THE WORLD BY REGION
The World by Region
Americas
These geographic regions are used throughout this atlas. Data are included for those countries with populations of 500,000 or more.
Central & South Asia East & SE Asia & Oceania Europe Middle East & North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
Sweden Est. Lat. Denmark Lith. The Rus. Fed. Ireland Neth. Poland Germany Bel. Cz. Rep. Sl. Rep. A. Hun. France S. Sl. Rom. Cr. B.H.Serb. Italy M. Alb. FYR Spain Portugal Mac. Greece
C a n a d a
United States
Algeria
Dominican Rep.
Cuba
Libya
Jamaica Haiti Mauritania Senegal The Gambia Guinea-Bissau Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia
R. B. de Trinidad and Venezuela Tobago Guyana
Panama
Colombia
Mali
Burkina Faso Côte d’Ivoire
Ecuador Peru
Kazakhstan
Chad Nigeria
Equatorial Cameroon Guinea Gabon Rep. Congo
Central African Rep. Dem. Rep. of Congo
Mo n g o l i a
Moldova
Uzbekistan Georgia Azerbaijan Turkey Armenia Turkmenistan
Bulgaria
I. R. of Iran
Kyrgyz Rep.
Sudan
D.P.R. of Korea
Tajikistan
Nepal
Bhutan Lao P.D.R.
India Bangladesh Myanmar
Vietnam
Angola
Philippines
Cambodia Ethiopia
Sri Lanka
Somalia Uganda Kenya Rwanda Burundi
Thailand
Singapore
Malaysia
I n d o n e s i a
Tanzania
Brazil
Japan
Rep. of Korea
C h i n a
Afghanistan
Kuwait Pakistan Bahrain Qatar United Arab Saudi Emirates Arabia Oman Eritrea Rep. of Yemen
West Bank & Gaza
Arab Rep. of Egypt
Niger
Ghana Togo Benin
Honduras Guatemala El Salvador Nicaragua Costa Rica
Belarus Ukraine
Cyprus Syrian Arab Rep. Lebanon Iraq Jordan Israel and
Tunisia
Morocco Mexico
Russian Federation
Finland
Norway United Kingdom
Comoros
Zambia
Timor-Leste
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Malawi Bolivia Chile
Human security is primarily about people, not about states. Well over half the world's people live in only two regions – Central & South Asia and East & SE Asia & Oceania. And another two regions – Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa – contain almost half the world’s countries. It is useful to remember these disparities when interpreting the regional figures and country-by-country maps in this atlas. 6
Namibia Paraguay
Botswana
Argentina
South Africa
Uruguay
Zimbabwe
Madagascar
Fiji
Australia
Swaziland Lesotho
2,089 million 1,545 million
36
20
715 million
35% 30%
43
451 million
Mauritius
Mozambique
727 million
878 million
25% 20%
25 20 15
15% 10% 5% 0%
Middle East & North Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe
Americas
New Zealand
Central & South Asia
East & SE Asia & Oceania
HOW MANY PEOPLE? HOW MANY STATES? Percentage of world population and states in each region 2005 population (rounded to nearest million) states
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