World News Connection - Regional areas

Region	Sub-Region	Countries included
Africa	Central	Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Sudan, and Uganda
	East	Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia, and Tanzania
	North	Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Western Sahara
	Southern	Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Also includes the islands around Southern Africa
	West	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cap Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo
Americas	Caribbean	Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and all the other Caribbean islands
	Central	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama
	North	Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, United States
	South	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Also includes the western South Atlantic islands
	Antarctica	Antarctica
Asia	East	China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan
	South	Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Also includes the Indian Ocean islands not near Africa
	Southeast	Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Includes Christmas and Cocos islands
Eurasia	Caucasus	Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
	Central	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
	Russia	Russia
Europe	Balkans	Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
	Central	Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Ukraine
	North	Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom,. Also includes the North Atlantic islands
	South	Andorra, Cyprus, France, Gibraltar, Holy See (Vatican City), Italy, Malta, Monaco, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, and Turkey. Also includes the Azores and Canary Islands
Near East & South Asia		Bahrain, Gaza Strip, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank, and Yemen
Oceania		Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and all the other Pacific Ocean islands