Area names, such as Africa, Asia, EuropeLatin 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. Other numbers are allowed and they can be used for aggregation, see below.
Optional columns that can be used for aggregations. To aggregate a region with country_code=x, get the value of its location_type, say y. Then look for the column agcode_y and locate all records with agcode_y=x that have location_type=4.
Source
Data provided by the United Nations Population Division.
The designations employed in this dataset do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.