Group
type: Class

Special Group
type: Class

Area
type: Class

RDF description of least developed countries - http://aims.fao.org/aos/geopolitical.owl#LDC_1993
type: Document
rights: LDC 1993/termsOfUse
date: 2026-08-12T02:24:00
publisher: least developed countries

least developed countries
type: Thing
has member: Djibouti
name official AR: البلدان الأقل نموا ;أقل البلدان نمو
has member: Bhutan
has member: Guinea
has member: Lesotho
has member: Angola
has member: Mauritania
has member: Kiribati
name short EN: LDCs
source identifier: http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org7_e.htm
name list IT: paesi meno avanzati
name list RU: HPC
has member: Benin
name short ZH: 最不发达国家
has member: Mozambique
has member: Gambia
type: Area
has member: Burundi
has member: Bangladesh
name short IT: PMA
name official FR: pays les moins avancés
has member: Chad
has member: Lao People's Democratic Republic
has member: Timor-Leste
type: Special Group
is predecessor of: least developed countries
name short ES: países menos adelantados
has member: Myanmar
has member: Liberia
has member: Togo
has member: Rwanda
has member: Cape Verde
valid until: 2010
name official ZH: 最不发达国家
type: Group
has member: Vanuatu
has member: Senegal
name list ZH: 最不发达国家
code UN: 199
has member: Haiti
has member: Niger
has member: Somalia
source identifier: http://www.wto.org/french/thewto_f/whatis_f/tif_f/org7_f.htm
has member: Sierra Leone
code FAOTERM: 2943
has member: Comoros
has member: Ethiopia
has member: Zambia
name list AR: البلدان الأقل نموا
name list FR: pays les moins avancés
source: WTO http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org7_e.htm
name list EN: least developed countries
has member: Sudan
has member: Eritrea
has member: Maldives
source creator: WTO
has member: Samoa
valid since: 1993
has member: Uganda
has member: Guinea-Bissau
has member: Nepal
has member: Yemen
name short AR: البلدان الأقل نموا
has member: Equatorial Guinea
has member: Malawi
source identifier: http://www.wto.org/spanish/thewto_s/whatis_s/tif_s/org7_s.htm
has member: Mali
name list ES: países menos adelantados
name short RU: наименее развитые страны
name official EN: least developed countries
has member: Solomon Islands
has member: Democratic Republic of the Congo
has member: Cambodia
has member: United Republic of Tanzania
has member: Central African Republic
has member: Madagascar
has member: Afghanistan
most specific type: Special Group

Djibouti
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type: GeographicRegion
type: Country
type: self governing
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type: territory
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type: Thing
type: Area
type: GeopoliticalEntity
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type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000141
type: BFO_0000002
type: Location

Bhutan
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000004
is in group: least developed countries
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeographicLocation
type: self governing
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type: BFO_0000141
type: Country
type: BFO_0000001
type: Location
type: BFO_0000002
type: Thing
type: Area
type: territory

Guinea
type: GeographicLocation
is in group: least developed countries
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000006
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000001
type: Area
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000141
type: territory
type: self governing
type: GeographicRegion
type: Location
type: Country

Lesotho
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type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: territory
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type: Country
type: BFO_0000001
type: BFO_0000004
type: BFO_0000006
type: Area
type: GeographicLocation
type: Location
is in group: least developed countries
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000002
type: Thing

Angola
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type: territory
type: Country
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: Location
type: Thing
type: Area
type: BFO_0000006
is in group: least developed countries

Mauritania
type: GeographicLocation
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type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: territory
type: self governing
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type: BFO_0000001
type: Area
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeographicRegion
type: Location
type: Country
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type: BFO_0000141

Kiribati
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type: BFO_0000004
type: Thing
type: Country
type: territory
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type: Location
type: GeographicRegion
type: Area
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000001
type: BFO_0000141

Benin
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type: BFO_0000001
type: territory
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type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Location
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type: Thing
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: self governing
type: Country
type: BFO_0000004
type: Area

Mozambique
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type: Location
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type: GeographicRegion
type: Area
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000001
type: Country
type: BFO_0000006
type: territory
type: BFO_0000004
type: Thing
type: self governing
is in group: least developed countries

Gambia
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type: BFO_0000001
type: Location
type: Area
type: self governing
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeographicRegion
is in group: least developed countries
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000004
type: territory
type: Country
type: BFO_0000141

Burundi
type: Country
type: self governing
type: Area
is in group: least developed countries
type: territory
type: Thing
type: Location
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000141
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicLocation
type: GeopoliticalEntity

Bangladesh
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type: self governing
type: BFO_0000004
type: territory
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000006
type: Thing
type: GeographicLocation
type: Location
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000141
type: Country
is in group: least developed countries
type: Area

Chad
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type: Thing
type: BFO_0000006
type: self governing
type: GeopoliticalEntity
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type: Location
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type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000004
type: territory
type: Area
type: GeographicLocation
type: Country
type: BFO_0000002

Lao People's Democratic Republic
type: Thing
type: Country
type: BFO_0000004
type: Area
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000001
is in group: least developed countries
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: Location
type: BFO_0000141
type: territory
type: GeographicRegion

Timor-Leste
type: territory
type: Area
type: BFO_0000141
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000001
type: BFO_0000006
is in group: least developed countries
type: BFO_0000002
type: Location
type: self governing
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Country

least developed countries
type: Special Group
type: Group
type: Area
type: Thing
is successor of: least developed countries

Myanmar
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type: self governing
type: Country
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeographicLocation
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Location
type: territory
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000001
type: Area
type: BFO_0000141
is in group: least developed countries

Liberia
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type: Country
type: Thing
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000141
type: Area
type: BFO_0000001
type: territory
type: BFO_0000004
type: Location
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type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeopoliticalEntity
is in group: least developed countries

Togo
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type: GeographicLocation
type: Area
type: GeographicRegion
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type: self governing
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000001
type: BFO_0000004
is in group: least developed countries
type: BFO_0000002
type: Country
type: territory
type: Location
type: BFO_0000006

Rwanda
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type: Thing
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000002
is in group: least developed countries
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000001
type: territory
type: Area
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeographicLocation
type: Location
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000141
type: Country

Cape Verde
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type: BFO_0000141
type: Country
type: GeographicLocation
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000004
is in group: least developed countries
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type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicRegion
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000006
type: Location
type: Area
type: BFO_0000002

Vanuatu
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type: territory
type: BFO_0000141
type: self governing
type: Area
type: Country
type: Location
type: GeographicLocation
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000006
is in group: least developed countries
type: BFO_0000002

Senegal
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type: BFO_0000001
type: BFO_0000004
type: BFO_0000141
type: Thing
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000006
type: Country
type: self governing
type: Area
type: territory
is in group: least developed countries
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Location

Haiti
type: Area
is in group: least developed countries
type: self governing
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Thing
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000141
type: territory
type: Location
type: BFO_0000004
type: Country
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicRegion

Niger
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
is in group: least developed countries
type: BFO_0000001
type: Country
type: Thing
type: Location
type: BFO_0000141
type: BFO_0000002
type: Area
type: territory
type: GeographicLocation
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000004

Somalia
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type: BFO_0000006
type: Country
type: GeographicLocation
type: Location
type: BFO_0000141
is in group: least developed countries
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeographicRegion
type: Thing
type: territory
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000002

Sierra Leone
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type: GeographicRegion
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000141
type: Thing
type: Location
type: BFO_0000004
type: Area
type: Country
is in group: least developed countries
type: territory
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeopoliticalEntity

Comoros
type: Location
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000001
is in group: least developed countries
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000141
type: self governing
type: Country
type: BFO_0000002
type: Area
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000004
type: territory
type: GeopoliticalEntity

Ethiopia
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type: BFO_0000001
type: Thing
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: self governing
type: Country
is in group: least developed countries
type: BFO_0000002
type: Area
type: territory
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000004
type: Location
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Zambia
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type: BFO_0000141
type: BFO_0000001
type: self governing
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: Country
is in group: least developed countries
type: Area
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000004
type: territory
type: Thing

Sudan
type: territory
type: Country
type: BFO_0000141
type: GeographicLocation
type: GeographicRegion
is in group: least developed countries
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: self governing
type: Location
type: BFO_0000004
type: BFO_0000001
type: Area
type: BFO_0000002
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000006

Eritrea
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type: Area
type: self governing
type: Thing
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Location
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type: Country
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Maldives
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type: Area
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type: BFO_0000141
is in group: least developed countries
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type: Thing
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type: Country
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type: self governing
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Samoa
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type: territory
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type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Country
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type: Area
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type: Location
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is in group: least developed countries
type: Thing
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Uganda
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type: territory
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type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Thing
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type: GeographicRegion
type: Location
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Guinea-Bissau
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type: Thing
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type: Location
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000141
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000004
type: Area
type: territory
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicLocation
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Nepal
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type: GeopoliticalEntity
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Yemen
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Equatorial Guinea
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type: self governing
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type: Thing
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Malawi
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Mali
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type: Country
type: Location
type: GeopoliticalEntity
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Solomon Islands
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Cambodia
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United Republic of Tanzania
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Central African Republic
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Madagascar
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type: territory
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Afghanistan
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Sao Tome and Principe
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Burkina Faso
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Tuvalu
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