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Officially assigned code elements. The following is a complete list of the 249 current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, with the following columns: Code: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, pointing to its ISO 3166-2 article; Country name: English short name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA)
The purpose of ISO 3166-2 is to establish an international standard of short and unique alphanumeric codes to represent the relevant administrative divisions and dependent territories of all countries in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than their full names. Each complete ISO 3166-2 code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen: [1]
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ISO 3166-2 establishes a code that represents the names of the principal administrative divisions, or similar areas, of the countries and entities included in ISO 3166-1. ISO 3166-3 establishes a code that represents non-current country names, i.e. the country names deleted from ISO 3166 since its first publication in 1974.
ISO 3166 has three parts: codes for countries, codes for subdivisions and formerly used codes (codes that were once used to describe countries but are no longer in use). The country codes can be represented either as a two-letter code (alpha-2) which is recommended as the general-purpose code, a three-letter code (alpha-3) which is more closely ...
The complete ISO 3166-1 list of countries and their assigned codes, listed in alphabetical order by the country's English short name used by the ISO 3166/MA: Each country's alpha-2 code is linked to more information about the assignment of its code elements.
Officially assigned code elements. The following is a complete list of the 249 current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, with the following columns: Code — ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code; Country name — English short country name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA)
ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states ). The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of ...
