Media Stats: compare key data on Philippines & South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Definitions
- Internet > Hosts: This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.
- Internet > IP addresses: Number of IPv4 internet addresses allocated to each country.
- Internet > IP addresses (share): Share of IPv4 internet addresses allocated per country.
- Internet > IP addresses per capita: Number of IPv4 internet address allocated per 1000 residents.
- Internet > TLD: This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).
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Telecommunications > Country calling code:
The calling code for each country. A calling code should not be confused with an area or city code. For instance, the calling code for the United States is 1, and the area code for Detroit is 313. In order to dial Detroit from overseas you must dial the 1, plus 313, then the actual phone number. It's also common to see a “+” in front of the calling code, e.g., +1 313 XXX-XXXX.
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Telecommunications > Telephone > International calling code:
Country Code.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
- Telephone system > International: A brief characterization of the system with details on international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry: Africa ONE - a fiber-optic submarine cable link encircling the continent of Africa. Arabsat
SOURCES: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; http://www.iana.org/numbers; http://www.iana.org/numbers; Wikipedia: List of country calling codes (Alphabetical listing by country or region); Wikipedia: Telephone numbers in Asia (States and territories with country calling codes); CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011
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