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ISO 3166-3 – Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries [4] defines codes for country names which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 since its first publication in 1974.
The predecessor codes for country names were developed outside ISO for various purposes. They turned out to be very useful for commerce and communications, but the different lists were not consistent and did not always match. The first ISO country codes were published in ISO 3166:1974.
The alphabetic country codes were first included in ISO 3166 in 1974, and the numeric country codes were first included in 1981. The country codes have been published as ISO 3166-1 since 1997, when ISO 3166 was expanded into three parts, with ISO 3166-2 defining codes for subdivisions and ISO 3166-3 defining codes for former countries.
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It consists of three parts: 1. ISO 3166-1, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes, defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It defines three sets of country codes: 1.1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which ar...
The first edition of ISO 3166, which included only alphabetic country codes, was published in 1974. The second edition, published in 1981, also included numeric country codes, with the third and fourth editions published in 1988 and 1993 respectively. The fifth edition, published between 1997 and 1999, was expanded into three parts to include codes...
The ISO 3166 standard is maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA), located at the ISO central office in Geneva. Originally it was located at the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) in Berlin. Its principal tasks are: 1. To add and to eliminate country names and to assign code elements to them; 2. To publish lists of country name...
Country codes beginning with "X" are used for private custom use (reserved), never for official codes. Despite the words "private custom", the use may include other public standards. ISO affirms that no country code beginning with X will ever be standardised.[a]Examples of X codes include: 1. The ISO 3166-based NATO country codes (STANAG 1059, 9th ...
ISO 3166-1 establishes codes that represent the current names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest, on the basis of country names obtained from the United Nations.
ISO 3166 was first published in 1974.
The following is a complete ISO 3166-1 encoding code list in alphabetical order by the English short country names officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA), which uses country names from United Nations sources. [3] . The table includes officially assigned codes only. Reserved and user-assigned code elements.
