The World

Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

United States

1.1 Northwest

Alaska | Washington | Oregon | Idaho |Montana

1.2 Mid-Pacific

California | Hawaii | American Samoa (U.S. Territory) | Guam (U.S. Territory) | Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. Territory)

1.5 Great Plains

1.6 Great Lakes

1.7 Northeast

1.8 Mid-Atlantic

1.9 South Central

1.10 Southeast

Canada & North

2.1 Eastern Canada

New Brunswick | Newfoundland and Labrador | Nova Scotia | Prince Edward Island | Quebec

2.2 Western Canada

Ontario | Manitoba | Saskatchewan | Alberta | British Columbia

Yukon (territory of Canada) | Northwest Territories (territory of Canada) | Nunavut (territory of Canada)
Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat (autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (overseas collectivity of France)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Photo: iso.500px.com)

Latin America

3.1 Andes Mountains

Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador

3.2 Mexico

Northern Mexico, Greater Bajio Mexico, Central Mexico, Pacific Coast Mexico, and Yucatán Peninsula Mexico

3.3 Greater Antilles

Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Haiti

3.4 Brazil

North Brazil, Northeast Brazil, Central-West Brazil, Southeast Brazil, and South Brazil

3.5 Southern Cone

Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

3.6 Central America

Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama

3.7 Lesser Antilles

Barbados, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica, and Trinidad and Tobago

3.8 British Atlantic

Bermuda, Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, and Montserrat in the North Atlantic Ocean, with Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean, plus Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands at the edge of the Southern Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean (all territories of the UK)

3.9 French & Dutch Caribbean

Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, and Saint Martin (all territories of France)
Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (all territories of the Netherlands)

3.10 Guiana Highlands

Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guinea (France)

Eiffel Tower, Paris (Photo: parisperfect.com)

Europe

4.1 British Isles

United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) and Ireland

4.2. France & Benelux

France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Monaco

4.3. Italian Peninsula

Italy, Vatican City, and San Marino

4.4. Iberian Peninsula

Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar (UK)

4.5. Greek Peninsula

Greece, Malta, Albania, Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, and Akrotiri and Dhekelia (UK)

4.6. Black Sea Eurasia

Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus

4.7 Germany & Alps

Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein

4.8 Nordic Europe

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland

4.9 Balkans

Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova

4.10 Central Europe

Hungary, Czechia (Czech Republic), Slovakia, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Taj Mahal (Photo: gskpulsevolunteers.com)

Asia

5.1 Far East Asia

Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Philippines

5.2 South Asia

India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka

5.3 East Asia

China (including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau), Taiwan, and Mongolia

5.4 Southeast Asia

Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Laos

5.5 East Indies

Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Timor-Leste

5.6 Russia

Russian Federation

5.7 Levant

Israel (including Palestine), Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria

5.8 Central Asia

Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan

5.9 Arabian Peninsula

Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq

5.10 Middle Asia

Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

The Pyramids of Giza (Photo: travelplanet.in)

Africa

6.1 Maghreb

Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, and Western Sahara (including Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

6.2 Northeast Africa

Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, and South Sudan

6.3 Horn of Africa

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia (including Somaliland)

6.4 East Africa

Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi

6.5 Zambezi Basin

Zambia, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe

6.6 Southern Africa

South Africa, Namibia, Eswatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, and Angola

6.7 Indian Ocean Africa

Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion (France), Mayotte (France), French Southern and Antarctic Lands (France– no permanent population), Maldives, and British Indian Ocean Territory/Chagos Archipelago (UK – currently without a permanent population)

6.8 Francophone Equatorial Africa

Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, and Chad

6.9 Western Sahel

Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Niger, and Burkina Faso

6.10 Guinea Coast

Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau

Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge (Photo: adventure2oz.wordpress.com)

Australasia

7.1 Australia

New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, and territories

7.2 Rapa Nui/Easter Island

Insular Chile/The Sporadic Islands (Chile)

7.3 American Samoa

American Samoa (U.S.)

7.4 French Pacific

French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna in Polynesia; plus New Caledonia in Melanesia and Clipperton Island (no permanent population) off the coast of Mexico (all territories of France)

7.5 New Zealand (Aotearoa)

New Zealand (Aotearoa), Cook Islands (state in free association with NZ), Niue (state in free association with NZ), Tokelau (NZ dependent territory), and Chatham Islands (NZ special territorial authority), plus New Zealand’s Outlying Islands (Kermadec Islands, Three Kings Islands, and Subantarctic Islands – none with a permanent population)

7.6 Polynesian Countries

Tonga, Samoa, and Tuvalu, plus Kiribati and Nauru (both shared with Micronesia)

7.7 Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands (UK)

7.8 Melanesia

Vanuatu, Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea

7.9 Micronesia

Guam and Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. Territories), plus Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands (all three of these are countries in free association with the United States)

7.10 Antarctica

Claims: Adélie Land (France), Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, British Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Queen Maud Land (Norway), and the Ross Dependency (New Zealand), plus Marie Byrd Land, which is unclaimed (none have a permanent population)