UN M.49 is a standard for area codes used by the United Nations for
statistical purposes. Each area code is a 3-digit number which can
refer to a wide variety of geographical, political, or economic
regions, like a continent, a country, or a specific group of
developing countries.
UN_M.49_Countries
contains the codes for countries and areas as
a character frame with variables Code
, Name
and
ISO_Alpha_3
giving the 3-letter UN M.49 code and name and the
respective alpha-3 ISO 3166 code.
UN_M.49_Regions
contains the codes for the composition of macro
geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and
selected economic and other groupings as a data frame with the
character variables Code
, Name
, Parent
and
Children
giving the 3-letter UN M.49 code, name, the code of
the parent area and the codes of children areas separated by ,
, respectively, and variable Type
, a factor with levels
"Region"
or "Grouping".