United Nations, DESA - Population Division

Population Estimates and Projections Section

World Urbanization Prospects: The 2009 Revision

CD-ROM Edition - Data in digital form
March 2010

 

Classification of countries by major area and region of the world

 

 

Africa

 

Eastern Africa

Middle Africa

Northern Africa

Western Africa

 

 

 

 

Burundi

Angola

 Algeria

Benin

Comoros

Cameroon

 Egypt

Burkina Faso

Djibouti

Central African Republic

 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Cape Verde

Eritrea

Chad

 Morocco

Côte d¡¯Ivoire

Ethiopia

Congo

 Sudan

Gambia

Kenya

Democratic Republic of the

 Tunisia

Ghana

Madagascar

Congo

 Western Sahara

Guinea

Malawi

Equatorial Guinea

 

Guinea-Bissau

Mauritius [1]

Gabon

Southern Africa

Liberia

Mayotte

São Tom¨¦ and Pr¨ªncipe

 

Mali

Mozambique

 

Botswana

Mauritania

R¨¦union

 

Lesotho

Niger

Rwanda

 

Namibia

Nigeria

Seychelles*

 

South Africa

Saint Helena [2] *

Somalia

 

Swaziland

Senegal

Uganda

 

 

Sierra Leone

United Republic of Tanzania

 

 

Togo

Zambia

 

 

 

Zimbabwe

 

 

 

 

Asia

 

Eastern Asia

South-Central Asia [3]

South-Eastern Asia

Western Asia

 

 

 

 

China

Afghanistan

Brunei Darussalam

Armenia

China, Hong Kong SAR

Bangladesh

Cambodia

Azerbaijan

China, Macao SAR

Bhutan

Indonesia

Bahrain

Democratic People¡¯s

India

Lao People¡¯s Democratic

Cyprus

Republic of Korea

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Republic

Georgia

Japan

Kazakhstan

Malaysia

Iraq

Mongolia

Kyrgyzstan

Myanmar

Israel

Republic of Korea

Maldives

Philippines

Jordan

 

Nepal

Singapore

Kuwait

 

Pakistan

Timor-Leste

Lebanon

 

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Occupied Palestinian

 

Tajikistan

Viet Nam

Territory

 

Turkmenistan

 

Oman

 

Uzbekistan

 

Qatar

 

 

 

Saudi Arabia

 

 

 

Syrian Arab Republic

 

 

 

Turkey

 

 

 

United Arab Emirates

 

 

 

Yemen


Europe

 

Eastern Europe

Northern Europe

Southern Europe

Western Europe

 

 

 

 

Belarus

Channel Islands [4]

Albania

Austria

Bulgaria

Denmark

Andorra*

Belgium

Czech Republic

Estonia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

France

Hungary

Faeroe Islands*

Croatia

Germany

Moldova

Finland [5]

Gibraltar*

Liechtenstein*

Poland

Iceland

Greece

Luxembourg

Romania

Ireland

Holy See [6] *

Monaco*

Russian Federation

Isle of Man*

Italy

Netherlands

Slovakia

Latvia

Malta

Switzerland

Ukraine

Lithuania

Montenegro

 

 

Norway [7]

Portugal

 

 

Sweden

San Marino*

 

 

United Kingdom of Great

Serbia

 

 

Britain and Northern

Slovenia

 

 

Ireland [8]

Spain

 

 

 

The former Yugoslav

 

 

 

Republic of Macedonia [9]

 

 

 

Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Caribbean

Central America

South America

 

 

 

 

 

Anguilla

Belize

Argentina

 

Antigua and Barbuda*

Costa Rica

Bolivia

 

Aruba

El Salvador

Brazil

 

Bahamas

Guatemala

Chile

 

Barbados

Honduras

Colombia

 

British Virgin Islands*

Mexico

Ecuador

 

Cayman Islands*

Nicaragua

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)*

 

Cuba

Panama

French Guiana

 

Dominica*

 

Guyana

 

Dominican Republic

 

Paraguay

 

Grenada

 

Peru

 

Guadeloupe

 

Suriname

 

Haiti

 

Uruguay

 

Jamaica

 

Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep. of)

 

Martinique

 

 

 

Montserrat*

 

 

 

Netherlands Antilles

 

 

 

Puerto Rico

 

 

 

Saint Kitts and Nevis*

 

 

 

Saint Lucia

 

 

 

Saint Vincent and the

 

 

 

Grenadines

 

 

 

Trinidad and Tobago

 

 

 

Turks and Caicos Islands*

 

 

 

United States Virgin Islands

 

 

 

 


Northern America

 

 

 

   

Bermuda*

 

   

Canada

 

   

Greenland*

 

   

Saint Pierre and Miquelon*

 

   

United States of America

 

   

 

 

 

Oceania

 

Australia/New Zealand

Melanesia

Micronesia

Polynesia

 

 

 

 

Australia [10]

Fiji

Guam

American Samoa*

New Zealand

New Caledonia

Kiribati*

Cook Islands*

 

Papua New Guinea

Marshall Islands*

French Polynesia

 

Solomon Islands

Micronesia

Niue*

 

Vanuatu

(Federated States of)

Pitcairn*

 

 

Nauru*

Samoa

 

 

Northern Mariana Islands*

Tokelau*

 

 

Palau*

Tonga

 

 

 

Tuvalu*

 

 

 

Wallis and Futuna Islands*

 

 

Sub-Saharan Africa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angola

Côte d'Ivoire

Kenya

Nigeria

Swaziland

Benin

Democratic Republic

Lesotho

R¨¦union

Togo

Botswana

of the Congo

Liberia

Rwanda

Uganda

Burkina Faso

Djibouti

Madagascar

Saint Helena

United Republic

Burundi

Equatorial Guinea

Malawi

São Tom¨¦ and Pr¨ªncipe

of Tanzania

Cameroon

Eritrea

Mali

Senegal

Zambia

Cape Verde

Ethiopia

Mauritania

Seychelles

Zimbabwe

Central African Republic

Gabon

Mauritius

Sierra Leone

 

Chad

Gambia

Mayotte

Somalia

 

Comoros

Ghana

Mozambique

South Africa

 

Congo

Guinea

Namibia

Sudan

 

 

Guinea-Bissau

Niger

 

 

 


 

Least developed countries

 

 

 

 

Afghanistan

Gambia

Rwanda

Angola

Guinea

Samoa

Bangladesh

Guinea-Bissau

São Tomé and Príncipe

Benin

Haiti

Senegal

Bhutan

Kiribati

Sierra Leone

Burkina Faso

Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Solomon Islands

Burundi

Lesotho

Somalia

Cambodia

Liberia

Sudan

Central African Republic

Madagascar

Timor-Leste

Chad

Malawi

Togo

Comoros

Maldives

Tuvalu

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mali

Uganda

Djibouti

Mauritania

United Republic of Tanzania

Equatorial Guinea

Mozambique

Vanuatu

Eritrea

Myanmar

Yemen

Ethiopia

Nepal

Zambia

Niger

 

 

 

 

 

Notes

 

The designations employed in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

The designations “more developed regions” and “less developed regions” are used for statistical convenience and do not necessarily express a judgment about the stage reached by a particular country or area in the development process. The term “country” as used in this publication also refers, as appropriate, to territories or areas.

The more developed regions comprise all regions of Europe plus Northern America, Australia/New Zealand and Japan. The term “developed countries” is used to designate countries in the more developed regions.

The less developed regions comprise all regions of Africa, Asia (excluding Japan) and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The term “developing countries” is used to designate countries in the less developed regions.

The group of least developed countries, as defined by the United Nations General Assembly in resolutions 59/209, 59/210 and 60/33, as of January 2008 comprises 49 countries, 33 of which are located in Africa, 10 in Asia, one in Latin America and the Caribbean, and five in Oceania (Botswana graduated in 1994 and Cape Verde in December 2007 from the group of least developed countries).

The designation sub-Saharan Africa is commonly used to indicate all of Africa except northern Africa, with the Sudan included in sub-Saharan Africa.Countries and areas are grouped geographically into six major areas: Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; Northern America; and Oceania. These major areas are further divided into 21 geographical regions.Country names and the composition of geographical areas follow those presented in “Standard country or area codes for statistical use” (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/49/Rev.3), available at:  http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm.

Names of cities or urban agglomerations are presented in their original language, following the names used by National Statistical Offices or the United Nations Demographic Yearbook. For cities with names in more than one language, different names are separated by a hyphen. If the country uses non-Latin scripts, a transliteration of the original spelling into Latin script is used. If cities have established alternative names or English names, those names are presented in brackets. When necessary, the administrative subdivision to which a city belongs is appended to the city name to identify it unambiguously.

 

Footnotes

[1] Including Agalega, Rodrigues, and Saint Brandon.

[2] Including Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha.

[3] The regions Southern Asia and Central Asia are combined into South-Central Asia.

[4] Refers to Guernsey, and Jersey.

[5] Including Åland Islands.

[6] Refers to the Vatican City State.

[7] Including Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.

[8] Also referred to as United Kingdom.

[9] Also referred to as TFYR Macedonia.

[10] Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island.

 

Sources

Untied Nations Statistics Division, 2009.