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Groupings
Main regions:
NORTH AMERICA
Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, St Pierre and Miquelon, United States
LATIN AMERICA
Central America (including Mexico)
Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Saint Martin, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, Virgin Islands (Brit), Virgin Islands (US)
South America
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Guyane, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia & Sandwich, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
EUROPE
Northwest Europe
Belgium, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
Southern Europe
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland
Eastern Europe (including Russia)
Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
AFRICA
North and Northwest Africa
Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Egypt, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Western Sahara
West Africa
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Cote D'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Togo
South and East Africa
Botswana, Burundi, Comoros (inc. Mayotte), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Reunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan (North), South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
THE MIDDLE EAST
Arabia and Persia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Eastern Mediterranean (including Cyprus and Turkey)
Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Turkey
ASIA-PACIFIC
Central Asia
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
North Asia
China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea (North), Korea (South), Macao, Mongolia, Taiwan
South Asia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Southeast Asia
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Australasia
American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam (inc. Marianas), Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
ANTARCTICA
None
Other sub-regions:
Scandinavia
Denmark, Faeroes Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
The Balkans
Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
The Caribbean
Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (USA)
The Former Soviet Union
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
West Oceania
Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste
South Pacific
American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam (Inc. Marianas), Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Political Groups:
OPEC
Iran (1960), Iraq (1960), Kuwait (1960), Saudi Arabia (1960), Venezuela (1960), Qatar (1961), Libya (1962), Indonesia (1962-2008, 2015-2016 suspended), United Arab Emirates (1967), Algeria (1969), Nigeria (1971), Ecuador (1973-1992, 2007-2019), Gabon (1975-1994, 2016), Angola (2007), Equatorial Guinea (2017), Congo-Brazzaville (2018).
IEA
Austria (1974), Belgium (1974), Canada (1974), Denmark (1974), Germany (1974), Ireland (1974), Italy (1974), Japan (1974), Luxembourg (1974), Netherlands (1974), Norway (1974), Spain (1974), Sweden (1974), Switzerland (1974), Turkey (1974), United Kingdom (1974), United States (1974), Greece (1977), New Zealand (1977), Australia (1979), Portugal (1981), Finland (1992), France (1992), Hungary (1997), Czech Republic (2001), Korea (South) (2002), Slovak Republic (2007), Poland (2008)
OECD
Austria (1961), Belgium (1961), Canada (1961), Denmark (1961), France (1961), Germany (1961), Greece (1961), Iceland (1961), Ireland (1961), Luxembourg (1961), Netherlands (1961), Norway (1961), Portugal (1961), Spain (1961), Sweden (1961), Switzerland (1961), Turkey (1961), United Kingdom (1961), United States (1961), Italy (1962), Japan (1964), Finland (1969), Australia (1971), New Zealand (1973), Mexico (1994), Czech Republic (1995), Hungary (1996), Korea (South) (1996), Poland (1996), Slovak Republic (2000), Chile (2010), Estonia (2010), Israel (2010), Slovenia (2010)
EU
Belgium (1967), France (1967), Germany (1967), Italy (1967), Luxembourg (1967), Netherlands (1967), Denmark (1973), Ireland (1973), United Kingdom (1973-2020), Greece (1981), Portugal (1986), Spain (1986), Austria (1995), Finland (1995), Sweden (1995), Cyprus (2004), Czech Republic (2004), Estonia (2004), Hungary (2004), Latvia (2004), Lithuania (2004), Malta (2004), Poland (2004), Slovak Republic (2004), Slovenia (2004), Bulgaria (2007), Romania (2007), Croatia (2013)
ASEAN
Indonesia (1967), Malaysia (1967), Philippines (1967), Singapore (1967), Thailand (1967), Papua New Guinea (1976), Vietnam (1995), Laos (1997), Myanmar (1997), Cambodia (1999)
ARAB LEAGUE
Egypt (1945), Iraq (1945), Jordan (1945), Lebanon (1945), Saudi Arabia (1945), Syria (1945), Yemen (1945), Libya (1956), Sudan (North) (1956), Sudan (South) (1956), Morocco (1958), Tunisia (1958), Kuwait (1961), Algeria (1962), Bahrain (1971), Oman (1971), Qatar (1971), United Arab Emirates (1971), Mauritania (1973), Somalia (1974), Palestinian Territories (1976), Djibouti (1977), Comoros (inc. Mayotte) (1993)
APEC
Australia (1989), Brunei (1989), Canada (1989), Indonesia (1989), Japan (1989), Korea (South) (1989), Malaysia (1989), New Zealand (1989), Philippines (1989), Singapore (1989), Thailand (1989), United States (1989), China (1991), Hong Kong (1991), Taiwan (1991), Mexico (1993), Papua New Guinea (1993), Chile (1994), Peru (1998), Russia (1998), Vietnam (1998)
*years of joining, leaving, and rejoining in brackets
Regions
Groups the world’s countries into geographic groups and political groups for regional analysis.
The 6 mega-regions*:
NORTH AMERICA
LATIN AMERICA
EUROPE
AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
ASIA-PACIFIC
These may be subdivided into sub-regions including:
Central America
South America
Northwest Europe
Southern Europe
Eastern Europe
N. and Northwest Africa
West Africa
South and East Africa
Arabia and Persia
Eastern Mediterranean
Central Asia
North Asia
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Australasia
And others:
Scandinavia
Balkans
Caribbean
Former Soviet Union
West Oceania
South Pacific
The main political groupings comprise:
OPEC
EU
IEA
OECD
ASEAN
ARAB LEAGUE
APEC
*excludes Antarctica
