Concepts and delimitation of the world’s macro-regions

J. Anděl; I. Bičík; J. D. Bláha

doi:10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0001

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Concepts and delimitation of the world’s macro-regions

Miscellanea Geographica

Volume 22 (2018): Issue 1 (March 2018)

By: J. Anděl, I. Bičík and J. D. Bláha

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Civilizations according to Huntington (1996). Note: partly modified; scale 1:260,000,000.

Macro-regions of the world according to De Blij & Muller (1997). Scale 1:260,000,000.

Culture realms according to Fellmann et al. (2008). Scale 1:260,000,000.

Table 1

Macro-regions of the world in various authors’ concepts

Author	MORRIS	HÄUFLER	DE BLIJ and MULLER	CLAWSON et al.	HUNTINGTON (civilisations)	COLE	FELLMANN et al.
Year	1972	1985	1997	2007	1996	1996	2008
Europe	Western and Central	Capitalist	Europe	Europe	×Western	“Western”
	Western and Central	Communist			^***Orthodox	post-Communist	European
	Southern
	Eastern
Russia	USSR	USSR	Russia	*Russia	^***Russia	post-Soviet space	Slav
Russia	USSR	USSR	Russia	*Russia
Asia	**Middle East	**SWAs+NAf	** SWAs +NAf	*Central EurAsia	**Islamic	** SWAs +NAf	**Islamic
	Southern	Eastern	Eastern	**Central	Indian	Southern	Indian
	South Eastern	Southern	Southern	Eastern	Buddhist	South-Eastern	South-Eastern
	Central	China, North Korea	China, North Korea		Chinese	Eastern developing	Sino
	and Eastern	Japan	Japan	Asia	Japanese	Eastern advanced	Japanese
Africa	**Middle East	**SWAs+NAf	**SWAs+NAf	**Middle East	** Islamic	**SWAs+NAf	**Islamic
Africa	Sub-Saharan	Sub-Saharan	Sub-Saharan	Sub-Saharan	African	Sub-Saharan	Sub-Saharan
North America	Canada	North	North	USA
	USA-West			Canada	×Western	North	North American
	USA-East
Latin America	Central	Central	Central	Latin America	Latin	Latin	Latin
Latin America	South	South	South	Latin America			American
Australia	Australia	Australia	Australia	Australia	xWestern	Australia and Oceania	Australian-Oceanic
Australia	Australia	Australia	Pacific	Australia		Australia and Oceania
All macro-regions	15	13	12	8	8	12	11

Notes: In some complicated cases, there is a simplified concept. or, SWAs+NAf representing South-Western Asia and Northern Africa. Sources: Morris 1972, Häufler 1985, De Blij and Muller 1997, Clawson et al. 2007, Huntington 1996, Cole 1996, Fellmann et al. 2008

* The signs

** depict being part of two continents

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2084-6118 | Journal ISSN: 0867-6046 (formerly 2084-6118)

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Language: English

Page range: 16 - 21

Submitted on: Dec 18, 2017

Accepted on: Apr 19, 2018

Published on: Mar 30, 2018

Published by: Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Regional geography,

geography of the world,

differentiation of the world,

global macro-regions,

concepts and factors of regionalization

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