African Sub Area........

Sub Areas Within Africa

As mentioned in our earlier post we are now going to discuss about the sub areas which comes under the African Continent. They are as follows.

1. Angola
2. Benin
3. Botswana
4. Burkina Faso
5. Burundi
6. Cameroon
7. Cape Verde
8. Central African Republic
9. Chad
10. Comoros
11. Congo (Brazzaville)
12. Congo (Kinshasa)
13. Cote D'lvoire
14. Djibouti
15. Equatorial Guinea
16. Eritrea
17. Ethiopia
18. Gabon
19. Gambia
20. Ghana
21. Guinea
22. Guinea-Bissau
23. Kenya
24. Lesotho
25. Liberia
26. Libya Arab Jamahiriya
27. Madagascar
28. Malawi
29. Mali
30. Mauritania
31. Mayotte
32. Mozambique
33. Namibia
34. Niger
35. Nigeria
36. Reunion
37. Rwanda
38. Sao Tome and Principe
39. Senegal
40. Seychelles
41. Sierra Leone
42. Somalia
43. South Africa
44. Swaziland
45. Tanzania
46. Togo
47. Uganda
48. Zambia
49. Zimbabwe.

IATA Area 2

IATA Area 2 or Traffic Conference(TC) area 2 comprises of Europe, Africa and Ascension Island and parts of Asia west of Ural mountains including Iran and countries of Middle East.

TC 2 Within the sub area of Europe:
The countries within the European Sub areas are as follows.

1. Albania
2. Algeria
3. Andorra
4. Armenia
5. Austria
6. Azerbaijan
7. Belarus
8. Belgium
9. Bosnia & Herzegovina
10. Bulgaria
11. Croatia
12. Cyprus
13. Czech Republic
14. Denmark
15. Estonia
16. Faroe Islands
17. Finland
18. France
19. Georgia
20. Germany
21. Gibraltar
22. Greece
23. Hungary
24. Iceland
25. Ireland
26. Italy
27. Latvia
28. Liechtenstein
29. Lithuania
30. Luxembourg
31. Macedonia
32. Former Yugoslav Republic
33. Malta
34. Monaco
35. Moldova
36. Morocco
37. Netherlands
38. Norway
39. Poland
40. Portugal (Including Azores and Madeira)
41. Romania
42. Russia
43. San Marino
44. Serbia
45. Slovakia
46. Slovenia
47. Spain
48. Sweden
49. Switzerland
50. Tunisia
51. Turkey
52. Ukraine
53. United Kingdom

Overall approximately around 53 countries are their which fall under the sub areas of Europe. Please find below the sub ares within Middle.

Sub Area Within Middle East

1. Bahrain
2. Egypt
3. Iran
4. Israel
5. Iraq
6. Jordan
7. Kuwait
8. Lebanon
9. Oman
10. Qatar
11. Saudi Arabia
12. Syrian Arab Republic
13. Sudan
14. UAE(Comprises of Abu Dhabi, Ajman,Dubai,Fujairah,Ras Al Khaimah,Sharjah,Umm Al Qaiwan ) and
15. Yemen.

As we have covered the sub areas for Europe and Middle East, our next sub area to be covered is of Africa. Please find the the details in our next post

IATA Area 1

IATA Area 1 or TC 1
IATA Area 1 or TC 1 comprises of North America, South America, Central America and the adjacent islands like Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Islands of the Caribbean Sea, Hawaiian Islands which includes Midway and Palmyra.

Traffic Conference Sub-Areas.

TC1 - Mexico Sub Area
between Canada,USA and Mexico excluding Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,US.


TC 1 - Caribbean Sub Areas
1) between: USA and Bermuda, Bahamas, The Caribbean Islands, Guyana,Suriname, French Guyana excluding Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,US.
2) between Canada, Mexico and Bermuda, Bahamas, The Caribbean Islands including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,US, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana.


Longhaul Sub Areas
1) Between Canada, Mexico, USA and Central America and South America
2) Between Bermuda, Bahamas, The Caribbean Islands, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Central America and South America.
3) Between Central America and South America
4)Within Central America.

Area 1 Within South American Sub Area
The area includes, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

World Geography

World Geography is an essential part of Travel Industry. Any Travel agents or travel consultant who is handling matters related to preparations of Itineraries, reservations, fare calculations and ticketing should have a thorough knowledge about the world geography and also should be able to identify the cities by the location, country, areas and sub areas defined by IATA.
If a person who is related to travel field is having the knowledge about the world geography then he or she can easily plan out the best suitable itinerary for their clients.
The Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere which are the two parts of the world as per the elementary geography is further divided by IATA into 3 traffic conference areas called IATA Areas or TC1, TC2 and TC3 which comprise of further sub areas and that is different from the geographical definitions.
Next post informs about the different areas assigned by IATA.