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the region titles are ... unconventional. greece, clearly in the eastern mediterraneon, is not listed, while iran on the indian ocean is. this group is normally called mena, roughly.

likewise, the category called southeast asia contains countries normally considered to be south asian - like india - and omits the larger part of southeast asia.

the creation of “western pacific”, grouping australia-new zealand, east asia, and the larger part of southeast asia, deserves credit surely since it is far more useful than the neocolonialist category of oceania, which mostly serves to allow europeans to swamp pacific islanders with statistics from australia




From the Readme:

> The countries have been grouped according to regions defined by the World Health Organization.

And, yeah, they’re a bit weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_regions




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