Über diesen Artikel
Online veröffentlicht: 30. März 2018
Seitenbereich: 16 - 21
Eingereicht: 18. Dez. 2017
Akzeptiert: 19. Apr. 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0001
Schlüsselwörter
© 2018 University of Warsaw – Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
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” | |
| Communist | ***Orthodox | post-Communist | European | ||||
| Southern | |||||||
| Eastern | |||||||
| Russia | USSR | USSR | Russia | ***Russia | post-Soviet space | Slav | |
| Asia | *Central EurAsia | ||||||
| Southern | Eastern | Eastern | 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 | |||||||
| 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 |
| South | South | South | American | ||||
| Australia | Australia | Australia | Australia | Australia | xWestern | Australia and Oceania | Australian-Oceanic |
| Pacific | |||||||
| All macro-regions | 15 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 11 |