The United Nations geoscheme for Asia is an internal tool created and used by the United Nations , maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) for the specific purpose of UN statistics. The scheme's subregions are presented here in alphabetical order. Its subregions may not coincide with other geographic categorization schemes.
6-590: Several institutions and research papers using classification schemes based on the UN geoscheme include Taiwan separately in their divisions of Eastern Asia. (1) The Unicode CLDR 's "Territory Containment (UN M.49)" includes Taiwan in its presentation of the UN M.49. (2) The public domain map data set Natural Earth has metadata in the fields named "region_un" and "subregion" for Taiwan. (3)The regional split recommended by Lloyd's of London for Eastern Asia (UN statistical divisions of Eastern Asia) contains Taiwan. (4) Based on
12-576: The Arabian Peninsula , covering the following geopolitical entities as a whole: Common Locale Data Repository The Common Locale Data Repository ( CLDR ) is a project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data in XML format for use in computer applications. CLDR contains locale-specific information that an operating system will typically provide to applications. CLDR is written in
18-600: The Locale Data Markup Language ( LDML ). Among the types of data that CLDR includes are the following: The information is currently used in International Components for Unicode , Apple 's macOS , LibreOffice , MediaWiki , and IBM 's AIX , among other applications and operating systems. CLDR overlaps somewhat with ISO/IEC 15897 ( POSIX locales). POSIX locale information can be derived from CLDR by using some of CLDR's conversion tools. CLDR
24-696: The United Nations statistical divisions, the APRICOT (conference) includes Taiwan in East Asia. (5) 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. (6) Taiwan is also included in the UN Geoscheme of Eastern Asia in one systematic review on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This subregion covers
30-447: 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. This subregion covers
36-528: The geographical regions of Indochinese Peninsula and Malay Archipelago , covering the following geopolitical entities as a whole: This subregion covers the geographical regions spanning from the Iranian Plateau till the Indian subcontinent , covering the following geopolitical entities as a whole: This subregion covers the geographical regions spanning from Anatolia , Caucasus , Levant , Mesopotamia till
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