ISO 3166

ISO 3166 "is the International Standard for country codes and codes for their subdivisions." (ISO)

It has several parts and is used for coding countries and territories. "ISO-3166 alpha-2" consists of two letter country codes. These are used in various contexts including in defining locale data and country code top-level domains (ccTLD).

References & links

• International Organization for Standardization
  • "Country Codes - ISO 3166," http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm
  • "Online Browsing Platform https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#search (select "Country codes" in left sidebar & language at top of page)
• Wikipedia
  • EN "ISO 3166," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166
  • EN "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
  • FR "ISO 3166," http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166
  • FR "ISO 3166-1," http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

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