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Number of countries, number of regions, land area, internally displaced persons and by conflict and violence of continents
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ShareThis dataset is about continents. It has 5 columns: continent, number of countries, number of regions, land area, and internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence. The data is ordered by population.
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There are 5 fields used in this dataset (including filters):
- Continent: Name of continent.
- Number Of Countries: Number of countries within the continent.
- Number Of Regions: Number of regions within the continent.
- Land Area: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes. This field is expressed in km².
- Internally Displaced Persons, By Conflict And Violence: Internally displaced persons are defined according to the 1998 Guiding Principles (http://www.internal-displacement.org/publications/1998/ocha-guiding-principles-on-internal-displacement) as people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of armed conflict, or to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters and who have not crossed an international border. “People displaced” refers to the number of people living in displacement as of the end of each year, and reflects the stock of people displaced at the end of the previous year, plus inflows of new cases arriving over the year as well as births over the year to those displaced, minus outflows which may include returnees, those who settled elsewhere, those who integrated locally, those who travelled over borders, and deaths. This field is expressed in people.
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This dataset is based on data from: World Bank
This dataset can be used under the CC BY 4.0 license
