### Chart IV-17. Countries and Regions which have Received Japan's ODA (disbursements up to 2007)

(1) Number of countries and regions to which Japan has given bilateral ODA: 187 (of which, the number of countries is 165)

(2) List of countries and regions

Regions indicated in parenthesis

East Asia	Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Republic of Korea (ROK), China, Timor-Leste, Philippines, Brunei, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Laos, (Hong Kong), (Taiwan), (Macao)Total of 17 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 14)
South Asia	India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, MaldivesTotal of 7 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 7)
Central Asia and the Caucasus	Azerbaijan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, Georgia, Tajikistan, TurkmenistanTotal of 8 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 8)
Africa	Angola, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Cape Verde, Gabon, Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Comoros, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Swaziland, Seychelles, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Chad, Central Africa, Togo, Nigeria, Namibia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, South Africa, Mauritius, Mozambique, Liberia, Rwanda, Lesotho, (Reunion), (Saint Helena)Total of 50 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 48)
Middle East	Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Yemen, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, (Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority)Total of 21 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 20)
Latin America and the Caribbean	Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Uruguay, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Cuba, Guatemala, Grenada, Costa Rica, Colombia, Jamaica, Suriname, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama, Bahamas, Paraguay, Barbados, Brazil, Venezuela, Belize, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico, (Netherlands Antilles), (Cayman Islands), (Bermuda), (Guadalupe), (Martinique), (French Guiana), (Montserrat), (Aruba)Total of 41 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 32)
Oceania	Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga, Nauru, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, (New Caledonia), (French Polynesia), (Cook Islands), (Niue), (Wallis and Futuna Islands), (United States Minor Outlying Islands), (Northern Mariana Islands)Total of 19 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 12)
Europe	Albania, Ukraine, Estonia, Cyprus, Greece, Croatia, Kosovo, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, (Gibraltar)Total of 25 countries/regions (of which, the number of countries is 24)

Notes: (1) The number of countries/regions to which Japan provided ODA in 2007 was 167 (of which, the number of countries is 162, including Eastern Europe). (2) Geographical division is based on MOfA's classification.

(3) Sudan had conventionally been classified under the Middle East region by MOfA, however, due to the planned change to classify Sudan under the African region in the future review of geographical classifications, Sudan is included in the African region in this chart for disbursements in 2007.

(4) Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union and graduated countries/regions are indicated in bold text. Regions which have been classified as a developed country and that have been removed from the recipient country list are italicized.

Reference: Countries/regions to which Japan has not provided ODA (8):

[Asia] North Korea; [Africa] Mayotte; [Latin America] Anguilla, Turks and Caicos Islands, Falkland Islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, British Virgin Islands; [Oceania] Tokelau.

(5) Although Kosovo gained independence from Serbia in February 2008, Japan had provided assistance in 2007 to Kosovo Autonomous Province prior to its independence.