Region

Regions define political or geographical groupings of countries or territories.

For example, the European Union is defined as a list of countries, while Europe is defined geographically by a series of polygons.

There is one special region that includes all countries in the world and has special AID RGN-WRLD-WIDE

The Region object includes the following properties:

PropertyTypeDescription

aid

string

The aviowiki ID for this Region, with naspace RGN

name

string

The name assigned to the Region.

countries

list, null

A list of Countries that are included in the Region. null indicates that the Region is not defined by any Country.

multipolygon

list, null

A list of polygons, that are on their own a list of Coordinates that define the vertices of the polygon. null indicates that the Region is not defined by any polygon.

For example

{
  "aid": "RGN-DOCS-TEST",
  "name": "Test Region",
  "countries": [
    {
      "iso2": "FO",
      "iso3": "FRO",
      "isoNumeric": 234,
      "name": "Faroe Islands",
      "officialName": null,
      "localIdentifierName": null
    }
  ],
  "multipolygon": [
    [
      [
        3.7792969,
        80.9491884
      ],
      [
        41.0449219,
        80.9422728
      ],
      [
        18.984375,
        73.4033377
      ]
    ]
  ]
}

Represents a Region that includes Faroes Islands as a Country, and Svalbard as a geographical area enclosed in a triangle.

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