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1 PEW RESEARCH CENTER Countries by Regional Classification Mexico South Asia Tokelau Mexico Afghanistan Tonga Bangladesh Truk East and Southeast Asia Bhutan Tuvalu Brunei British Indian Ocean Territory U.S. Pacific Trust Territories Cambodia India Vanuatu China1 Maldives Wallis Futuna East Timor Nepal Yap Indonesia Pakistan Other Pacific Islands Japan Sri Lanka Korea Europe Laos Oceania Albania Malaysia Australia Andorra Myanmar Canton and Enderbury Armenia North Korea Cook Islands Austria Papua New Guinea Fiji Azores Islands Philippines French Polynesia Belarus Singapore Kiribati Belgium South Korea Kosrae Bosnia and Herzegovina Thailand Marshall Islands Bulgaria Vietnam Micronesia Canary Islands Nauru Croatia Central Asia New Caledonia Cyprus Azerbaijan New Zealand Czech Republic Kazakhstan Niue Czechoslovakia Kyrgyzstan Norfolk Islands Denmark Tajikistan Palau Estonia Turkmenistan Pitcairn Island Faroe Islands Uzbekistan Pohnpei Finland Samoa France Solomon Islands Georgia 1 Includes Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mongolia www.pewresearch.org 2 PEW RESEARCH CENTER Germany Yugoslavia Nicaragua Gibraltar Panama Greece Canada and - Hungary Other North America South America Iceland Bermuda Argentina Ireland Canada Bolivia Italy Greenland Brazil Kosovo St. Pierre and Miquelon Chile Latvia Colombia Liechtenstein Caribbean Ecuador Lithuania Anguilla Falkland Islands Luxembourg Antigua & Barbuda French Guiana Macedonia Bahamas Guyana Madeira Islands Barbados Paraguay Malta British Virgin Islands Peru Moldova Cayman Isles Suriname Monaco Cuba Uruguay Montenegro Dominica Venezuela Netherlands Dominican Republic Norway Grenada Middle East-North Africa Poland Haiti Algeria Portugal Jamaica Bahrain Romania Montserrat Egypt Russia St. Vincent & the Grenadines Iran San Marino Trinidad & Tobago Iraq Serbia Turks and Caicos Israel/Palestine Slovakia Other Caribbean Jordan Slovenia Other West Indies Kuwait Spain Lebanon Sweden Central America Libya Switzerland Belize Morocco Ukraine Costa Rica Oman United Kingdom El Salvador Qatar Vatican City Guatemala Saudi Arabia Wales Honduras www.pewresearch.org 3 PEW RESEARCH CENTER Sudan Malawi Syria Mali Tunisia Mauritania Turkey Mauritius United Arab Emirates Mayotte Western Sahara Mozambique Yemen Namibia Niger Sub-Saharan Africa Nigeria Angola Republic of Congo Benin Reunion Botswana Rwanda Burkina Faso Sao Tome and Principe Burundi Seychelles Cameroon Sierra Leone Cape Verde Somalia Central African Republic South Africa Chad South Sudan Comoros St. Helena Dem. Rep. of the Congo Swaziland Djibouti Tanzania Equatorial Guinea Togo Eritrea Uganda Ethiopia Zambia Europa Zimbabwe Gabon Other Sub-Saharan Africa Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar www.pewresearch.org .

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Judging the East Timor Dispute: Self-Determination at the International Court of Justice, 17 Hastings Int'l & Comp
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