Geographical segment information

The segment information from a geographical perspective is derived as follows:

Geographical information relating to the total assets and capital expenditures
Year ended at 31 December 2009	Intan- gible assets	Property, plant and equip- ment	Finan- cial fixed assets	Pension assets	Trade recei- vable	Other cur- rents assets	Total assets¹	Capital expen- ditures assets
Europe
The Netherlands²	1,021	578	75	884	265	975	3,798	89
United Kingdom	174	261	1		172	75	683	41
Italy	4	34	37		236	48	359	13
Germany	79	77	61		108	42	367	16
France	287	68	7		100	22	484	6
Belgium	32	296	10		61	69	468	9
Rest of Europe	42	88	29		155	51	365	25
Americas
USA and Canada		3	38		6	3	50	1
Brazil	227	67	3		49	24	370	27
South & Middle America	34	23	1		17	10	85	2
Africa & the Middle East	3	8	1		25	16	53	7
Australia & Pacific	22	70	53		51	9	205	5
Asia
China and Taiwan	111	23	1		74	42	251	12
India	23	2	2		16	11	54	1
Rest of Asia	2	12	5		35	22	76	4
Total	2,061	1,610	324	884	1,370	1,419	7,668	258
(in € millions)

Geographical information relating to the total assets and capital expenditures
Year ended at 31 December 2008	Intan- gible assets	Property, plant and equip- ment	Finan- cial fixed assets	Pension assets	Trade recei- vable	Other cur- rents assets	Total assets¹	Capital expen- ditures assets
Europe
The Netherlands²	1,010	617	80	726	274	591	3,298	97
United Kingdom	168	280	5		174	96	723	92
Italy	48	41	35		253	59	436	23
Germany	135	81	60		115	38	429	18
France	287	75	8		100	24	494	17
Belgium	31	314	15		73	33	466	14
Rest of Europe	69	80	20		150	85	404	46
Americas
USA and Canada		3	35		6	4	48	1
Brazil	130	37	2		22	15	206	16
South & Middle America	1	2	1		9	5	18	1
Africa & the Middle East	3	3	1		27	14	48	2
Australia & Pacific	21	64	38		40	7	170	18
Asia
China and Taiwan	131	22			72	48	273	8
India	28	3	2		16	9	58	3
Rest of Asia	1	12	5		39	32	89	7
Total	2,063	1,634	307	726	1,370	1,060	7,160	363
(in € millions) 1 - Total assets exclude assets held for sale. 2 - Including the goodwill arising from the acquisition of TNT Ltd/GD Express Worldwide.

Geographical information relating to the employees
At 31 December	Express	Mail	Other networks	Non- allocated	2009	2008
Europe
The Netherlands	2,833	62,360	193	283	65,669	62,562
United Kingdom	11,339	911			12,250	13,018
Italy	3,078	1,454			4,532	4,627
Germany¹	4,212	4,969	1,005		10,186	10,432
France	4,646	20			4,666	4,767
Belgium	2,357	606	45		3,008	3,127
Rest of Europe	7,965	9,412	112		17,489	18,403
Americas
USA and Canada	776	50			826	862
Brazil	9,116				9,116	6,312
South & Middle America	1,158				1,158	546
Africa & the Middle East	1,340	9		83	1,432	1,787
Australia & Pacific	4,823				4,823	5,112
Asia
China and Taiwan	18,974	116			19,090	16,768
India	2,014				2,014	2,192
Rest of Asia	3,399	5			3,404	3,570
Total	78,030	79,912	1,355	366	159,663	154,085
1 - The comparative number for Germany has been restated to align with the 2009 definition.

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