This code sample is adapted from Clifford B. Anderson and Joseph C. Wicentowski, XQuery for Humanists (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2020), 150. Download this code sample in its raw form. View the source on GitHub.

xquery version "3.1";

let $eastern := map { "eastern": ["China", "Russia", "Japan"] }
let $western := map { "western": ["Mexico", "Canada", "United States"] }
return
    map:merge(($eastern, $western))