It includes parts of the land mass where there are areas of interest. Here is an example. The NATO Response Force was designed in 2001 to provide NATO an expeditionary capability and to intervene in a series of places.
Haiti, after the earthquake, had absolutely no NATO involvement. There was a specific mission set that was designed within the NATO Response Force to help out and assist in regions of the world where disaster had struck, and yet NATO has never used the NATO Response Force in that regard.
In Afghanistan, NATO required the NATO Response Force as an election support force but could not find the means or a way to break through the North Atlantic Council to deploy that.