ISO 3166

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ISO 3166 is a three-part 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
• ISO 3166-2 defines codes for the principal subdivisions of a country or dependent area.
  • ISO 3166-2:2000-06-21 Newsletter I-1
  • ISO 3166-2:2002-05-21 Newsletter I-2
  • ISO 3166-2:2002-08-20 Newsletter I-3
  • ISO 3166-2:2002-12-10 Newsletter I-4
• ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.

External links

• http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html -- The ISO 3166/MA-Secretariat

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "ISO 3166" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166 August 13, 2003