World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision

Africa
Eastern Africa	Middle Africa	Northern Africa	Western Africa

Burundi	Angola	Algeria	Benin
Comoros	Cameroon	Egypt	Burkina Faso
Djibouti	Central African Republic	Libya	Cape Verde
Eritrea	Chad	Morocco	Côte d’Ivoire
Ethiopia	Congo	Sudan	Gambia
Kenya	Democratic Republic of the	Tunisia	Ghana
Madagascar	Congo	Western Sahara	Guinea
Malawi	Equatorial Guinea		Guinea-Bissau
Mauritius[1]	Gabon	Southern Africa	Liberia
Mayotte	São Tomé and Príncipe		Mali
Mozambique		Botswana	Mauritania
Réunion		Lesotho	Niger
Rwanda		Namibia	Nigeria
Seychelles*		South Africa	Saint Helena[2]*
Somalia		Swaziland	Senegal
South Sudan			Sierra Leone
Uganda			Togo
United Republic of Tanzania[3]
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Asia
Eastern Asia[4]	South-Central Asia[5]	South-Eastern Asia	Western Asia

China[6]	Central Asia	Brunei Darussalam	Armenia
China, Hong Kong SAR[7]		Cambodia	Azerbaijan[8]
China, Macao SAR [9]	Kazakhstan	Indonesia	Bahrain
Democratic People’s	Kyrgyzstan	Lao People’s Democratic	Cyprus[10]
Republic of Korea	Tajikistan	Republic	Georgia[11]
Japan	Turkmenistan	Malaysia[12]	Iraq
Mongolia	Uzbekistan	Myanmar	Israel
Republic of Korea		Philippines	Jordan
	Southern Asia	Singapore	Kuwait
		Thailand	Lebanon
	Afghanistan	Timor-Leste	Occupied Palestinian
	Bangladesh	Viet Nam	Territory[13]
	Bhutan		Oman
	India		Qatar
	Iran (Islamic Republic of)		Saudi Arabia
	Maldives[14]		Syrian Arab Republic
	Nepal		Turkey
	Pakistan		United Arab Emirates
	Sri Lanka		Yemen

Europe
Eastern Europe	Northern Europe	Southern Europe	Western Europe

Belarus	Channel Islands[15]	Albania	Austria
Bulgaria	Denmark	Andorra*	Belgium
Czech Republic	Estonia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	France
Hungary	Faeroe Islands*	Croatia	Germany
Poland	Finland[16]	Gibraltar*	Liechtenstein*
Republic of Moldova	Iceland	Greece	Luxembourg
Romania	Ireland	Holy See[17]*	Monaco*
Russian Federation	Isle of Man*	Italy	Netherlands
Slovakia	Latvia	Malta	Switzerland
Ukraine	Lithuania	Montenegro
	Norway[18]	Portugal
	Sweden	San Marino*
	United Kingdom of Great	Serbia[19]
	Britain and Northern	Slovenia
	Ireland[20]	Spain[21]
		The former Yugoslav
		Republic of Macedonia[22]

Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean	Central America	South America

Anguilla*	Belize	Argentina
Antigua and Barbuda*	Costa Rica	Bolivia
Aruba	El Salvador	Brazil
Bahamas	Guatemala	Chile
Barbados	Honduras	Colombia
British Virgin Islands*	Mexico	Ecuador
Cayman Islands*	Nicaragua	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)*
Cuba	Panama	French Guiana
Dominica*		Guyana
Dominican Republic		Paraguay
Grenada		Peru
Guadeloupe[23]		Suriname
Haiti		Uruguay
Jamaica		Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep. of)
Martinique
Montserrat*
Netherlands Antilles[24]
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis*
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands*
United States Virgin Islands

Northern America

Bermuda*
Canada
Greenland*
Saint Pierre and Miquelon*
United States of America

Oceania
Australia/New Zealand	Melanesia	Micronesia	Polynesia[25]

Australia[26]	Fiji	Guam	American Samoa*
New Zealand	New Caledonia	Kiribati*	Cook Islands*
	Papua New Guinea	Marshall Islands*	French Polynesia
	Solomon Islands	Micronesia	Niue*
	Vanuatu	(Federated States of)	Samoa
		Nauru*	Tokelau*
		Northern Mariana Islands*	Tonga
		Palau*	Tuvalu*
			Wallis and Futuna Islands*
			Wallis and Futuna Islands*

Sub-Saharan Africa

Angola	Côte d'Ivoire	Kenya	Nigeria	Swaziland
Benin	Democratic Republic	Lesotho	Réunion	Togo
Botswana	of the Congo	Liberia	Rwanda	Uganda
Burkina Faso	Djibouti	Madagascar	Saint Helena	United Republic
Burundi	Equatorial Guinea	Malawi	São Tomé and Príncipe	of Tanzania
Cameroon	Eritrea	Mali	Senegal	Zambia
Cape Verde	Ethiopia	Mauritania	Seychelles	Zimbabwe
Central African Republic	Gabon	Mauritius	Sierra Leone
Chad	Gambia	Mayotte	Somalia
Comoros	Ghana	Mozambique	South Africa
Congo	Guinea	Namibia	South Sudan
	Guinea-Bissau	Niger

Least developed countries

Afghanistan	Gambia	Rwanda
Angola	Guinea	Samoa
Bangladesh	Guinea-Bissau	São Tomé and Príncipe
Benin	Haiti	Senegal
Bhutan	Kiribati	Sierra Leone
Burkina Faso	Lao People’s Democratic Republic	Solomon Islands
Burundi	Lesotho	Somalia
Cambodia	Liberia	South Sudan27
Central African Republic	Madagascar	Sudan
Chad	Malawi	Timor-Leste
Comoros	Mali	Togo
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Mauritania	Tuvalu
Djibouti	Mozambique	Uganda
Equatorial Guinea	Myanmar	United Republic of Tanzania
Eritrea	Nepal	Vanuatu
Ethiopia	Niger	Yemen
		Zambia

Notes

Countries with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants in 2010 are marked by an asterisk (*).

The designations employed in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

The designations “more developed regions” and “less developed regions” are used for statistical convenience and do not necessarily express a judgment about the stage reached by a particular country or area in the development process. The term “country” as used in this publication also refers, as appropriate, to territories or areas.

The more developed regions comprise all regions of Europe plus Northern America, Australia/New Zealand and Japan. The term “developed countries” is used to designate countries in the more developed regions.

The less developed regions comprise all regions of Africa, Asia (excluding Japan) and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The term “developing countries” is used to designate countries in the less developed regions.

The least developed countries, as defined by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolutions (59/209, 59/210, 60/33, 62/97, 64/L.55) are 49 countries27 as of March 2012: 34 in Africa, 9 in Asia, 5 in Oceania and one in Latin America and the Caribbean. The group includes: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan27, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Vanuatu, Yemen and Zambia. These countries are also included in the less developed regions.

The designation sub-Saharan Africa is commonly used to indicate all of Africa except northern Africa. Countries and areas are grouped geographically into six major areas: Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; Northern America; and Oceania. These major areas are further divided into 21 geographical regions. Country names and the composition of geographical areas follow those presented in “Standard country or area codes for statistical use” (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/49/Rev.3), available at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm.

Names of cities or urban agglomerations are presented in their original language, following the names used by National Statistical Offices or the United Nations Demographic Yearbook. For cities with names in more than one language, different names are separated by a hyphen. If the country uses non-Latin scripts, a transliteration of the original spelling into Latin script is used. If cities have established alternative names or English names, those names are presented in brackets. When necessary, the administrative subdivision to which a city belongs is appended to the city name to identify it unambiguously.

[1] Including Agalega, Rodrigues, and Saint Brandon.

[2] Including Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha.

[3] Including Zanzibar.

[4] Includes other non-specified areas

[5] The regions Southern Asia and Central Asia are combined into South-Central Asia.

[6] For statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao, Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of China.

[7] As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.

[8] Including Nagorno-Karabakh.

[9] As of 20 December 1999, Macao became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.

[10] Including Northern-Cyprus.

[11] Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia

[12] Including Sabah and Sarawak.

[13] Including East Jerusalem.

[14] Including Transnistria.

[15] Refers to Guernsey, and Jersey.

[16] Including Åland Islands.

[17] Refers to the Vatican City State.

[18] Including Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.

[19] Including Kosovo.

[20] Also referred to as United Kingdom.

[21] Including Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla

[22] Also referred to as TFYR Macedonia.

[23] Including Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin (French part).

[24] Refers to Curaçao, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius

[25] Including Pitcairn.

[26] Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island.

[27] Pending the official status, it was decided to include South Sudan in the least developed countries for statistical purposes.

Sources: Untied Nations Statistics Division, 2012.