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A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
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.
As of 20 May 2017, there were 255 country-code top-level domains, purely in the Latin alphabet, using two-character codes. As of June 2022 [update] , the number was 316, with the addition of internationalized domains.
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 ...
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").
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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.