regions.py

{   
    'Australia and New Zealand': ['Australia', 'N. Zealand', 'Norfolk Island'],
    'Central America': [  
                           'Costa Rica',
                           'El Salvador',
                           'Guatemala',
                           'Honduras',
                           'Mexico',
                           'Nicaragua',
                           'Panama',
                           'Dominican Rep.',
                           'Jamaica',
                           'Puerto Rico'                           
                           ],
    'Central Asia': [   'Kazakhstan',
                        'Tajikistan',
                        'Turk-menistan',
                        'Uzbekistan'],
    'Eastern Africa': [   'Burundi',
                          'Comoro Islands',
                          'Djibouti',
                          'Eritrea',
                          'Ethiopia',
                          'Eritrea & Ethiopia',
                          'Kenya',
                          'Madagascar',
                          'Malawi',
                          'Mauritius',
                          'Mayotte',
                          'Mozambique',
                          'Reunion',
                          'Rwanda',
                          'Seychelles',
                          'Somalia',
                          'Sudan',
                          'Tanzania',
                          'Uganda',
                          'Zambia',
                          'Zimbabwe'],
    'Eastern Asia': [   'China',
                        'Hong Kong',
                        'Japan',
                        "North Korea",
                        's. Korea',
                        'Macao',
                        'Mongolia',
                        'Taiwan'],
    'Eastern Europe': [   'Belarus',
                          'Bulgaria',
                          'Czech Rep.',
                          'Czecho-slovakia',
                          'Armenia',
                          'Hungary',
                          'Moldova',
                          'Poland',
                          'Romania',
                          'Russia',
                          'F. USSR'
                          'Slovakia',
                          'Ukraine',
                          'Kyrgyzstan'
    'Middle Africa': [   'Angola',
                         'Cameroon',
                         'Central African Republic',
                         'Chad',
                         'Congo',
                         'Congo-Kinshasa',
                         "Congo 'Brazzaville'",
                         'Equatorial Guinea',
                         'Gabon',
                         'Sao Tome and Principe',
                         "Cote d'Ivoire"],
    'Northern Africa': [   'Algeria',
                           'Egypt',
                           'Libya',
                           'Morocco',
                           'Sudan',
                           'Tunisia',
                           'Western Sahara',
                           'Cape Verde',
                           'Centr. Afr. Rep.'],
    'Northern America': [   'Bermuda',
                            'Canada',
                            'Greenland',
                            'Saint Pierre and Miquelon',
                            'United States of America',
                            'USA'],
    'Northern Europe': [   'Åland Islands',
                           'Denmark',
                           'Estonia',
                           'Faroe Islands',
                           'Finland',
                           'Guernsey',
                           'Iceland',
                           'Ireland',
                           'Isle of Man',
                           'Jersey',
                           'Latvia',
                           'Lithuania',
                           'Norway',
                           'Svalbard and Jan Mayen',
                           'Sweden',
                           'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ',
                           'England/GB/UK',
                           'Ireland'],
    'Polynesia': [   'American Samoa',
                     'Cook Islands',
                     'French Polynesia',
                     'Niue',
                     'Pitcairn',
                     'Samoa',
                     'Tokelau',
                     'Tonga',
                     'Tuvalu',
                     'Wallis and Futuna'],
    'South America': [   'Argentina',
                         'Bolivia (Plurinational State of)',
                         'Brazil',
                         'Chile',
                         'Colombia',
                         'Ecuador',
                         'Falkland Islands (Malvinas)',
                         'French Guiana',
                         'Guyana',
                         'Paraguay',
                         'Peru',
                         'Suriname',
                         'Uruguay',
                         'Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)',
                         'Venezuela',
                         'Cuba'],
    'South-Eastern Asia': [   'Brunei Darussalam',
                              'Cambodia',
                              'Indonesia',
                              "Lao People's Democratic Republic",
                              'Malaysia',
                              'Myanmar',
                              'Philippines',
                              'Singapore',
                              'Thailand',
                              'Timor-Leste',
                              'Vietnam',
                              'Burma',
                              'Cambodia',
                              'Laos',
                              ],
    'Southern Africa': [   'Botswana',
                           'Lesotho',
                           'Namibia',
                           'Cape Colony/ South Africa',
                           'Swaziland'],
    'Southern Asia': [   'Afghanistan',
                         'Bangladesh',
                         'Bhutan',
                         'India',
                         'Iran',
                         'Maldives',
                         'Nepal',
                         'Pakistan',
                         'Sri Lanka',
                         'Malaysia'],
    'Southern Europe': [   'Albania',
                           'Andorra',
                           'Bosnia and Herzegovina',
                           'Bosnia',
                           'Croatia',
                           'Gibraltar',
                           'Greece',
                           'Holy See',
                           'Italy',
                           '(Centre-   North)           Italy',
                           'Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of)',
                           'Macedonia',
                           'Yugoslavia',
                           'F. Yugoslavia',
                           'Malta',
                           'Montenegro',
                           'Portugal',
                           'San Marino',
                           'Serbia',
                           'Kosovo',
                           'Slovenia',
                           'Spain'],
    'Western Africa': [   'Benin',
                          'Burkina Faso',
                          'Cabo Verde',
                          "Côte d'Ivoire",
                          'Gambia',
                          'Ghana',
                          'Guinea',
                          'Guinea Bissau',
                          'Liberia',
                          'Mali',
                          'Mauritania',
                          'Niger',
                          'Nigeria',
                          'Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha',
                          'Senegal',
                          'Sierra Leone',
                          'Togo'],
    'Western Asia': [   'Armenia',
                        'Azerbaijan',
                        'Belarus',
                        'Bahrain',
                        'Cyprus',
                        'Georgia',
                        'Iraq',
                        'Israel',
                        'Jordan',
                        'Kuwait',
                        'Lebanon',
                        'Oman',
                        'Palestine, State of',
                        'Qatar',
                        'Saudi Arabia',
                        'Syria',
                        'Turkey',
                        'UAE',
                        'Yemen',
                        'W. Bank & Gaza'],
    'Western Europe': [   'Austria',
                          'Belgium',
                          'France',
                          'Germany',
                          'Liechtenstein',
                          'Luxembourg',
                          'Monaco',
                          'Netherlands',
                          'Holland/     Netherlands',
                          'Switzerland']}