Africa MeSH[Z01.058] Africa_Central MeSH[[Z01.058.290.100]] Africa_Eastern MeSH[Z01.058.290.120] Africa_Northern MeSH[Z01.058.266] Africa_Southern MeSH[Z01.058.290.175] Africa_Western MeSH[Z01.058.290.190] Americas MeSH[Z01.107] Ancient_Lands MeSH[Z01.586.035] Antarctic_Regions MeSH[Z01.158] The continent lying around the South Pole and the southern waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It includes the Falkland Islands Dependencies. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p55) Arctic_Regions MeSH[Z01.208] The Arctic Ocean and the lands in it and adjacent to it. It includes Point Barrow, Alaska, most of the Franklin District in Canada, two thirds of Greenland, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Lapland, Novaya Zemlya, and Northern Siberia. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p66) Asia MeSH[Z01.252] Asia_Central MeSH[Z01.252.100] Asia_Southeastern MeSH[Z01.252.145] Asia_Western MeSH[Z01.252.245] Atlantic_Islands MeSH[Z01.295] Australia MeSH[Z01.338] Caribbean_Region MeSH[Z01.107.084] Central_America MeSH[Z01.107.169] Commonwealth_of_Independent_States MeSH[Z01.586.200] Czechoslovakia MeSH[Z01.586.250] East_Germany Europe MeSH[Z01.542] European_Union MeSH[Z01.586.300] The collective designation of three organizations with common membership: the European Economic Community (Common Market), the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). It was known as the European Community until 1994. It is primarily an economic union with the principal objectives of free movement of goods, capital, and labor. Professional services, social, medical and paramedical, are subsumed under labor. (The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, p842) Far_East MeSH[Z01.252.474] Geographical_Regions Historical_Geographic_Locations MeSH[Z01.586] Indian_Ocean_Islands MeSH[Z01.600] Latin_America MeSH[Z01.107.424] Middle_East MeSH[Z01.586.500] The countries of southwest Asia and northeastern Africa usually considered as extending from Libya on the west to Afghanistan on the east. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988) New_Guinea MeSH[Z01.586.650] North_America MeSH[Z01.107.567] Oceania MeSH[Z01.678] Oceans_and_Seas MeSH[Z01.756] Other_regions Pacific_Islands MeSH[Z01.782] South_America MeSH[Z01.107.757] USSR MeSH[Z01.586.950] West_Germany Yugoslavia MeSH[Z01.586.980]