In the same way (sadly!) that a nation's town, city - locality/region may have its 'accident' hot spots, of course globally, specific countries will too?
Recollection of radio programme on road accident rates in Romania... and recall a paper in South Sudan Medical Journal:
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ssmj/article/view/156544
Yes, crucial to get terminology correct in reporting across contexts and scales.
Peter Jones
Community Mental Health Nurse and Researcher
Blogging at "Welcome to the QUAD"
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/h2cm
HIFA profile: Peter Jones is a Community Mental Health Nurse with the NHS in NW England and a a part-time tutor at Bolton University. Peter champions a conceptual framework - Hodges' model - that can be used to facilitate personal and group reflection and holistic / integrated care. A bibliography is provided at the blog 'Welcome to the QUAD' (http://hodges-model.blogspot.com). h2cmuk AT yahoo.co.uk