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A subregion is a conceptual unit which derives from a larger region
Region

Region is a geographical term that is used in various ways among the different branches of geography. In general, a region is a medium-scale area of land or water, smaller than the whole areas of interest , and larger than a specific site A region may be seen as a collection of smaller units or as one part of a larger whole ....
 or continent
Continent

A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents ? they are : Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia ....
 and is usually based on location. Cardinal directions, such as south or southern, are commonly used to define a subregion.

Main article: United Nations geoscheme


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United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
 (UN) is in charge of the collection, processing, and dissemination of statistical information for the UN.






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A subregion is a conceptual unit which derives from a larger region
Region

Region is a geographical term that is used in various ways among the different branches of geography. In general, a region is a medium-scale area of land or water, smaller than the whole areas of interest , and larger than a specific site A region may be seen as a collection of smaller units or as one part of a larger whole ....
 or continent
Continent

A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents ? they are : Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia ....
 and is usually based on location. Cardinal directions, such as south or southern, are commonly used to define a subregion.

United Nations subregions

Main article: United Nations geoscheme


United Nations Geographical Subregions
The Statistics Division of the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
 (UN) is in charge of the collection, processing, and dissemination of statistical information for the UN. In 1999, it developed a system of macro-geographical (continental) regions, subregions, and other selected economic groups to report advances towards achieving numerous millennial development goals
Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that 192 United Nations United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015....
 worldwide. This geoscheme was devised for statistical purposes and is used for carrying out statistical analysis. The division's first publication was the book World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics in 2000.

This scheme is in use by several bodies within the UN; other schemes are also used. According to the UN, these geographical divisions do not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliations of countries
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
 or territories
Country subdivision

Country subdivision refers to the division of a country's territory for the sake of its local government, description or other such purpose. The resulting units of division are known generically as "country subdivisions"....
 by the UN.

Subregions by continent

The following is a non-exhaustive list of subregions, arranged alphabetically by region (i.e., by continent); in the UN geoscheme, higher-level, macro-geographical regions are arranged to the extent possible according to continents.

Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 

  • by UN subregion:
    • Northern Africa
    • Western Africa
      West Africa

      West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
    • Middle Africa
      Central Africa

      Central Africa is a core region of the African continent often considered to include Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....
    • Eastern Africa
      East Africa

      East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
    • Southern Africa
      Southern Africa

      Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories....
  • by geography:
    • North Africa
      North Africa

      North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven countries or territories:...
      • Maghreb
        Maghreb

        The Maghreb , also rendered Maghrib , meaning "place of sunset" or "western" in Arabic, is a region in North Africa. The term is generally applied to all of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, but in older Arabic usage pertained only to the area of the three countries between the high ranges of the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea....


      • Sahel
        Sahel

        File:Sahel Map-Africa rough.pngFile:AT0713 map.pngThe Sahel or Sahel Belt is a semi-arid tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in Africa, which forms the transition between the Sahara to the north and the slightly less arid savanna belt to the south, known as the Sudan ....
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
      Sub-Saharan Africa

      Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographical term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara, or those African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara....
      • West Africa
        West Africa

        West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
      • East Africa
        East Africa

        East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
      • Horn of Africa
        Horn of Africa

        The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea, and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden....
      • Central Africa
        Central Africa

        Central Africa is a core region of the African continent often considered to include Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....
      • Congo
        Democratic Republic of the Congo

        The Democratic Republic of the Congo , is a country in central Africa with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest list of African countries in order of geographical area....
      • Southern Africa
        Southern Africa

        Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories....
      • Sudan (region)
        Sudan (region)

        The Sudan, from the Arabic language bil?d as-s?d?n or "land of the Black people" , is a geographic region stretching from West to Eastern Africa....
  • by geology:
      • Kaapvaal craton
        Kaapvaal craton

        The Kaapvaal craton , along with the Pilbara craton of Western Australia, are the only remaining areas of pristine 3.6-2.5 Ga crust on Earth. Similarities of rock records from both these cratons, especially of the overlying late Archean sequences, suggest that they were once part of the Vaalbara supercontinent ....
      • Zimbabwe craton
        Zimbabwe craton

        The Zimbabwe craton is an example of Early Archaean lithology dating back to 3.5 Gigaannum Ga. in the southern Africa nation of Zimbabwe. Late Archean metamorphism joined the Southern Marginal zone of the Kaapvaal craton to the Northern Marginal Zone of the Zimbabwe craton ca....


America
Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....
 

  • see also: Americas (terminology)
    Americas (terminology)

    The Americas, also known as America , are the lands of the western hemisphere, composed of numerous entities and regions variably defined by geography, politics, and culture....


North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 
  • by UN subregion:
    • Northern America
      Northern America

      Northern America is the northernmost region of the Americas, and is part of the North American continent. It lies directly north of the region of Middle America ; the land border between the two regions coincides with the border between the United States and Mexico....
    • Central America
      Central America

      Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
    • Caribbean
      Caribbean

      The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
  • by geography:
    • Canadian Arctic
    • Great Basin
      Great Basin

      The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. Its boundaries depend on how it is defined. Its most common definition is the contiguous drainage basin, roughly between the Wasatch Mountains, in Utah and the Sierra Nevada , that has no natural outlet to the sea....
    • Great Plains
      Great Plains

      The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada....
    • Great Lakes
      Great Lakes

      The St. Lawrence River Great Lakes are a chain of fresh water lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada ? United States border. Consisting of Lakes Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth....
    • The Greater Antilles
      Greater Antilles

      File:LocationGreaterAntilles.pngThe Greater Antilles is one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico--the four largest islands of the Antilles--the Greater Antilles constitutes almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies....
    • The Lesser Antilles
      Lesser Antilles

      The Lesser Antilles, also known as the Caribbees, are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Greater Antilles form the West Indies....
  • by geology:
    • Canadian Shield
      Canadian Shield

      The Canadian Shield — also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier Canadien — is a massive shield covered by a thin layer of soil that forms the nucleus of the North American craton....
    • North American craton
    • Slave craton
      Slave craton

      The Slave craton is a Canada geological formation located in the Northwest Territories. This craton is approximately in size and forms part of the Canadian Shield....
    • Superior craton
      Superior craton

      The Superior craton forms the core of both the North American continent and the Canadian Shield. It extends from Quebec in the east to eastern Manitoba in the west....
    • Wyoming craton
      Wyoming craton

      The Wyoming craton is located in the west-central United States and west-central Canada -- more specifically, in Montana, Wyoming, southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and parts of northern Utah....
  • by economics:
    • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
      North American Free Trade Agreement

      The North American Free Trade Agreement is a trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico....
    • Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
      Caribbean Community

      The Caribbean Community , is an organization of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies. CARICOM's main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy....
    • Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)


South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
 
  • by geography:
    • Altiplano
      Altiplano

      The Altiplano , in central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet....
    • Amazon Basin
      Amazon Basin

      The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The basin is located mainly in Brazil, but also stretches into Peru and several other countries....
    • Andes
      Andes

      The Andes form the world's longest exposed mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The range is over 7,000 km long, 200-700 km wide , and of an average height of about 4,000 m ....
    • Caribbean South America
      Caribbean South America

      Caribbean South America is a region of South America consisting of the nations that border the Caribbean Sea, namely:*Colombia*VenezuelaBut culturally, the Guianas are more similar to the Caribbean than any other countries in South America:...
    • Gran Chaco
      Gran Chaco

      The Gran Chaco , is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region, of the R?o de la Plata basin, divided between eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso....
    • Guiana
      South America

      South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
      s
    • Pampa
      Pampa

      The Pampas are the fertile South American lowlands that include the Argentina provinces of Buenos Aires Province, La Pampa Province, Santa Fe Province, Argentina, and C?rdoba Province, Argentina, most of Uruguay, and the southernmost end of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, covering more than ....
    • Pantanal
      Pantanal

      The Pantanal is a tropical wetland in South America, mostly within the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, and also portions in Bolivia and Paraguay....
    • Patagonia
      Patagonia

      Patagonia is a geographic region containing the southernmost portion of South America. Located in Argentina and Chile, it comprises the Andes mountains to the west and south, and plateaux and low plains to the east....
  • by economics (Union of South American Nations):
    • Andean Community
    • Mercosur
      Mercosur

      Mercosur or Mercosul is a Regional Trade Agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay founded in 1991 by the Treaty of Asunci?n, which was later amended and updated by the 1994 Treaty of Ouro Preto....


Eurasia
Eurasia

Eurasia is a large landmass covering about 53,990,000 km? or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface . Often considered a single continent, Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia, concepts which date back to classical antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary....
 


Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 
  • by UN subregion:
    • Western Asia
    • Central Asia
      Central Asia

      Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
    • Southern Asia
    • Eastern Asia
    • Southeastern Asia


  • by geography:
    • Central Asia
      Central Asia

      Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
    • Southwest Asia
      Southwest Asia

      Southwest Asia or Southwestern Asia is the southwestern subregion of Asia. The term West Asia is sometimes used in the United Nations subregion geoscheme and in writings about the archeology and the late prehistory of the region....
      • Arabian Peninsula
        Arabian Peninsula

        The Arabian Peninsula , Arabia, Arabistan, and the Arabian subcontinent is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia. The area is an important part of the Middle East and plays a critically important geopolitics role because of its vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas....
        /Gulf States
        Gulf states

        Gulf States can refer to:* Those states of the USA along the Gulf Coast of the United States: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida....
      • Anatolia
        Anatolia

        Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
      • Caucasus
        Caucasus

        The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
      • Levant
        Levant

        The Levant describes, traditionally, the Eastern Mediterranean at large, but can be used as a geographical term that denotes a large area in Western Asia formed by the lands bordering the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean, roughly bounded on the north by the Taurus Mountains, on the south by the Arabian Desert, and on the west by the M...
      • Mesopotamia
        Mesopotamia

        Mesopotamia is the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran....
      • Kurdistan
        Kurdistan

        Kurdistan is an extensive plateau and mountainous area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by Kurdish people. It covers parts of eastern Turkish Kurdistan, northern Iraqi Kurdistan, northwestern Iranian Kurdistan and smaller parts of northern Syria and Armenia....
      • Iranian Plateau
        Iranian plateau

        The Iranian plateau, also known as the Persian plateau is a geological formation in Southwest Asia, Southern Asia and the Caucasus region....
        /Balochistan
        Balochistan (region)

        Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid region located in the Iranian Plateau in Southwest Asia and South Asia, between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan....
    • North Asia
      North Asia

      North Asia or Northern Asia is sometimes defined as a subregion of Asia consisting only of the Asian portion of Russia. The term is not widely used....
       (see Siberia
      Siberia

      Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
      )
    • East Asia
      East Asia

      East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either Geography or cultural terms. Geography and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km?, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia....
    • South Asia
      South Asia

      South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
      , or the Indian subcontinent
      Indian subcontinent

      The Indian subcontinent is a large section of the Asian continent consisting of the land lying substantially on the Indian Plate. The subcontinent includes parts of various countries in South Asia, including those on the continental crust , an Island#Continental islands country on the continental shelf , and an Island#Oceanic islands countr...
      • Himalayan states
        Himalayan states

        Himalayan states is the name given collectively to all the countries/states which contain the mountain range of the Himalayas. Geographically, the Himalayan states lie in the Indian subcontinent....
      • Indo-Gangetic plains
      • Deccan Plateau
        Deccan Plateau

        The Deccan Plateau, also known as the Peninsular Plateau or the Great Peninsular Plateau, is a large plateau in India, making up the majority of the southern part of the country, ranging in elevation from 100 metres in the north to 1000 metres in the south....
        /Peninsular India
        South India

        South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area....
      • Indian Ocean states
        Indian Ocean states

        Indian Ocean Island States is the name given to those island states in the Indian subcontinent which lie in the Indian Ocean. These include:*Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka...
      • South India
        South India

        South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area....
      • North India
        North India

        Northern India is a loosely defined region in the northern part of India. The exact meaning of the term varies by usage. The dominant geographical features of northern India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from Tibet and Central Asia....
      • East India
        East India

        East India, or more properly Eastern India, is a List_of_regions_in_India of India consisting of the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Orissa....
      • Northeast India
      • West India
        West India

        West India or the Western region of India consists of the States and territories of India of Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra, along with the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
    • Southeast Asia
      Southeast Asia

      Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
      • Maritime/Malay Archipelago
        Malay Archipelago

        The Malay Archipelago and Maritime Southeast Asia are names given to the archipelago located between mainland Southeast Asia and Australia....
      • Mainland/Indochina
        Indochina

        Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a subregion in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly east of India, south of China.The word has French origins, Indochine, and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory to bordering countries....


  • other groupings:
    • Far East
      Far East

      The Far East is a term current in English language to refer to the countries of East Asia. The term is often expanded to also include Southeast Asia and South Asia, for economic and cultural reasons, for example because Buddhism is common to East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia....
    • Middle East
      Middle East

      File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
    • Near East
      Near East

      Near East today is an ambiguous term that covers different countries for archeologists and historians, on one hand, and for political scientists, economists, and journalists, on the other....


Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 
  • by UN subregion:
    • Western Europe
      Western Europe

      Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
    • Northern Europe
      Northern Europe

      Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as including the following countries and dependent regions:...
    • Southern Europe
      Southern Europe

      The term Southern Europe, at its most general definition, is used to mean 'all countries in the south of Europe'. However, the concept, at different times, has had different meanings, providing additional Policy, Linguistics and Culture context to the definition in addition to the typical Geography, Phytogeography or Clime approach....
    • Eastern Europe
      Eastern Europe

      Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i...
  • by peninsula:
    • Balkan Peninsula
    • Iberian Peninsula
      Iberian Peninsula

      The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
    • Italian Peninsula
      Italian Peninsula

      The Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula is one of the three peninsulas of Southern Europe , spanning 1,000 km from the Po Valley in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south....
    • Scandinavian Peninsula
      Scandinavian Peninsula

      The Scandinavian Peninsula is a geographic region in northern Europe, consisting of Norway and Sweden. The name Scandinavian is etymology Scania, a region at the southernmost extremity of the peninsula....
  • by other groupings:
    • Baltic States
    • Benelux
      Benelux

      The Benelux is an union in Western Europe that comprises three neighboring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg , which lie in the north western European region between France and Germany....
       or the Low Countries
      Low Countries

      The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the country on low-lying land around the river delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse River rivers....
    • the British Isles
      British Isles

      The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller islands....
    • Central Europe
      Central Europe

      Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern Europe and Western Europe Europe. In addition, Northern Europe, Southern Europe and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe....
    • Nordic countries
      Nordic countries

      File:Location Nordic Council.svgThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and far northeastern North America, called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and ?land....
       (Scandinavia
      Scandinavia

      Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
       (Denmark
      Denmark

      Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
      , Norway
      Norway

      Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
       and Sweden
      Sweden

      Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
      ), Iceland
      Iceland

      Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
      , Finland
      Finland

      Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
      , the Danish territories of Greenland
      Greenland

      Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
       and Faroe Islands
      Faroe Islands

      The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe or Faeroes are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately half way between Scotland and Iceland....
      , and the Finnish territory of Ĺland
      Ĺland

      The ?land Islands form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. It is situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and forms an Federacy, Demilitarized zone, Monoglottism Swedish language Provinces of Finland, Regions of Finland and historical provinces of Finland of Finland....
      )
    • Visegrád Group
      Visegrád Group

      File:Visegrad group.pngFile:Presidents of Visegrad group.jpgFile:Suza drotarska.jpgThe Visegr?d Group, also called the Visegr?d Four or V4, is an alliance of four Central European states – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – for the purposes of cooperation and furthering their European inte...
  • by geology
    • Baltic shield
      Baltic Shield

      The Baltic Shield is located in Fennoscandia , northwest Russia and under the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Shield is defined as the exposed Precambrian northwest segment of the East European Craton....
    • Ukrainian shields
    • East European craton
      East European craton

      The East European craton is the core of the Baltica proto-Tectonic plate and consists of three crustal regions/segments: Fennoscandia to the northwest, Volgo-Uralia to the east, and Sarmatian craton to the south....


Oceania
Oceania

Oceania is a geography, often geopolitics, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville....

  • Australasia
    Australasia

    Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes ....
     or Australia
    Australia (continent)

    Australia Sahul is the smallest of the geographic continents, though not of geological continents. There is no universally accepted definition of the word "continent"; the lay definition is "One of the main continuous bodies of land on the earth's surface." ....
    • by geography
      • Australian Capital Territory
        Australian Capital Territory

        The Australian Capital Territory is the Capital districts and territories of the Australia and its smallest States and territories of Australia....
      • New South Wales
        New South Wales

        New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
      • Northern Territory
        Northern Territory

        The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions....
      • Queensland
        Queensland

        Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
      • South Australia
        South Australia

        South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
      • Tasmania
        Tasmania

        Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
      • Victoria
        Victoria (Australia)

        File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
      • Western Australia
        Western Australia

        Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
      • Jervis Bay Territory
        Jervis Bay Territory

        The Jervis Bay Territory is a territory of the Australia. It was bought by the Commonwealth Government in 1915 from the state of New South Wales so that the Federal capital at Canberra would have access to the sea....
    • by geology
      • Yilgarn craton
        Yilgarn craton

        The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton which constitutes the bulk of the Western Australian land mass. It is bounded by a mixture of sedimentary basins and Proterozoic fold and thrust belts....
      • Pilbara craton
        Pilbara craton

        The Pilbara craton , along with the Kaapvaal craton are the only remaining areas of pristine Archaean 3.6-2.7 Gigaannum crust on Earth. Similarities of their rock records, especially the similarities in the overlying Late Archean sequences of both these cratons, suggest that they were once part of the Vaalbara supercontinent, and then believ...
  • Melanesia
    Melanesia

    Melanesia literally means "islands of the black-skinned people". It is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia....
  • Micronesia
    Micronesia

    Micronesia , from the Greek language mikros and nesos , is a subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the Pacific Ocean....
  • Polynesia
    Polynesia

    Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
  • South Pacific
    Pacific Ocean

    The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
  • North Pacific


See also

  • United Nations geoscheme
  • Continent
    Continent

    A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents ? they are : Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia ....
  • Subcontinent
    Subcontinent

    A subcontinent is a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent.The phrase the Subcontinent, used on its own in English, commonly means the Indian subcontinent, i.e....
  • Supercontinent
    Supercontinent

    In geology, a supercontinent is a landmass comprising more than one continental core, or craton. The assembly of cratons and terrane that form Eurasia qualifies as a supercontinent today....


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