The world is divided geographically, politically, economically, and culturally into continents, nations, trading blocs, language areas, etc. There are the six continents, Samuel P. Huntington’s ten “major civilizations” (wiki page), and the 192 U.N member states. Thinking travel wise, I will have been to all six inhabited continents after my work this summer in Africa. However, I feel like going to the Middle East will feel just as new, even though I’ve been to Asia before. I started to think about how I, in my mind, divide the globe. I came up with twenty regions. Some borders are based more on geography, others on culture or politics, but overall they are very lenient as I wouldn’t dare contribute to the arguments of where Western Europe turns into Eastern, whether Cuba and the Dominican Republic are more Caribbean or Latin, or if Pakistan is more part of the Middle East or the Asian Subcontinent. One region (Northern-South America?) I included mainly because without it I would only have 19 and an even 20 sounded nicer.
They are:
1. North America
2. Caribbean
3. Central America
4. Northern-South America
5. Southern-South America
6. Northern Europe (Scandinavia)
7. Western Europe
8. Eastern Europe
9. North Africa
10. West Africa
11. Southern Africa
12. East Africa
13. Middle East
14. Central Asia
15. Asian Subcontinent
16. East Asia
17. Southeast Asia
18. South Pacific
19. Australia-New Zealand
20. Antarctica
*Two others I considered (but, again, I liked twenty)- Southern Europe and Central Africa.
What would you add or take away??
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