Countries of South America (World)

This group collects the 12 sovereign states and territories that the atlas's own country entities already record, through each country's own SubLabel field (set when the country itself was minted and sourced), as sitting in the United Nations M49 geoscheme's South America intermediate region. It is a single flat group under the South America subcategory, not split further by any smaller unit, since South America stays well under the atlas's own hundred-member threshold for a further split. It sits directly under the South America subcategory and under the atlas's own Groups category, giving a reader a direct browse path from either the South America subcategory page or the Groups index.