The One Young World Ambassador community is made up of 13,700+ OYW Ambassadors from 196 countries. The community has been divided into 6 regions (North America, Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe, Africa & the Middle East, Asia, Pacific Island Nations) which, in turn, are split into 27 Coordinating Regions. Each Coordinating Region is led by a Coordinating Ambassador who works to sustain momentum in their respective region between Summits.
All of the regions have been listed below. If you are still not sure which region you fall under, please check with the team at [email protected].
North America
USA 1 (North/Eastern USA): Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington DC
USA 2 (Southern USA): Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia
USA 3 (Western USA): Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
Canada: Canada
Latin America & the Carribean
Central America & Mexico: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Colombia: Colombia
Brazil: Brazil
Europe
UK & Ireland: United Kingdom and Ireland
Benelux & Germany: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg
Europe 1: Andorra, Austria, France, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Switzerland
Europe 2: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Malta, Albania, Kosovo, San Marino
Europe 3: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia
Europe 4: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden
Eastern Europe/Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Africa and the Middle East
Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
West & Central Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Togo
East Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
Middle East: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Asia
Asia 1: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Asia 2: China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mongolia
Asia 3: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam
Australia & NZ and Pacific Island Nations
Australia & NZ: Australia and New Zealand
Pacific Island Nations: Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu