009 Oceania
  • 053 Australia and New Zealand
  • 054 Melanesia
  • 057 Micronesia
  • 061 Polynesia
• 010 Antarctica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/