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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.
According to Nigerian Senator David Mark on a delegation visit to China in May 2014, there are about 10,000 Nigerians living in China. [2] Nigerians are concentrated in Guangzhou, a city in the Guangdong province with a large population of Africans. [1] Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria Gu Xiaojie in 2015 stated Nigerians are the largest African ...
By 2020, various estimates have came up for the number of Africans living in China. One source estimated 500,000+ Africans living in China with majority living in Guangzhou. [ 1 ] Other source puts the number at 16,000 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou, puts the official number of Africans living in Guangzhou as 4553 in 2020.
China, along with West-European countries, were unfavorable to a global freeze of Nigerian assets. [9] In 2004 and again in 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao made state visits to Nigeria and addressed a joint session of the National Assembly of Nigeria. Both nations signed a memorandum of understanding on establishing a strategic partnership. [10]
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
The United Nations uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO 3166, for international vehicle registration codes, which are codes used to identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate; some of these codes are currently indeterminately reserved in ISO 3166-1.
Africans in Guangzhou are African immigrants and African Chinese residents of Guangzhou, China.. Beginning in the late 1990s economic boom, an influx of thousands of African traders and business people, predominantly from West Africa, arrived in Guangzhou and created an African community in the middle of the southern Chinese metropolis. [2]
Officially recognized ethnic groups receive or have received certain benefits over Han Chinese under the regional ethnic autonomy system, including affirmative action, exemptions from the one-child policy, designated seats in political organs and government support to preserve their culture.