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Appendix E: Countries and territories by regional classification

Africa
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Dem. Rep. of the Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali	Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Reunion Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan St. Helena Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe

Asia-Pacific
Afghanistan American Samoa Ashmore and Cartier Islands Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bhutan British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cook Islands Christmas Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Guam Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Maldives	Marshall Islands Mongolia Nauru Nepal New Caledonia New Zealand Niue Norfolk Island North Korea Northern Mariana Islands Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Singapore Solomon Islands South Korea Sri Lanka Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Tokelau Tonga Tromelin Islands Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam Wallis and Futuna

Europe²⁴
Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria Channel Islands Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faeroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Isle of Man Italy	Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Macedonia Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City

Latin America and the Caribbean
Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curacao Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Falkland Islands (Malvinas) French Guiana	Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Martin Sint Maarten St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands Uruguay Venezuela

Middle East
Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian Territories²⁵	Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen

North America²⁶
Bermuda Canada Greenland St. Pierre and Miquelon United States

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USSR and Czechoslovakia were included as countries of citizenship in the dataset in 2004; they accounted for less than 1% of the population. Serbia prior to 2001 was also included.↩
Palestinian territories include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.↩
Individuals who are stateless, from the Neutral Zone and whose citizenship is unknown are also included but do not fall under any region classification. They accounted for less than 1% of the whole population.↩

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