ISO 3166

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ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof.

The official name is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions.

• ISO 3166-1 codes for country and dependent area names, first published in 1974
  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes
  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes
  • ISO 3166-1 numeric three-digit country codes
• ISO 3166-2 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 2: Country subdivision code - defines codes for the principal subdivisions of a country or dependent area.
  • ISO 3166-2:2000-06-21 Newsletter I-1
  • ISO 3166-2:2002-05-21 Newsletter I-2
  • ISO 3166-2:2002-08-20 Newsletter I-3
  • ISO 3166-2:2002-12-10 Newsletter I-4
  • ISO 3166-2:2003-09-05 Newsletter I-5
  • ISO 3166-2:2004-03-08 Newsletter I-6
  • ISO 3166-2:2005-09-13 Newsletter I-7
• ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.

See also

• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
• Federal Information Processing Standard
• ISO 639 (codes for languages)
• List of international license plate codes

External links

• From ISO website
  • The ISO 3166/MA-Secretariat
  • ISO 3166 and You
  • Implementations of ISO 3166-1
• Country Codes
• Country Codes with comparisoncs:ISO 3166-1

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