UNlocations: United Nations Table of Locations

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

United Nations table of locations, including regions, as available in 2012.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with one observations per country or region. It contains the following seven variables:

name

Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see http://unterm.un.org).

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

reg_code

Code of the regions.

reg_name

Name of the regions.

area_code

Area code.

area_name

Area names, such as Africa, Asia, Europe Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Oceania, World.

location_type

Code giving the type of the observation (0=World, 2=Major Area, 3=Region, 4=Country/Area, 5=Development group, 12=Special groupings).

Source

Data provided by the United Nations Population Division

Examples

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