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*This page is a part of series in [[Classifying Names by Culture]]
The [http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm United Nations Statistics Division] provides recognized names and codings for the World's countries, areas and regions that have many research applications. A text version of this classification scheme is provided in [http://www.edegan.com/repository/UN-GeoRegions.txt UN-GeoRegions.txt]. For users' convenience these names and codings have been organised into two text files: [http://www.edegan.com/repository/UN-GeoRegionCodes.txt UN-GeoRegionCodes.txt] and [http://www.edegan.com/repository/UN-GeoMaMiCodes.txt UN-GeoMaMiCodes.txt].
==UN Minor GeoRegions==
The United Nations aggregates countries into 22 (Minor) GeoRegions, based largely on world geography. The UN Minor GeoRegions are:
*Australia and New Zealand
*Caribbean
*Western Europe
[[File:UN-MinorGeoRegions.png|frame|UN Minor GeoRegions Map - (C)wikicommons]]
==UN Major GeoRegions==
The UN Major GeoRegions are the five major continents: *Africa, *Americas, *Asia, *Europe, and *Oceania. This fits well with the six content version (excluding Antartica) of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents | defacto standard continent definitions], with Australasia being named Oceania.
