Asia Pacific Region (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

WAGGGS Asia Pacific Region
Map of members or potential members of the WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region; the countries with no Guiding organization, and those outside the Region, are in grey
Country26 countries in Asia pacific Region
Founded1969
Membership2.5
Website
https://www.wagggs.org/en/our-world/asia-pacific-region/
 Scouting portal

The WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region is the divisional office of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, headquartered in Makati, Philippines; Australia; and Japan. The WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region services Guiding in the land area of Asia south of Russia-in-Asia and the bulk of the Pacific Basin.[1]

All the formerly communist states of Central Asia and the Soviet Union have developed or are developing Guiding in the wake of the renaissance in the region. For several years, communism repressed Guiding in Afghanistan, where it has newly returned, as well as in Mongolia, which had been the first Soviet satellite state since 1924.

This region is the counterpart of the Asia-Pacific Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Post-soviet nations are divided between the WAGGGS-Europe Region and the WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region.

  1. ^ WAGGGS. "Asia-Pacific Region micro-site". WAGGGS.org. netXtra. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.

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