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ISO 3166-1 defines an official short name in English. Official names of countries which are in a language other than English should not be used on the English Wikipedia. For example, Wikipedia has an article at France, which is the official short name in English of that country.
State of Palestine (official, English), מדינת פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (Medinat Pālēśtīnā) (Hebrew name), دَوْلَة فلسطين (Dawlat Filasṭīn) (official Arabic name), the Holy Land (ארץ הקודש, الأرض المقدسة) / Eretz Yisrael (ארץ ישראל) (Bible), فلسطين (Filasṭīn) (common name ...
This template is part of a series that resolves the country and subdivision names to ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2 codes, and vice versa. ISO 3166 defines names, two and three letter codes and code numbers for all countries and six character codes (the two letter country code followed by a dash and a two or three character subdivision code) for all top level subdivisions.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Place names; Wikipedia:Seven rules of place naming (humorous) List of country names in various languages; List of European regions with alternative names; Category:Vague or ambiguous geographic scope, for articles tagged as needing editing to conform to naming conventions
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.
Note: This only includes United Nations member states. For a complete listing, see List of United Nations member states#Current members.. Brackets were dropped for compatibility with {{Country data}}.
The label for the country: List of sovereign states; List of alternative country names; List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages; List of countries named after people; List of country-name etymologies; List of country names in various languages; List of countries that include United States in their name
Romania (Romanian: România [ro.mɨ'ni.a]) is a country in Central Europe. In cases where there is a thorough explanation of the official name, the official name in the lead sentence may be dropped, as long as it is explained later. This exception is illustrated in the article Canada and South Africa.