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PACIFIC OCEAN (40)
Australia Bismark Archipelago (New Ireland, New Britain, Bougainville, Admiralty Islands) Chatham Islands Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Penrhyn) Easter Island Fiji Islands French Polynesia (Tahiti,Tuamotu, Austral, Gambier) Galapagos Islands Guam Hawaiian Islands Johnston Island Juan Fernandez Islands (Robinson Crusoe Island) Kiribati (Gilberts,Tarawa, Ocean Island) Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury, Howland) Lord Howe Island Marquesas Islands Marshall Islands, Republic of (Majuro, Kwajalein, Eniwetok) Micronesia, Fed.States of (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk,Yap,Caroline Islands) Midway Island	Nauru New Caledonia & Deps. (Noumea, Loyalty Islands) New Zealand Niue Norfolk Island Northern Marianas (Saipan, Tinian) Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima) Palau, Republic of Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Island Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) Samoa, American (Pago Pago) Samoa, Western (Apia) Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia,Tulagi) Tasmania Tokelau Islands (Fakaofu, Atafu, Union) Tonga (Nukualofa) Tuvalu (Ellice Island, Funafuti, Vaitapu) Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands) Wake Island Wallis & Futuna Islands
NORTH AMERICA (6)
Alaska Canada Mexico	Prince Edward Island St. Pierre & Miquelon United States (continental)
CENTRAL AMERICA (7)
Belize (British Honduras) Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala	Honduras Nicaragua Panama
SOUTH AMERICA (13)
Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador French Guiana	Guyana (British Guiana) Paraguay Peru Suriname (Netherlands Guiana) Uruguay Venezuela
CARIBBEAN (27)
Anguilla Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda) Aruba Bahamas Barbados Cayman Islands Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada & Deps. (Carriacou, Grenadines) Guadeloupe & Deps.(Marie Galante) Haiti Jamaica Leeward Islands, French (St. Martin, St. Barts)	Leeward Islands, Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten) Martinique Montserrat Netherlands Antilles (Curacao, Bonaire) Puerto Rico San Andres & Providencia St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & Deps. (Bequia, Canouan Grenadines) Trinidad & Tobago Turks & Caicos Islands Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas) Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)
ATLANTIC OCEAN (13)
Ascension Azores Islands Bermuda Canary Islands Cape Verde Islands Falkland Islands Fernando do Noronha	Faroe Islands Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) Iceland Madeira St. Helena Tristan de Cunha
EUROPE & MEDITERRANEAN (67)
Aland Islands (Mariehamn) Albania Andorra Austria Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca) Belarus Belgium Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Bulgaria Corsica Crete Croatia Cyprus, Republic Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State Czech Federated Rep. Denmark Dodecanese Is. (Rhodes) England Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Guernsey & Deps (Alderney, Herm, Sark, Channel Islands) Hungary Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.) Ireland (Eire) Ireland, Northern (Ulster) Isle of Man Italy Jersey (Channel Islands) Kaliningrad Kosovo	Lampedusa Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Sardinia Scotland Serbia Sicily Slovakia Slovenia Spain Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island) Srpska Sweden Switzerland Trans Dniester Turkey in Europe (Istanbul) Ukraine Vatican City Wales
ANTARCTICA (7)
Argentine South Pole Australian Antarctic Territory South Pole (Mawson, Davis, Macquarie, Heard) Chilean South Pole Falkland Islands Dependencies (British Antarctica, Graham Land, So. Shetland, So. Sandwich, So. Georgia, So. Orkney)	French Southern & Antarctic Territory South Pole (Kerguelen, Crozet, Amsterdam, St. Paul) Norwegian (Bouvet) New Zealand South Pole (Ross Dependency)
AFRICA (52)
Algeria Angola Benin (Dahomey) Botswana (Bechuanaland) Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Burundi (Urundi) Cameroon Central African Rep. Chad Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni, Fernando Poo) Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland) Guinea (French) Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho (Basutoland) Liberia Libya	Malawi (Nyasaland) Mali Mauritania Morocco Morocco,Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla) Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia (Italian Somaliland) Somaliland (Brit.) South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania (Tanganyika) Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara) Zambia (No. Rhodesia) Zanzibar Zimbabwe (So. Rhodesia)
MIDDLE EAST (20)
Abu Dhabi Ajman Bahrain Dubai Fujeirah Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait	Lebanon Oman Palestine Qatar Ras Al Khaimah Saudi Arabia Sharjah Syria Umm Al Qaiwain Yemen
INDIAN OCEAN (14)
Andaman-Nicobar Islands British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos, Arch, Diego Garcia) Christmas Island Cocos Islands (Keeling) Comoro Islands (Anjouan Moheli, Grand Comoro) Lakshadweep,Union Terr. Of ( Laccadive Is.) Madagascar	Maldive Islands Mauritius & Deps. (Agalega, St. Brandon) Mayotte (Dzaoudzi) Reunion & Deps. (Tromelin, Glorioso) Rodriguez Island Seychelles Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Is.)
ASIA (49)
Afghanistan Armenia (Yerevan) Azerbaijan (Baku) Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China, People's Rep. East Timor Georgia Hainan Island Hong Kong India Indonesia (Java) Irian Jaya (Dutch New Guinea) Japan Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) Kashmir Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Korea, North Korea, South Laos Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali,Timor, Indonesia) Macau	Malaysia Moluka Mongolia, Rep. Myanmar (Burma) Nakhichevan Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sabah (No. Borneo) Sarawak Siberia (Russia in Asia) Sikkim Singapore Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia) Sumatra (Indonesia) Taiwan. R.O.C. Tajikistan Thailand Tibet Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir) Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam
THIS LIST IS RECOGNIZED BY THE WORLD AS THE STANDARD OF COUNTRIES AND DESTINATIONS THAT ARE POLITICALLY, ETHNOLOGICALLY OR GEOGRAPHICALLY DIFFERENT.

2. Enclaves/Continental Separation: Continental land areas having a common government or administration but which are geographically discontinuous either by reason of being separated by foreign land not under their control, by being located on separate continents, or by being separated by a natural body of water shall be considered as separate countries provided their population exceeds 100,000. Multiple fragments separated by the same foreign country shall only count for one country.

3. Federations: A geographic entity which is a federation of separate geographically definable entitiSes, each of which is a separate republic/emirate/kingdom in its own right shall be counted as separate countries.

4. Islands/island Groups:

a. In island/island group not separately defined under section I shall be considered a separate country if.

1. It is situated at least 200 miles from the closest continental portion of its administrating country; or
2. Being located within 200 miles, it has a population exceeding 100,000 and is administered as distinctively separate state(s), province(s), or department(s).

b. Island groups that are parts of an island country within the definition of section I shall be considered separate countries if.,

1. They are situated at least 200 miles from the closest portion of the same island country; or
2. Being located within 200 miles, they have a population exceeding 100,000 and are administered as distinctively separate states, provinces, or departments.

5. Disputed Status: Geographically defined areas which have historically had an independent identity and whose current political status is the subject of dispute shall be counted as separate countries.

6. Unpopulated/Unadministered Areas: Any area which is unadministered or has no resident population will not be considered as a separate country, except for the political divisions of the Antartica.

7. Grandfather Clause. An area which is recognized as a country in the past may be retained as a country even if it does not fit any of the above criteria and any country that is deleted from the list will still count for the purposes of having reached the minimum number of countries required for membership or for the 150 or 200 country levels.