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Note GS1 member companies can manufacture products anywhere in the world, and can license prefixes from the GS1 organisation of their choice. GS1 prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given product.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are also used to create the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
List of country calling codes E.164; Mobile country code E.212; Maritime identification digits; List of ITU letter codes (radiocommunication division) UIC country code (International Union of Railways) List of GS1 country codes; List of NATO country codes; List of IOC country codes (International Olympic Committee)
GS1 is a not-for-profit, international organization developing and maintaining its own standards for barcodes and the corresponding issue company prefixes. The best known of these standards is the barcode , a symbol printed on products that can be scanned electronically.
These barcodes only represent the digits 0–9, unlike some other barcode symbologies which can represent additional characters. The most commonly used EAN standard is the thirteen-digit EAN-13 , a superset of the original 12-digit Universal Product Code (UPC-A) standard developed in 1970 by George J. Laurer . [ 1 ]
The list of names in Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division is based on the bulletin Country Names and other UN sources. Once a country name or territory name appears in either of these two sources, it will be added to ISO 3166-1 by default. The ISO 3166/MA may reserve code elements for other entities that do ...
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] YEM - historical ISO code for the North Yemen [l], became the generally accepted code for unified Yemen
Country identities may be encoded in the following coding systems: The initial digits of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) are group identifiers for countries, areas, or language regions. The first three digits of GS1 Company Prefixes used to identify products, for example, in barcodes, designate (national) numbering agencies.