ISO 3166 Country Codes

ISO 3166 is the most widely used standard for coding country names. Also, contains information on ISO 3166-3 for coding formerly used country names.

ISO 3166 uses a formal, two-letter code for coding names of countries and their subdivisions. ISO 3166-3 is the code for formerly used country names, uses 4-letter alphabetical codes (the first two of which were the original country code).

Reference URLs: 
ISO Main Page
ISO 3166
ISO 3166-3
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Posted November 30th, 2007 by kwalz
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