The South Atlantic Union is an intergovernmental organization between four member states located mostly along the South Atlantic Ocean. Through its unified structure in certain areas of international policy, the Union draws its four member states closer together in international cooperation while also allowing each member to retain a large amount of sovereignty in their respective territories. Unlike the European Union, the South Atlantic Union aims to create a common international body rather than a superstate consisting of many different nation-states, and in that, the South Atlantic Union only has organizations and policies which bind the governments together rather than indirectly exercising control over each of them as a whole.