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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.
It defines three sets of country codes: [1] ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are 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 ...
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are used most prominently in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports, as standardized by the International Civil Aviation Organization, with a number of additional codes for special passports; some of these codes are currently reserved and not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.
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]
International call out: 00N (where N is the carrier code) followed by the distant country code and telephone number. Calling into Korea: +82 XX XXXX YYYY. The leading "0" is dropped when dialling into South Korea from abroad. Some 1566/1577/1588 telephone numbers cannot be dialed from abroad. Domestic long-distance call: 0NN (where NN is the ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: two-letter code; ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: three-letter code; ISO 3166-1 numeric: three-digit code; The two-letter codes are used as the basis for other codes and applications, for example, for ISO 4217 currency codes; with deviations, for country code top-level domain names (ccTLDs) on the Internet: list of Internet TLDs.
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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.