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ISO 3166

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.
  • Newsletter I-1
  • Newsletter I-2
  • Newsletter I-3
  • Newsletter I-4
  • Newsletter I-5
  • Newsletter I-6
• ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.

External links

• From ISO website
  • http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html -- The ISO 3166/MA-Secretariat
  • ISO 3166 and You
  • Implementations of ISO 3166-1
• http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/codes/country.htm -- Country codes
• Country Codes with comparision

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