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.

• ISO 3166-1 codes for country and dependent area names, first published in 1974
  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 the famous two-letter country codes
  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes
  • ISO 3166-1 numeric three-digit country codes
• ISO 3166-2 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• ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.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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