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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 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from national standards bodies. ...
A geographic coding scheme generates codes for human-created geographical entities such as countries, counties, towns, airports, and so on. ...
Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition. ...
In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same sort. ...
Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: country In political geography and international politics a country is a geographical territory. ...
Dependent areas are territories that for some reason do not enjoy full independence or sovereignty as states. ...
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 3166-2 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- ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.
It has been suggested that List of ISO country codes be merged into this article or section. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are the best known part of ISO 3166-1 and subsequent use as most of the country codes for Internet domain names (see also External Links below). ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 is used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports. ...
ISO 3166-1 numeric-3 is a set of 3-digit codes to represent the names of countries and dependent areas. ...
ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ...
ISO 3166-2:2000-06-21 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 1) which was issued on June 6, 2000. ...
ISO 3166-2:2002-05-21 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 2) which was issued on May 21, 2002. ...
ISO 3166-2 Newsletter number 3, August 20, 2002 This newsletter announced changes to ISO 3166-2. ...
ISO 3166-2 Newsletter number 4, December 10, 2002 This Newsletter announced changes to ISO 3166-2. ...
ISO 3166-2:2003-09-05 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 5) which was issued on September 5, 2003. ...
ISO 3166-2:2004-03-08 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 6) which was issued on March 8, 2004. ...
ISO 3166-3 is an international standard that defines codes for outdated ISO 3166-1 country codes and is part of ISO 3166. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
See also The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative division of countries for statistical purposes. ...
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the U.S. Federal government for use by all (non-military) government agencies and by government contractors. ...
ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ...
This is a list of vehicle country identification codes: Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Note * Non-official ** CD means also corps diplomatique Old Codes Note1...
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