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The letters CP or C.P. are often written in front of the postcode. This is not a country code, but simply an abbreviation for "code postal". Serbia: 1 January 2005 RS: NNNNN Poštanski adresni kod (PAK) Seychelles: SC: no codes Sierra Leone: SL: no codes Sint Maarten: SX: no codes Singapore: 6 March 1950 SG: NN Singapore: 1 July 1979 SG: NNNN ...
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.
The alphabetic country codes were first included in ISO 3166 in 1974, and the numeric country codes were first included in 1981. The country codes have been published as ISO 3166-1 since 1997, when ISO 3166 was expanded into three parts, with ISO 3166-2 defining codes for subdivisions and ISO 3166-3 defining codes for former countries. [1]
Postal codes in the United States (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Postal codes by country" ... Postal codes in Panama; ZIP codes in the Philippines;
A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan [1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [ 2 ] ( zipping along ) when senders use the code in the postal address .
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are the most widely used of the three, and used most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains (with a few exceptions). ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes.
BUR - IOC code for Burkina Faso [f] (since 1984) [g], and historical ISO and FIFA code for Burma [h] (until 1989) [i] In the following cases, a code for a historical country or territory matches a modern code of the country it merged into: VNM - historical IOC and ISO code for South Vietnam [j], became the ISO code for unified Vietnam [k]
The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. The standard is also known as DAFIF 0413 ed 7 Amdt. No. 3 (Nov 2003) and as DIA 65-18 ( Defense Intelligence Agency , 1994, "Geopolitical Data Elements and Related Features").