Central Asia • • • • •
Eastern Asia • • • • (North Korea) • • • (South Korea)
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. • The Unicode
CLDR's "Territory Containment (UN M.49)" includes Taiwan in its presentation of the UN M.49. • The
public domain map data set Natural Earth has metadata in the fields named "region_un" and "subregion" for Taiwan. • The regional split recommended by
Lloyd's of London for Eastern Asia (UN statistical divisions of Eastern Asia) contains Taiwan. • Based on the United Nations statistical divisions, the
APRICOT (conference) includes Taiwan in East Asia. • 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. • Taiwan is also included in the UN Geoscheme of Eastern Asia in one systematic review on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Note on Northern Asia This unofficial subregion covers the entire geographical region of
Siberia. Since this region as a whole falls under the
transcontinental country of
Russia, for statistical convenience, Russia is assigned under
Eastern Europe by the UNSD, including both
European Russia and
Asian Russia under a single subregion. Hence, there is no geopolitical entity that is currently grouped under Northern Asia.
South-eastern Asia This subregion covers the geographical regions of
Mainland Southeast Asia and
Maritime Southeast Asia, covering the following geopolitical entities as a whole: • • • • • • • • • • •
Southern Asia This subregion covers the geographical regions of the
Indian subcontinent and the
Iranian plateau, covering the following geopolitical entities as a whole: • • • • • • • • •
Western Asia This subregion covers the geographical regions spanning over
the Armenian Highlands,
Anatolia,
Arabia, the
Levant,
Mesopotamia, and the
South Caucasus, covering the following geopolitical entities as a whole: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • == Europe ==