United Nations geoscheme for the Americas
- United Nations geoscheme for the Americas
geoscheme|the Americas [ [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings] , United Nations Statistics Division. Revised August 28, 2007. Accessed on line October 13, 2007.]
Within this scheme, the North American continent comprises (from north to south) the subregions of Northern America, Central America, and the Caribbean, while everything south of Northern America – including all of South America – is included mainly in Latin America.
Northern America
*Bermuda
*Canada
*Greenland
*Saint Pierre and Miquelon
*United States of America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean
*Anguilla
*Antigua and Barbuda
*Aruba
*Bahamas
*Barbados
*British Virgin Islands
*Cayman Islands
*Cuba
*Dominica
*Dominican Republic
*Grenada
*Guadeloupe
*Haiti
*Jamaica
*Martinique
*Montserrat
*Netherlands Antilles
*Puerto Rico
*Saint-Barthélemy
*Saint Kitts and Nevis
*Saint Lucia
*Saint Martin (France)
*Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
*Trinidad and Tobago
*Turks and Caicos Islands
*United States Virgin Islands
Central America
*Belize2
*Costa Rica
*El Salvador
*Guatemala
*Honduras
*Mexico1
*Nicaragua
*Panama21. Other sources generally exclude Mexico from Central America.2. In other schemes, Belize and Panama are also often excluded from the definition of Central America.
outh America
*Argentina
*Bolivia
*Brazil
*Chile
*Colombia
*Ecuador
*Falkland Islands
*French Guiana
*Guyana
*Paraguay
*Peru
*Suriname
*Uruguay
*Venezuela
ee also
*UN geoscheme
*Americas (terminology)
*United Nations Statistics Division
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