ISO 3166-1 is allotment of the ISO 3166 accepted appear by the All-embracing Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for the names of countries, abased territories, and appropriate areas of bounded interest. The official name of the accepted is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Allotment 1: Country codes. It defines three sets of country codes:
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are the a lot of broadly acclimated of the three, and acclimated a lot of noticeably for the Internet's country cipher top-level domains (with a few exceptions).
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which acquiesce a bigger beheld affiliation amid the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes.
ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of Software (writing system) independence, and appropriately advantageous for humans or systems application non-Latin scripts.
The alphabetic country codes were aboriginal included in ISO 3166 in 1974, and the numeric country codes were aboriginal included in 1981. The country codes accept been appear as ISO 3166-1 back 1997, if ISO 3166 was broadcast into three locations to cover codes for subdivisions and above countries.
As a broadly acclimated all-embracing standard, ISO 3166-1 is implemented in added standards and acclimated by all-embracing organizations, to acquiesce abetment of the barter of appurtenances and information However, it is not the alone accepted for country codes. Added country codes acclimated by abounding all-embracing organizations are partly or absolutely adverse with ISO 3166-1, although some of them carefully accord to ISO 3166-1 codes.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are the a lot of broadly acclimated of the three, and acclimated a lot of noticeably for the Internet's country cipher top-level domains (with a few exceptions).
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which acquiesce a bigger beheld affiliation amid the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes.
ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of Software (writing system) independence, and appropriately advantageous for humans or systems application non-Latin scripts.
The alphabetic country codes were aboriginal included in ISO 3166 in 1974, and the numeric country codes were aboriginal included in 1981. The country codes accept been appear as ISO 3166-1 back 1997, if ISO 3166 was broadcast into three locations to cover codes for subdivisions and above countries.
As a broadly acclimated all-embracing standard, ISO 3166-1 is implemented in added standards and acclimated by all-embracing organizations, to acquiesce abetment of the barter of appurtenances and information However, it is not the alone accepted for country codes. Added country codes acclimated by abounding all-embracing organizations are partly or absolutely adverse with ISO 3166-1, although some of them carefully accord to ISO 3166-1 codes.
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