We present the following regional overviews and case studies that reflect the type of solutions and services we provide across our global network.

The World

COUNTRIES

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent, covering roughly 30.2 million km² and around a fifth of the planet's land area. Home to over a billion people, it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and includes 54 recognised sovereign states along with Madagascar and several island groups. Africa has the youngest population of any continent, and fossil evidence from the region — including some of the earliest known hominid remains — makes it widely regarded as the birthplace of humankind.

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Asia

Asia is the largest and most populous continent on Earth, occupying under 9% of the planet's surface yet accounting for roughly 30% of its land area and around 60% of the global population. Its boundary with Europe is a cultural rather than a strict geographical one — together the two form the single landmass of Eurasia — and the continent is bordered by the Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans. Asia's sheer scale gives rise to enormous diversity in its ethnic groups, cultures, economies, and systems of government from one region to the next.

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Europe

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states located primarily in Europe, governed through a combination of supranational institutions — including the European Commission, the Council of the EU, the European Council, the Court of Justice, the European Central Bank, and the directly elected European Parliament. Tracing its roots to the European Coal and Steel Community of the 1950s, the EU was formally established under the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. It maintains a single market with free movement of people, goods, services and capital, a passport-free Schengen Area, and a shared currency — the euro — used by the majority of its members. With a population exceeding 440 million, the EU remains one of the world's largest economies and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.

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Latin America, North America & the Caribbean

Latin America refers to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Americas, stretching from the southern US border to the tip of South America and including the Caribbean — around 20 sovereign states with a combined population of over 600 million. North America, the third-largest continent by area, is home to roughly 565 million people across 23 independent states, dominated in size by Canada, the United States, Mexico and Greenland; its history spans early Paleoindian settlement, major pre-Columbian civilisations such as the Aztec and Maya, and European colonisation from the 16th century onward. The Caribbean comprises more than 700 islands, islets and cays across the Caribbean Sea, generally grouped into the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and is typically treated as a subregion of North America.

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Oceania

Oceania is a region centred on the tropical Pacific Ocean, generally understood to encompass Australia, New Zealand, and the island groupings of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia — though definitions vary between a narrower continental sense and a broader biogeographic one spanning the insular Pacific. The region covers around 8.6 million km² and is home to roughly 37 million people, with Puncak Jaya in Indonesia's Papua province often cited as its highest point.

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Sub-Sahara Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa refers, geographically, to the portion of the continent lying south of the Sahara Desert, distinguishing it from North Africa, which is generally considered part of the Arab world — although a few countries, such as Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros and Mauritania, are geographically Sub-Saharan while also being culturally part of the Arab world. For thousands of years, the harsh climate of the sparsely populated Sahara has acted as a natural barrier between the two regions, broken chiefly by the corridor of the Nile River.

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International: USA, Canada & Mexico

Regional documents for this section are coming soon.