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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 Recognised Countries==
The United Nations recognizes 237 countries (or did when this data was retrieved in 2007), ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. A complete list is available in [http://www.edegan.com/repository/UN-GeoRegionCodes.txt UN-GeoRegionCodes.txt].
==UN Minor GeoRegions==
The United Nations aggregates countries into 22 (Minor) GeoRegions, based largely on world geography. The Minor GeoRegions are:
*Australia and New Zealand
*Caribbean
*Central America
*Central Asia
*Eastern Africa
*Eastern Asia
*Eastern Europe
*Melanesia
*Micronesia
*Middle Africa
*Northern Africa
*Northern America
*Northern Europe
*Polynesia
*South America
*South-Eastern Asia
*Southern Africa
*Southern Asia
*Southern Europe
*Western Africa
*Western Asia
*Western Europe
[[File:UN-MinorGeoRegions.png|frame|UN Minor GeoRegions - (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.
