Subregion

A subregion is a conceptual unit which derives from a larger region or continent and is usually based on location. Directional prefixes such as north or south are commonly used to define a subregion.

Here are a few examples of subregions sorted by continent:

America (Western Hemisphere)

• North America
• Geography
  • Canadian Arctic
  • Great Basin
  • Great Plains
  • Great Lakes
• Geology
  • Canadian Shield
  • North American craton
  • Slave craton
  • Superior craton
  • Wyoming craton
• Central America
  • Continental Central America
  • The Caribbean
  • The Greater Antilles
  • The Lesser Antilles
• South America
• Geography
  • Altiplano
  • Amazon Basin
  • Andes
  • Caribbean South America
  • Gran Chaco
  • Guianas
  • Pampa
  • Pantanal
  • Patagonia
• Economics (South American Community of Nations)
  • Andean Community
  • Mercosur

Europe

• Sorted by compass direction:
  • Western Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • Northern Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Central Europe
• Peninsulas:
  • Balkan Peninsula
  • Iberian Peninsula
  • Italian Peninsula
  • Scandinavian Peninsula
• Other groupings:
  • Baltic States
  • Benelux or the Low Countries
  • British Isles
  • Nordic States
  • Visegrad Group

Africa

• North Africa
  • Maghreb
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • West Africa (Bulge of Africa)
  • East Africa (Horn of Africa)
  • Central Africa
  • Southern Africa

Asia

• Central Asia
• West Asia (or Middle East)
  • Gulf States
  • Near East
  • Anatolia
  • Caucasus
  • Arabian Peninsula
  • Levant
• North Asia (see Siberia)
• East Asia
• South Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent
  • Bengal
  • Himalayan States
• Southeast Asia
  • Maritime
  • Mainland
  • Indochina

Oceania

• Australasia or Australia
• Melanesia
• Micronesia
• Polynesia

Note: See continent for definitions of large land masses such as Africa-Eurasia.

See also

• continent
• subcontinent
• supercontinent

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