It was founded in 1949 as the world governing body of national university sports organisations and currently has 163 member associations from 5 continental regions.

The scientists say that Alaska and other far northern continental regions should warm about twice as much as the average for the globe.

Here, runoff variability is much higher than in other continental regions of the world with similar climates.

This problem shows up only when aggregating to larger land, ocean, or continental regions for interpretation, but has no influence on the assimilation process itself.

Tropical island surface waters are relatively depleted in nutrients compared to continental coastal regions.

Depending on the number of countries registered per continental region, that many slots were given at the world championships.

In some cases paleoseismology can fill some of the gap, but this is rare for continental regions.

It is bordered along the western and eastern sides by continental regions of irregular terrain.

However, family honor entails different components depending on the continental region.

The continental region is divided into the following sub-regions: