ITU regions, corresponding to the regional grouping of the ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau
Africa Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cabo Verde Central African Rep. Chad Congo (Rep. of the)
Côte d'Ivoire Dem. Rep. of the Congo) Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe |
The Americas Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Rep. Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela |
Arab States Algeria Bahrain Comoros Djibouti Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Palestine* Qatar Saudi Arabia Somalia Sudan Syrian Arab Republic Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen |
Asia and the Pacific Afghanistan Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Dem. People’s Rep. of Korea Fiji Hong Kong, China India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Japan Kiribati Korea (Rep. of)
Lao P.D.R Macao, China Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Micronesia Mongolia Myanmar Nauru Nepal (Republic of) New Zealand Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Singapore Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Thailand Timor-Leste Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Viet Nam |
CIS Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russian Federation Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan |
Europe Albania Andorra Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands (Kingdom of the) North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Türkiye Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican |
For other groupings (such as Least Developed Countries, Land Locked Developing Countries or Small Island Developing States), please consult
UN M49**.
* Palestine is not an ITU Member State; the status of Palestine in ITU is the subject of Resolution 99 (rev. Dubai, 2018) of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference.
** Note: The M49 is a standard for area codes used by the United Nations for statistical purposes, developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division. Based on the M49, economies are classified according to macro geographical regions and sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings, see:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm. Of note is that the distinction between “Developed regions” and “Developing regions” was removed from the M49 Standard in December 2021.