Race is defined in many ways, many of them emphasizing cultural rather than biologic differences.

C. S. Coon, in his "The Races of Europe," fits people in three main groups: Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid.

Caucasoids include most North Africans, Europeans, those of the Horn of Africa, western Asia/Middle East, Asia Minor, and central and south Asia. Note that skin shades are not considered a major physical differential.

The other two are Mongoloid and Negroid.

A good summary of the variables in the various groupings considered in classifications is contained in the article by Scott MacEachern, "The Concept of Race in Contemporary Anthropology," which is online.

The UK police "identity code" is based on cultural/geographical, not physical anthropological, differences.