✔✔Official Eight_ Regional _Groupings_ of_ the _World
I have divided the 196 countries of the world into eight regions. These eight regions provide a clear division of the world's countries.
✔✔ASIA
There are 27 countries in Asia; Asia stretches from former "stans" of the USSR to the Pacific Ocean.
✔Bangladesh
✔Bhutan
✔Brunei
✔Cambodia
✔China
✔India
✔Indonesia
✔Japan
✔Kazakhstan
✔North Korea
✔South Korea
✔Kyrgyzstan
✔Laos
✔Malaysia
✔Maldives
✔Mongolia
✔Myanmar
✔Nepal
✔Philippines
✔Singapore
✔Sri Lanka
✔Taiwan
✔Tajikistan
✔Thailand
✔Turkmenistan
✔Uzbekistan
✔Vietnam
✔✔MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA, AND GREATER ARABIA
✔The 23 countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and Greater Arabia include some countries not traditionally part of the Middle East but their cultures cause their placement in this region (such as Pakistan).
✔Afghanistan
✔Algeria
✔Azerbaijan*
✔Bahrain
✔Egypt
✔Iran
✔Iraq
✔Israel**
✔Jordan
✔Kuwait
✔Lebanon
✔Libya
✔Morocco
✔Oman
✔Pakistan
✔Qatar
✔Saudi Arabia
✔Somalia
✔Syria
✔Tunisia
✔Turkey
✔The United Arab Emirates
✔Yemen
✔✔* The former republics of the Soviet Union are typically lumped into one region, even twenty years after independence. In this listing, they've been placed where most appropriate.
✔✔** Israel may be located in the Middle East but it is certainly an outsider and perhaps better belongs attached to Europe, like its seaward neighbor and European Union member state, Cyprus.
✔✔EUROPE
With 48 countries, there aren't many surprises on this list. However, this region stretches from North America and back to North America as it encompasses Iceland and all of Russia.
✔Albania
✔Andorra
✔Armenia
✔Austria
✔Belarus
✔Belgium
✔Bosnia and Herzegovina
✔Bulgaria
✔Croatia
✔Cyprus
✔Czech Republic
✔Denmark
✔Estonia
✔Finland
✔France
✔Georgia
✔Germany
✔Greece
✔Hungary
✔Iceland*
✔Ireland
✔Italy
✔Kosovo
✔Latvia
✔Liechtenstein
✔Lithuania
✔Luxembourg
✔Macedonia
✔Malta
✔Moldova
✔Monaco
✔Montenegro
✔Netherlands
✔Norway
✔Poland
✔Portugal
✔Romania
✔Russia
✔San Marino
✔Serbia
✔Slovakia
✔Slovenia
✔Spain
✔Sweden
✔Switzerland
✔Ukraine
✔United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland**
Vatican City
✔* Iceland straddles the Eurasian plate and the North American plate so geographically it is halfway between Europe and North America. However, its culture and settlement are clearly European in nature.
✔** The United Kingdom is the country composed of the constituent entities known as England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
✔✔NORTH AMERICA
Economic powerhouse North America only includes three countries but it is most of a continent and thus a region onto itself.
✔Canada
✔Greenland*
✔Mexico
The United States of America
✔* Greenland is not yet an independent country.
✔✔CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
There are no landlocked countries among these twenty countries of Central America and the Caribbean.
✔Antigua and Barbuda
✔The Bahamas
✔Barbados
✔Belize
✔Costa Rica
✔Cuba
✔Dominica
✔Dominican Republic
✔El Salvador
✔Grenada
✔Guatemala
✔Haiti
✔Honduras
✔Jamaica
✔Nicaragua
✔Panama
✔Saint Kitts and Nevis
✔Saint Lucia
✔Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
✔Trinidad and Tobago
✔✔SOUTH AMERICA
Twelve countries occupy this continent that stretches from the equator to nearly the Antarctic Circle.
✔Argentina
✔Bolivia
✔Brazil
✔Chile
✔Colombia
✔Ecuador
✔Guyana
✔Paraguay
✔Peru
✔Suriname
✔Uruguay
✔Venezuela
✔✔SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
There are 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This region of Africa is often called Sub-Saharan Africa but some of these countries are actually Intra-Saharan (within the Sahara Desert).
✔Angola
✔Benin
✔Botswana
✔Burkina Faso
✔Burundi
✔Cameroon
✔Cape Verde
✔The Central African Republic
✔Chad
✔Comoros
✔Republic of the Congo
✔The Democratic Republic of the Congo
✔Cote d'Ivoire
✔Djibouti
✔Equatorial Guinea
✔Eritrea
✔Ethiopia
✔Gabon
✔The Gambia
✔Ghana
✔Guinea
✔Guinea-Bissau
✔Kenya
✔Lesotho
✔Liberia
✔Madagascar
✔Malawi
✔Mali
✔Mauritania
✔Mauritius
✔Mozambique
✔Namibia
✔Niger
✔Nigeria
✔Rwanda
✔Sao Tome and Principe
✔Senegal
✔Seychelles
✔Sierra Leone
✔South Africa
✔South Sudan
✔Sudan
✔Swaziland
✔Tanzania
✔Togo
✔Uganda
✔Zambia
✔Zimbabwe
✔✔AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
These fifteen countries vary widely in their cultures and occupy a large swath of the world ocean although (with the exception of the continent-country Australia), do not occupy much land.
✔Australia
✔East Timor*
✔Fiji
✔Kiribati
✔Marshall Islands
✔The Federated States of Micronesia
✔Nauru
✔New Zealand
✔Palau
✔Papua New Guinea
✔Samoa
✔Solomon Islands
✔Tonga
✔Tuvalu
✔Vanuatu
✔* While East Timor lies on an Indonesian (Asian) island, its eastern location requires that it be located in the Oceania nations of the world.
I have divided the 196 countries of the world into eight regions. These eight regions provide a clear division of the world's countries.
✔✔ASIA
There are 27 countries in Asia; Asia stretches from former "stans" of the USSR to the Pacific Ocean.
✔Bangladesh
✔Bhutan
✔Brunei
✔Cambodia
✔China
✔India
✔Indonesia
✔Japan
✔Kazakhstan
✔North Korea
✔South Korea
✔Kyrgyzstan
✔Laos
✔Malaysia
✔Maldives
✔Mongolia
✔Myanmar
✔Nepal
✔Philippines
✔Singapore
✔Sri Lanka
✔Taiwan
✔Tajikistan
✔Thailand
✔Turkmenistan
✔Uzbekistan
✔Vietnam
✔✔MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA, AND GREATER ARABIA
✔The 23 countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and Greater Arabia include some countries not traditionally part of the Middle East but their cultures cause their placement in this region (such as Pakistan).
✔Afghanistan
✔Algeria
✔Azerbaijan*
✔Bahrain
✔Egypt
✔Iran
✔Iraq
✔Israel**
✔Jordan
✔Kuwait
✔Lebanon
✔Libya
✔Morocco
✔Oman
✔Pakistan
✔Qatar
✔Saudi Arabia
✔Somalia
✔Syria
✔Tunisia
✔Turkey
✔The United Arab Emirates
✔Yemen
✔✔* The former republics of the Soviet Union are typically lumped into one region, even twenty years after independence. In this listing, they've been placed where most appropriate.
✔✔** Israel may be located in the Middle East but it is certainly an outsider and perhaps better belongs attached to Europe, like its seaward neighbor and European Union member state, Cyprus.
✔✔EUROPE
With 48 countries, there aren't many surprises on this list. However, this region stretches from North America and back to North America as it encompasses Iceland and all of Russia.
✔Albania
✔Andorra
✔Armenia
✔Austria
✔Belarus
✔Belgium
✔Bosnia and Herzegovina
✔Bulgaria
✔Croatia
✔Cyprus
✔Czech Republic
✔Denmark
✔Estonia
✔Finland
✔France
✔Georgia
✔Germany
✔Greece
✔Hungary
✔Iceland*
✔Ireland
✔Italy
✔Kosovo
✔Latvia
✔Liechtenstein
✔Lithuania
✔Luxembourg
✔Macedonia
✔Malta
✔Moldova
✔Monaco
✔Montenegro
✔Netherlands
✔Norway
✔Poland
✔Portugal
✔Romania
✔Russia
✔San Marino
✔Serbia
✔Slovakia
✔Slovenia
✔Spain
✔Sweden
✔Switzerland
✔Ukraine
✔United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland**
Vatican City
✔* Iceland straddles the Eurasian plate and the North American plate so geographically it is halfway between Europe and North America. However, its culture and settlement are clearly European in nature.
✔** The United Kingdom is the country composed of the constituent entities known as England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
✔✔NORTH AMERICA
Economic powerhouse North America only includes three countries but it is most of a continent and thus a region onto itself.
✔Canada
✔Greenland*
✔Mexico
The United States of America
✔* Greenland is not yet an independent country.
✔✔CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
There are no landlocked countries among these twenty countries of Central America and the Caribbean.
✔Antigua and Barbuda
✔The Bahamas
✔Barbados
✔Belize
✔Costa Rica
✔Cuba
✔Dominica
✔Dominican Republic
✔El Salvador
✔Grenada
✔Guatemala
✔Haiti
✔Honduras
✔Jamaica
✔Nicaragua
✔Panama
✔Saint Kitts and Nevis
✔Saint Lucia
✔Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
✔Trinidad and Tobago
✔✔SOUTH AMERICA
Twelve countries occupy this continent that stretches from the equator to nearly the Antarctic Circle.
✔Argentina
✔Bolivia
✔Brazil
✔Chile
✔Colombia
✔Ecuador
✔Guyana
✔Paraguay
✔Peru
✔Suriname
✔Uruguay
✔Venezuela
✔✔SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
There are 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This region of Africa is often called Sub-Saharan Africa but some of these countries are actually Intra-Saharan (within the Sahara Desert).
✔Angola
✔Benin
✔Botswana
✔Burkina Faso
✔Burundi
✔Cameroon
✔Cape Verde
✔The Central African Republic
✔Chad
✔Comoros
✔Republic of the Congo
✔The Democratic Republic of the Congo
✔Cote d'Ivoire
✔Djibouti
✔Equatorial Guinea
✔Eritrea
✔Ethiopia
✔Gabon
✔The Gambia
✔Ghana
✔Guinea
✔Guinea-Bissau
✔Kenya
✔Lesotho
✔Liberia
✔Madagascar
✔Malawi
✔Mali
✔Mauritania
✔Mauritius
✔Mozambique
✔Namibia
✔Niger
✔Nigeria
✔Rwanda
✔Sao Tome and Principe
✔Senegal
✔Seychelles
✔Sierra Leone
✔South Africa
✔South Sudan
✔Sudan
✔Swaziland
✔Tanzania
✔Togo
✔Uganda
✔Zambia
✔Zimbabwe
✔✔AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
These fifteen countries vary widely in their cultures and occupy a large swath of the world ocean although (with the exception of the continent-country Australia), do not occupy much land.
✔Australia
✔East Timor*
✔Fiji
✔Kiribati
✔Marshall Islands
✔The Federated States of Micronesia
✔Nauru
✔New Zealand
✔Palau
✔Papua New Guinea
✔Samoa
✔Solomon Islands
✔Tonga
✔Tuvalu
✔Vanuatu
✔* While East Timor lies on an Indonesian (Asian) island, its eastern location requires that it be located in the Oceania nations of the world.
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