United Nations geoscheme
The United Nations divided the world for statistical purposes in the following geographical macro-regions ( continents) and geographical sub-regions ( sub-continental ), where a code is assigned to each:
001 world
- 002 Africa 014 Eastern Africa
- 017 Middle Africa
- 015 Northern Africa
- 018 Southern Africa
- 011 West Africa
- 019 America 419 Latin America and the Caribbean 029 Caribbean
- 013 Central America
- 005 South America
- 009 Oceania 053 Australia and New Zealand
- 054 Melanesia
- 057 Micronesia
- 061 Polynesia