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Geography

Regions of the World

Abkhazia
Abruzzi
Acarnania
Aceh
Adamawa Plateau
Adélie Coast
Adrar Temar
Adygea
Aetolia
Africa
Aga
Aguascalientes (state, Mexico)
Ahvenanmaa
Ain
Ajaria
Ákra Taínaron
Alania
Algarve
Alpes-Maritimes
Alsace
Alsace-Lorraine
Altay (republic)
Altay Territory
Altiplano
Amazonas (Colombia)
Amazonas (Peru)
Amazonas (state, Brazil)
Amazonas (Venezuela)
America
Anáhuac
Andalucía
Andhra Pradesh
Anglesey
Angus (unitary authority)
Anhui
Anjou (historic region, France)
Annam
Annapolis Valley
Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica
Antilles
Antioquia
Antrim
Aozou Strip
Apulia
Aquitaine
Arabia
Arabian Desert
Aragón (region, Spain)
Aram
Arcadia (region, Greece)
Arctic
Ardennes
Argonne
Argyllshire
Armagh (county, Northern Ireland)
Armenia (region)
Armorica
Arnhem Land
Artois
Arunāchal Pradesh
As Sudd
Ashanti (region, Ghana)
Asia
Asia Minor
‘Asīr
Assam
Asturias
Atacama Desert
Attica
Australasia
Australian Antarctic Territory
Australian Capital Territory
Avon (region, England)
Ayrshire

Badakhshān
Baden-Württemberg
Bahia
Baja California (peninsula)
Baja California (state, Mexico)
Baja California Sur
Bakassi Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Baltic States
Baluchistan (province, Pakistan)
Baluchistan (region)
Bāmiān
Banat
Banffshire
Bannu
Barbary Coast
Baroda
Barossa Valley
Bashkortostan
Basilicata
Basque Country
Bataan Peninsula
Bavaria
Baybay
Bedfordshire
Bekáa Valley
Benelux
Bengal (region)
Benin, Kingdom of
Berkshire
Bessarabia
Bihār
Bismarck Archipelago
Biu Plateau
Black Forest
Boeotia
Bohemia
Böhmerwald
Bohol
Bombay (state)
Boothia Peninsula
Bornholm
Brabant
Brabant, Duchy of
Brandenburg (region)
Breconshire
Bremen (state)
British Antarctic Territory
British East Africa
British India
British Malaya
British West Africa
Brittany (region)
Brunswick (historic region)
Buckinghamshire
Buganda
Bukovina
Bundelkhand
Bunyoro
Burgenland
Burgundy
Buryatia
Buteshire

Cabinda
Caernarvonshire
Caithness
Calabria
Caledonia
Cambrian Mountains
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
Cameroons
Campagna di Roma
Campania
Campeche (state, Mexico)
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Çankaya
Cap Vert
Cape Agulhas
Cape Chelyuskin
Cape Dezhnyov
Cape Horn
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Wrath
Cape York Peninsula
Capernaum
Cardiganshire
Carlow
Carmarthenshire
Carnatic, The
Carniola
Caspian Depression
Catalonia
Cauca Valley
Caucasus
Cavan
Central
Central America
Central Provinces and Berar
Central Valley
Champa, Kingdom of
Champagne (region)
Chechnya
Chemin des Dames
Cheshire
Chhattisgarh
Chiapas
Chihuahua (state, Mexico)
Chitrāl
Chukotka
Chuuk
Chuvashia
Cilicia
Circassia
Cisalpine Republic
Clackmannanshire
Clare (county, Ireland)
Cleveland (England)
Clwyd
Clydebank
Coahuila
Cochin China
Colima (state, Mexico)
Compiègne, Forest of
Connacht
Copperbelt
Cork (county, Ireland)
Cornwall (England)
Coromandel Coast
Côtes-du-Nord
Courland
Crimea
Culloden Moor
Cumberland (county, England)
Cumbria
Cundinamarca
Cyrenaica

E	East Anglia East Indies East Lothian East Prussia East Sussex Eastern Cape Eifel Elam Emilia-Romagna Enderby Land Epirus Esdraelon, Plain of Essex (England) Eurasia Europe Evenkia Eweland Exmoor Extremadura

F	Falkirk Fayyūm, Al Fens, The Fermanagh Fezzan Fife (region, Scotland) Finisterre, Cape Flanders (historic region) Flanders (region, Belgium) Flintshire Foix, Comté De Franconia Free State French Guiana French West Africa Friesland Frisia Friuli-Venezia Giulia Fujian

I	Iberia Iberian Peninsula Ifni Île-de-France Illyria Indochina Indonesia (region) Ingushetia Inini Inverness-Shire Ionia Iron Knob Istria

J	Jalisco Jammu and Kashmīr Jehol Jehoshaphat, Valley of Jewish Autonomous Oblast Jezreel, Vale of Jharkhand Jiangsu Jiangxi Jiaozhou Jilin (province, China) Johor Jos Plateau Judea Junggar Pendi Junín Jutland

O	Oaxaca (state, Mexico) Oberösterreich Offaly Ogadēn Okanagan Valley Old Castile Oldham Olduvai Gorge Orissa Overijssel Oxfordshire

Q	Qattara Depression Qinghai Qoraqalpoghiston Queensland Querétaro (state, Mexico) Quintana Roo Qyzylqum

Saamiland
Saarland
Saba’ (Sheba)
Sabah (Malaysian State)
Sahara
Sahel
Saint Charles, Cape
Saintonge
Sakha
San Ildefonso (commune, Spain)
San Luis Potosí (state, Mexico)
Santa Catarina
São Paulo (state)
Sarawak
Sardinia, Kingdom of
Savoy
Saxony
Scandinavia
Schaffhausen (canton)
Schaumburg-Lippe
Scheveningen
Schleswig-Holstein
Schwyz (canton)
Scottish Borders
Scythia
Seine (region)
Selangor
Selkirkshire
Shaanxi
Shan (state, Myanmar)
Shandong
Shanxi
Sharon, Plain of
Sherwood Forest
Shoa
Shropshire
Siberia
Sichuan
Sikkim
Silesia
Simpson Desert
Sinai Peninsula
Sinaloa
Sind
Skåne
Slave Coast
Slavonia
Sligo (county)
Solothurn (canton)
Somaliland
Somerset
Songhai (empire)
Sonora
Sonoran Desert
South America
South Arabia, Federation of
South Australia
South Glamorgan
South Ossetia
South Yorkshire
Southeast Asia
Spandau
Spartel, Cape
Spartivento, Cape
Sri Vijaya, Kingdom of
Staffordshire
Stavropol’ Territory
Steiermark
Stirlingshire
Strathclyde
Sturt Stony Desert
Sudan (region)
Sudetenland
Suez, Isthmus of
Suffolk (England)
Surrey (county, England)
Sussex (England)
Sutherlandshire
Swabia
Syrian Desert

U	Udmurtia Ulster Umbria Unterwalden Uri Ust’-Orda Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal

V	Valais Valencia (region, Spain) Valle d’Aosta Vaud Veneto Venezia Giulia Veracruz (state, Mexico) Victoria Land Victoria (state, Australia) Vijayanagar Vinland Vojvodina Vorarlberg

X	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Y	Yamalia Yap Yorkshire Yucatán (peninsula) Yucatán (state, Mexico) Yunnan

Z	Zacatecas (state, Mexico) Zeeland Zhejiang Zhenla, Kingdom of Zion (Jerusalem) Zug (canton)

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