Last data update: 2014.03.03
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R: United Nations Table of Locations
UNlocations | R Documentation |
United Nations Table of Locations
Description
United Nations table of locations, including regions, as available in 2008.
Usage
data(UNlocations)
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
data(UNlocations)
Results
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