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The EUCRA land and marine regions

Figure Created 27 Mar 2024 Published 20 Aug 2024 Last modified 20 Aug 2024
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Spatially aggregated regions for four sub-continental land and four marine regions. Regionalisation for land regions based on UN Geoscheme for Europe.

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The following adaptations have been made to the UN Geoscheme to ensure that all European Economic Area (EEA) member and cooperating countries (EEA-38) are covered:
• Omitting all countries that are not part of EEA-38
• Including Cyprus and Türkiye in ‘Southern Europe’ (rather than ‘Western Asia’)
• Changing the name of ‘Eastern Europe’ to ‘Central-Eastern Europe’ (to avoid confusion with the IPCC AR6 WGII region ‘Eastern Europe’, with which it does not overlap)

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External Data Spec EUCRA land regions (direct link to dataset not available) Data compiled by ETC
External Data Spec Regional seas around Europe - version 2, Oct. 2022 The regional seas around Europe are the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the North-east Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Two of these regions are further divided into subregions: North-east Atlantic Ocean • the Barents Sea; • the Iceland Sea; • the Norwegian Sea; • the White Sea; • The Greater North Sea, including the Kattegat, and the English Channel; • The Celtic Seas; • The Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast; • Macaronesia. Mediterranean Sea: • The Western Mediterranean Sea; • The Adriatic Sea; • The Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea; • The Aegean-Levantine Sea. The regional seas are harmonised with the boundaries established as the MSFD regions and subregions, as agreed by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Committee in November 2016. The delineation of additional seas follows the boundaries established under Regional Sea Conventions and ICES ecoregions. The present map is provided in ESRI shape- and ESRI Geodatabase formats.

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