Research Article

Energy Investment Potential and Strategic Layout in Countries along the “Belt and Road” Based on Principal Component Analysis

Table 2

BRI countries.

NumberRegionsCountries

1MongoliaMongolia
2RussiaRussia
3Southeast Asia (11)Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanma0072, Brunei, and East Timor
4CIS (6)Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Moldova
5South Asia (8)India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Maldives, and Bhutan
6West Asia and North Africa (16)Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen Republic, Syria, The United Arab Emirates, andPalestine
7Central and Eastern Europe (16)Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro
8Central Asia (5)Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan