United Nations geoscheme for Asia

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The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme[1] for Asia.[2] The UNSD notes that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories".[3]

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United Nations geoscheme subregions of Asia:
  Eastern Asia
  Central Asia
  Western Asia
  Southeastern Asia
  Southern Asia

Central Asia

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Eastern Asia

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Note on Taiwan

Several institutions and research papers using classification schemes based on the UN geoscheme include Taiwan separately in their divisions of Eastern Asia. (1) The Unicode CLDR's "Territory Containment (UN M.49)" includes Taiwan in its presentation of the UN M.49.[4] (2) The public domain map dataset Natural Earth has metadata in the fields named "region_un" and "subregion" for Taiwan. (3)The regional split recommended by Lloyd's of London for Eastern Asia (UN statistical divisions of Eastern Asia) contains Taiwan.[5] (4) Based on the United Nations statistical divisions, the APRICOT (conference) includes Taiwan in East Asia.[6] (5) Studying Website Usability in Asia, Ather Nawaz and Torkil Clemmensen select Asian countries on the basis of United Nations statistical divisions, and Taiwan is also included.[7] (6) Taiwan is also included in the UN Geoscheme of Eastern Asia in one systematic review on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [8]

Southern Asia

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Southeastern Asia

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Western Asia

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See also

References

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  3. Standard country or area codes and geographical regions for statistical use
  4. Territory Containment (UN M.49)
  5. Geographical diversification and Solvency II: A proposal by Lloyd’s
  6. Countries in APRICOT's Region
  7. Website Usability in Asia ‘from Within’: An Overview of a Decade of Literature International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 29, issue 4 (2013), pp. 256-273.
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