List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent (data file)

The list of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent data file is a plain text format describing the list of countries by continent, suitable for automated processing.

Data file
Note: This data was compiled by hand and may contain mistakes. One small modification is that the various "insular areas of the United States" listed above are recorded here as the single "United States Minor Outlying Islands" in Oceania.