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Groups of countries or regions are often referred to by a single term (word, phrase, ... APAC: Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum ... Listofcountrygroupings FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Contents 1A 2B 3C 4D 5E 6F 7G 8I 9L 10M 11N 12O 13P 14R 15S 16T 17U 18V 19Seealso 20References Thisisadynamiclistandmayneverbeabletosatisfyparticularstandardsforcompleteness.Youcanhelpbyaddingmissingitemswithreliablesources. Thisarticleneedsadditionalcitationsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingcitationstoreliablesources.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.Findsources: "Listofcountrygroupings" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(October2017)(Learnhowandwhentoremovethistemplatemessage) Groupsofcountriesorregionsareoftenreferredtobyasingleterm(word,phrase,orabbreviation).Theoriginsofsuchtermsincludepoliticalalliances,intergovernmentalorganizations,businessmarketareas,andmerecolloquialism. A[edit] AMEA:Asia,MiddleEastandAfrica America(AMERorAMERS):Usagevaries;itmayrefertojusttheUnitedStatesofAmerica,orjustNorthAmerica,orallofNorthandSouthAmericacombined,orsomeothercombination. AMS:Andorra,Monaco,SanMarino[1] ANZ:AustraliaandNewZealand[2] ANZIT:Australia-NewZealand-ItalyTrilateralrelations ANZUK:trilateralrelationsbetweenAustralia,NewZealandandtheUnitedKingdom. APAC:Asia-Pacific Asia-PacificEconomicCooperation(APEC)isaforumfor21stPacificRimmembereconomiesthatpromotesfreetradethroughouttheAsia-Pacificregion APJ:AsiaPacificandJapan[3] APMA:AsiaPacific,MiddleEastandAfrica APSG:AsiaPacificandSingapore AfricanUnion(AU)isacontinentalunionconsistingofallfifty-fivecountriesontheAfricancontinent. ArabLeague:aregionalorganizationofArabcountries ArraiolosGroupisaninformalmeetingofpresidentsofparliamentaryandsemi-presidentialEuropeanUnionmemberstates. ASEAN:theAssociationofSoutheastAsianNations,aregionalorganisationcomprisingtenSoutheastAsianstates ASEAN+3:theASEANcountries,plusChina,Japan,andtheRepublicofKorea(SouthKorea).[4] ASEAN+5:theASEANcountrieswithJapan,India,Australia,SouthKoreaandNewZealand.ASEAN+6alongwithChina.[5][6][7][8] FourAsianTigers:alsocalled"FourAsianDragons"or"FourLittleDragons",aretheeconomiesofHongKong,Singapore,SouthKoreaandTaiwan. AssemblyofEuropeanRegions AssociationofCaribbeanStates AUKUS:Australia,theUnitedKingdomandtheUnitedStates B[edit] Balkanstates:Albania,BosniaandHerzegovina,Bulgaria,Croatia,Greece,Kosovo,Montenegro,NorthMacedonia,Serbia,andTurkey;RomaniaandSloveniaaresometimesincluded. Baltics,threesovereignstatesinNorthernEuropeontheeasterncoastoftheBalticSea:Estonia,Latvia,andLithuania. BASICcountries,fourlargenewlyindustrializedcountries,Brazil,SouthAfrica,India,China,toactjointlyonclimatechangeandemissionsreduction BeneluxUnionisapolitico-economicunionofthreeneighbouringstatesinwesternEurope:Belgium,theNetherlands,andLuxembourg. BigFour(WesternEurope)referstoFrance,Germany,ItalyandtheUnitedKingdom.ThesecountriesareconsideredmajorEuropeanpowersandtheyaretheWesternEuropeancountriesindividuallyrepresentedasfullmembersoftheG7,theG8,theG-10andtheG20.ThisalsohasanimpactontheEurovisionSongContest,whenthesecountriesaddedtoSpain,areturnedtheBIG5. BIMSTEC,agroupofcountriesinSouthAsiaandSouthEastAsiaaroundtheBayofBengaltopromotetechnologicalandeconomicco-operation,whichincludesBangladesh,Bhutan,India,Myanmar,Nepal,SriLanka,andThailand. BRIC:Brazil,Russia,India,andChina,whicharealldeemedtobeatasimilarstageofnewlyadvancedeconomicdevelopment BRICS:Brazil,Russia,India,ChinaandSouthAfrica BSEC,theOrganizationoftheBlackSeaEconomicCooperation,isaregionalorganizationfocusingonmultilateralpoliticalandeconomicinitiativesaimedatfosteringcooperationintheBlackSearegion. C[edit] CALA:CentralAmericaandLatinAmerica,ortheCaribbeanandLatinAmerica CAME:CentralAsiaandtheMiddleEast CANZUK,thecurrentpersonalunionandproposedinternationalorganizationcomposedofCanada,Australia,NewZealand,andtheUnitedKingdom. CARICOM,CaribbeanCommunity,anorganizationoffifteenCaribbeannationsanddependencies CARIFTA:CaribbeanFreeTradeAssociation CEFTA,theCentralEuropeanFreeTradeAgreement,currentmembers:Montenegro,Serbia,Albania,Bosnia-Herzegovina,Moldova,NorthMacedoniaandUNMIKfortheterritoryofKosovo. CentralAmericanIntegrationSystem CIVETS,sixemergingmarketscountries,Colombia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Egypt,Turkey,andSouthAfrica,adiverseanddynamiceconomyandayoung,growingpopulation CLMV,Cambodia,Laos,MyanmarandVietnaminsoutheastAsia,membersofASEAN Comecon,formallytheCouncilofMutualEconomicAssistance,consistedofsocialisteconomieswithintheCommunistworld:theSovietUnion,Bulgaria,Cuba,Czechoslovakia,EastGermany,Hungary,Mongolia,Poland,Romania,andVietnam.Theorganizationexistedfrom1949to1991duringtheColdWar. CommunityforDemocracyandRightsofNations,agroupofdisputedstatesforgingcloserpoliticalties.MembersincludeAbkhazia,SouthOssetia,TransnistriaandtheRepublicofArtsakh. CommonwealthofIndependentStates(CIS),politicalalliancebetweentheformerSovietRepublicsofRussia,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Moldova,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan. CommonwealthofNations,fifty-threememberstatesthataremostlyformerterritoriesoftheBritishEmpire. CommunityofPortugueseLanguageCountries CollectiveSecurityTreatyOrganization,amilitaryalliancebetweenRussia,Armenia,Belarus,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,TajikistanandobservermembersSerbiaandAfghanistan. CouncilofEurope,politicalallianceof47Europeancountries. CEE:CentralandEasternEurope[9] CUSA:CanadaandtheUnitedStates D[edit] DevelopmentAssistanceCommittee(DAC),todiscussissuessurroundingaid,developmentandpovertyreductionindevelopingcountries,theworld'smajordonorcountries,Australia,EuropeanUnion,Iceland,NewZealand,SouthKorea,Austria,Finland,Ireland,Norway,Spain,Belgium,France,Italy,Poland,Sweden,Canada,Germany,Japan,Portugal,Switzerland,CzechRepublic,Greece,Luxembourg,Slovakia,UnitedKingdom,Denmark,Hungary,Netherlands,Slovenia,andUnitedStates. DACH:[10]MajorityGerman-speakingstatesofCentralEurope(excludesthePrincipalityofLiechtenstein).UtilisestheGermannameofGermanyandtheLatinnamesofAustriaandSwitzerland.Germany(Deutschland),Austria(Austria)andSwitzerland(ConfoederatioHelvetica),withDachmeaning"roof"inGerman.ThetermissometimesextendedtoD-A-CH-Li,DACHL,orDACH+toincludeLiechtenstein.AnotherversionisDACHS(withDachsmeaning"badger"inGerman)withtheinclusionoftheGerman-speakingregionofSouthTyrolinItaly.[11] E[edit] EastAfricanCommunity(EAC)isanintergovernmentalorganisationcomposedofsixcountriesintheAfricanGreatLakesregionineasternAfrica:Burundi,Kenya,Rwanda,SouthSudan,Tanzania,andUganda. EasternPartnership,agroupofformersovietrepublicsforgingclosereconomicandpoliticaltieswiththeEuropeanUnion.MembersincludeArmenia,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Georgia,Moldova,andUkraine. EconomicCooperationOrganization(ECO),Afghanistan,Azerbaijan,Iran,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Pakistan,Tajikistan,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan,apoliticalandeconomicorganization,aplatformtodiscusswaystoimprovedevelopmentandpromotetradeandinvestmentopportunities,theobjectiveistoestablishasinglemarketforgoodsandservices. EEA:TheEuropeanEconomicArea,whichcontainstheEuropeanUnioncountries,plusNorway,IcelandandLiechtenstein EAEU:EurasianEconomicUnion,aneconomicunionofBelarus,Kazakhstan,Russia,Armenia,KyrgyzstanandobservermembersMoldova,UzbekistanandCuba. EU,TheEuropeanUnion,apoliticalandeconomicunionof27memberstatesthatarelocatedprimarilyinEurope. EU+EEA+CH:TheEuropeanUnion+theEuropeanEconomicArea+Switzerland,signvisibleveryoftenshownontheSchengenAreaairports EuronestParliamentaryAssembly:InterparliamentaryforumbetweentheEUandEasternPartnershipmemberstates. EFTA:EuropeanFreeTradeAssociation EMEA:Europe,theMiddleEastandAfrica EMEAI:Europe,theMiddleEast,AfricaandIndia ENWA:EuropeandNorthwestAsia F[edit] FiveEyes(FVEY),isananglophoneintelligencealliancecomprisingAustralia,Canada,NewZealand,theUnitedKingdomandtheUnitedStates. FederationofEuro-AsianStockExchanges(FEAS):Cooperationofstock-exchangesfromEasternEuropeandWestAsia. FourAsianTigers,economiesofHongKong,Singapore,SouthKorea,Taiwan,underwentrapidindustrializationandmaintainedexceptionallyhighgrowthrates,nowdevelopedintoadvancedandhigh-incomeeconomies. FLAME:France-LatinAmericarelationship Francamérique:FrenchOverseasregionandcollectivitiesintheAmericas FRES:FranceandSpain(inSpanishasEspaña) FRIT:FranceandItaly FRITES:France,ItalyandSpain(inSpanishasEspaña) G[edit] G4nations:Brazil,Germany,India,andJapan,fourcountrieswhichsupporteachother'sbidsforpermanentseatsontheUnitedNationsSecurityCouncil. GlobalGovernanceGroup(G3),agroupof30smalltomediummembercountrieswhichcollectivelyprovidesrepresentationandinputtotheG20. GroupofTwo(G2):UnitedStatesandChina(informal)focusingonSino-Americanrelations.Perbeingconsideredtwoofthemostinfluentialandpowerfulcountriesintheworld EU'sG6-France,Germany,Italy,Poland,Spain,andtheUnitedKingdom-countrieswithlargestpopulationsandthusthemajorityofvotesintheCounciloftheEuropeanUnion GroupofSeven(G7):Canada,France,Germany,Italy,Japan,theUnitedKingdom,theUnitedStates,thesevenmajoradvancedeconomiesasreportedbytheInternationalMonetaryFund. G8+5,theG8nations,plusthefiveleadingemergingeconomies(Brazil,China,India,Mexico,andSouthAfrica). G20,orGroupofTwenty,twentymajoreconomiescomprisingArgentina,Australia,Brazil,Canada,China,EuropeanUnion,France,Germany,India,Indonesia,Italy,Japan,SouthKorea,Mexico,Russia,SaudiArabia,SouthAfrica,Turkey,UnitedKingdom,UnitedStates,forstudying,reviewing,andpromotinghigh-leveldiscussionofpolicyissuespertainingtothepromotionofinternationalfinancialstability. Groupof77(G77),aloosecoalitionofdevelopingnationsdesignedtopromoteitsmembers'collectiveeconomicinterestsandcreateanenhancedjointnegotiatingcapacityintheUnitedNations. GUAMOrganizationforDemocracyandEconomicDevelopment:Georgia,Ukraine,Azerbaijan,andMoldova GCC(GulfCooperationCouncil):Bahrain,Kuwait,Oman,Qatar,SaudiArabia,andtheUAE.AregionalintergovernmentalpoliticalandeconomicunionconsistingofallArabstatesofthePersianGulf,exceptforIraq. GreaterChina:MainlandChina,HongKong,Macau,andTaiwan GAS:Germany,Austria,andSwitzerland(uncommon,DACHismorewidelyused) I[edit] IBSADialogueForum:India,Brazil,SouthAfrica,aninternationaltripartitegroupingforpromotinginternationalcooperationamongthesecountries. IMEA:India,MiddleEastandAfrica InnerSix-foundingmemberstatesoftheEuropeanCommunities. InternationalSolarAlliance,theInternationalSolarAlliance(ISA),isanallianceofmorethan122countriesinitiatedbyIndia,andFrancemostofthembeingsunshinecountries,whichlieeithercompletelyorpartlybetweentheTropicofCancerandtheTropicofCapricorn. InterparliamentaryAssemblyonOrthodoxy,aninter-parliamentaryinstitutionof21nationalparliamentsrepresentingOrthodoxChristians. L[edit] LaFrancophonie:aninternationalorganizationrepresentingcountriesandregionswhereFrenchisalinguafrancaorcustomarylanguage LATAM:LatinAmerica LATCAR:LatinAmericaandCaribbean[12] Levant:Cyprus,Israel,Jordan,Lebanon,Palestine,Syria M[edit] Mercosur(SouthernCommonMarket),atradeblocofArgentina,Brazil,Paraguay,Uruguay,topromotefreetradeandthefluidmovementofgoods,people,andcurrency. MIKTA,aninformalpartnershipbetweenMexico,Indonesia,RepublicofKorea(SouthKorea),Turkey,Australia,tosupporteffectiveglobalgovernance. MINT,theeconomiesofMexico,Indonesia,Nigeria,andTurkey. MART:MiddleEast,Africa,RussiaandTurkey MEA:MiddleEastandAfrica[citationneeded] MEASEA :MiddleEast,AfricaandSouthEastAsia[citationneeded] MEATI:MiddleEast,Africa,Turkey&India[13] MEESA:MiddleEast,EasternandSouthernAfrica[citationneeded] MEISA:MiddleEast,IndianSubcontinentandAfrica[14] MENA:MiddleEastandNorthAfrica MEP:MiddleEastandPakistan[15] META:MiddleEast,TurkeyandAfrica[citationneeded] N[edit] NAC:NorthAmericaandtheCaribbean NAM:Non-AlignedMovement NATO:NorthAtlantictreatyorganisation;NATOisformalgroupcountrytodefenditselffromtheSovietUnion. NAFTA:NorthAmericanFreeTradeAgreement,isanagreementsignedbyCanada,Mexico,andtheUnitedStates,creatingatrilateraltradeblocinNorthAmerica. NextEleven(N11)-Bangladesh,Egypt,Indonesia,Iran,Mexico,Nigeria,Pakistan,thePhilippines,Turkey,SouthKorea,andVietnam–identifiedashavingahighpotentialofbecoming,alongwiththeBRICScountries,amongtheworld'slargesteconomiesinthe21stcentury. NACE:NorthAtlanticandCentralEurope NALA:NorthAmericaandLatinAmerica NORAMorNAorNAMER:NorthAmericanRegion(Canada,UnitedStates,andMexico) Nordics:inadditiontotheScandinaviancountriesDenmark,NorwayandSweden,alsoFinlandandIcelandareincluded. NWA:NorthwestAsia O[edit] OIC,theOrganisationofIslamicCooperation,isaninternationalorganizationfoundedin1969,consistingof57memberstates,withacollectivepopulationofover1.8billionasof2015with54countriesbeingMuslim-majoritycountries. OAS,theOrganizationofAmericanStates,isacontinentalorganizationofthe35independentnationswithinNorth,CentralandSouthAmerica OECD,theOrganisationforEconomicCo-operationandDevelopment,tostimulateeconomicprogressandworldtrade,countriescommittedtodemocracyandthemarketeconomy,mostOECDmembersarehigh-incomeeconomieswithaveryhighHumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)andareregardedasdevelopedcountries. OECS,agroupofislandnationslocatedintheEasternCaribbean. OIAS,theOrganizationofIbero-AmericanStates,anorganizationofPortugueseandSpanishSpeakingNationsoftheAmericas,Africa,andEurope. OPEC,theOrganizationofthePetroleumExportingCountries,anorganizatioofthirteencountriesaccountingforanestimated42percentofglobaloilproductionand73percentoftheworld'sprovenoilreserves.(OPEC+:theOPECcountriesplusRussia) P[edit] P5,permanentmembersoftheUnitedNationsSecurityCouncil:China,France,Russia,theUnitedKingdom,andtheUnitedStates. PacificAlliance,atradeblocofstatesthatborderthePacificOcean.PermanentmembersincludeChile,Colombia,Mexico,andPeru. ThePacificPumas,apoliticalandeconomicgroupingofcountriesalongLatinAmerica'sPacificcoastthatincludesChile,Colombia,MexicoandPeru.ThetermreferencesthefourlargerPacificLatinAmericanemergingmarketsthatsharecommontrendsofpositivegrowth,stablemacroeconomicfoundations,improvedgovernanceandanopennesstoglobalintegration. PALOP,thePortuguese-speakingAfricancountries,alsoknownasLusophoneAfricathatincludes:Angola,CapeVerde,Guinea-Bissau,Mozambique,SãoToméandPríncipeandEquatorialGuinea. ParisClub,agroupofmajorcreditorcountrieswhoseofficialsmeettentimesayearinthecityofParis,withtheintenttofindcoordinatedandsustainablesolutionstothepaymentdifficultiesexperiencedbydebtorcountries. PIGS,alsoPIIGS,theeconomiesofthecountriesofPortugal,Greece,Spain,Italyand/orIreland. R[edit] RioGroup,wasaninternationalorganizationofLatinAmericanandsomeCaribbeanstatesthatwassucceededin2010bytheCommunityofLatinAmericanandCaribbeanStates. ROME:RestofMiddleEast S[edit] SAARC,ageopoliticalunionofnationsinSouthAsia SCA:SouthandCentralAmerica Scandinavia:Denmark,NorwayandSweden(insomedefinitions,FinlandisincludedduetostronghistoricaltiestoSweden,andIcelandissometimesincludedduetostronghistoricaltiestoDenmarkandNorway). ShanghaiCooperationOrganisation(SCO),anEurasianpolitical,economic,andsecurityorganisationcomprising:China,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Tajikistan,Uzbekistan,IndiaandPakistan. SaarLorLux:Saarland,Lorraine,Luxembourg SEA:South-EastAsia SouthernCone(ConoSur):Argentina,Chile,Paraguay,UruguayandSouthernBrazil. SouthAsia:Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Maldives,Nepal,India,PakistanandSriLanka SSA:Sub-SaharanAfrica T[edit] TigerCubEconomies:agroupingoffivenewlyindustrializedemergingmarketsandmiddlepowersinSoutheastAsia:Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines,Thailand,andVietnam TurkicCouncil:aninternationalorganizationcomprisingsomeoftheTurkiccountries(Turkey,Azerbaijan,Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan,KyrgyzstanandHungary). U[edit] UnitedKingdom(UK),acountryinWesternEuropeconsistingofEngland,Scotland,Wales,andNorthernIreland. UnitedNations(UN),anintergovernmentalorganizationtopromoteinternationalco-operation,193memberstates. UnionStateofEurasia(USE),aSovereignstatemadeupofRussiaandBelarus. USAN:UnionofSouthAmericanNations. V[edit] V4,VisegrádGroup,anallianceoffourCentralEuropeanStates:theCzechRepublic,Hungary,Poland,andSlovakia. VISTA(Vietnam,Indonesia,SouthAfrica,Turkey,andArgentina)isanemergingmarketsgroupingproposedin2006byBRICsEconomicResearchInstituteofJapan. 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