NationMaster - Encyclopedia: ISO country code

ISO country code can refer to In other languages Iso means the following in other languages: Big in Finnish a Latin transliteration of the Greek ίσος, meaning equal. ...

ISO 3166-1 for countries that currently exist
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
ISO 3166-3 for countries that do not exist anymore

Generally, it's the two letter country code of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. ISO 3166-1 as part of the ISO 3166 standard provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. ... 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 ISO 3166-3 is an international standard that defines codes for outdated ISO 3166-1 country codes and is part of ISO 3166. ... 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). ...

It is not the same as ISO 3166 because ISO 3166-2 is not a country code. ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof. ... ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ...

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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: ISO country code (389 words)
	The two-character ISO 3166 country code for ARMENIA.
	The two-character ISO 3166 country code for ARGENTINA.
	The two-character ISO 3166 country code for AUSTRIA.

International Country Codes, ISO 3166 Code, FIPS 10-4 Code, UN numeric code (315 words)
	Country listing with the given two letter code (ISO alpha-2) and the three letter code (ISO alpha-3), the UN numeric code (ISO 3166-1 numeric-3), as well as the FIPS 10-4 code for countries, dependencies, and other areas.
	ISO 3166 a standard developed for the current names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest, on the basis of lists of country names obtained from the United Nations and maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency established by the ISO Council, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
	ISO 3166-1 numeric-3 is a set of 3-digit codes, independent of a writing system, developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division to represent the names of countries and dependent areas.

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