UNlocations


United Nations table of locations, including regions, as available in 2008.


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Data from the United Nation's World Population Prospects 2008

Hana Sevcikova

wpp2008

World Population Prospects 2008

UNlocations function

A data frame with one observations per country or region. It contains the following seven variables:
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    <dt><code>name</code></dt><dd>Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see  <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm">http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm</a> and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see <a href="http://unterm.un.org">http://unterm.un.org</a>).</dd> <dt><code>country_code</code></dt><dd>Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric</a>.</dd> <dt><code>reg_code</code></dt><dd>Code of the regions.</dd> <dt><code>reg_name</code></dt><dd>Name of the regions.</dd> <dt><code>area_code</code></dt><dd>Area code.</dd> <dt><code>area_name</code></dt><dd>Area names, such as <code>Africa</code>, <code>Asia</code>, <code>Europe</code> <code>Latin America and the Caribbean</code>, <code>Northern America</code>, <code>Oceania</code>, <code>World</code>.</dd> <dt><code>location_type</code></dt><dd>Code giving the type of the observation (0=World, 2=Major Area, 3=Region, 4=Country/Area, 5=Development group, 12=Special groupings).</dd> </dl> 

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Data provided by the United Nations Population Division

UNlocations: United Nations Table of Locations

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