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The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country code) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
The ISO 3166-1 code for the United Kingdom is GB (for Great Britain). UK is an exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 code. However, the creation of the .uk TLD predates the ISO 3166-1 list of ccTLDs and is the primary TLD for the United Kingdom. [69] Nominet UK: Yes: Yes: Yes 24 July 1985.us United States of America: United States
The ISO 3166 codes are used by the United Nations and for Internet top-level country code domains. Non-sovereign entities are in italics. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard.
Code taken from Great Britain (from official name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) [16] Previous ISO country name: United Kingdom.uk is the primary ccTLD of the United Kingdom instead of .gb [17] (see code UK, which is exceptionally reserved) GD: Grenada: 1974.gd: GE: Georgia: 1992.ge: GE previously represented Gilbert and ...
ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GBNI) in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal divisions and subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. [1]
The envisaged format was a six-character alphanumeric code with three letters designating the geographical area and three numbers to identify the individual address. [10] On 28 July Ernest Marples , the Postmaster General , announced that Norwich had been selected, and that each of the 150,000 private and business addresses would receive a code ...
They were largely borrowed from the FIPS 10-4 codes mentioned below. In 2003 the eighth edition of the Standardisation Agreement (STANAG) adopted the ISO 3166 three-letter codes with one exception (the code for Macedonia). With the ninth edition, NATO is transitioning to four- and six-letter codes based on ISO 3166 with a few exceptions and ...