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It was established in 1968, by President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, at the initiative of his wife, the First Lady, Cecilia de la Fuente de Lleras, through the "Cecilia" law. [4] [5] The ICBF currently has 33 regional headquarters and 215 zonal centers.
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.
ISO 3166-2:CO is the entry for Colombia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces, states or departments) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Republic of Colombia Huila: 1910 Province of Neiva 1610 Crown of Castile La Guajira: 1965 Province of Riohacha 1789 Kingdom of Spain Magdalena: 1824 Province of Santa Marta 1533 Crown of Castile Meta: 1959 Intendancy of Meta 1905 Republic of Colombia Nariño: 1910 Province of Pasto 1823 Republic of Colombia Norte de Santander: 1910
The postal codes are 6 digit numeric. The first two digits are the numbers used by DANE to encode the departments, the next two in the range of 00 to 89 encode postal zones, followed by the last two encoding up to 100 postal districts.
Telephone numbers in Colombia; Location; Country: Colombia: Continent: South America: Access codes; Country code +57: International access: 00 followed by 1 or 3 digit carrier code: Long-distance: 0 followed by 1 or 3 digit carrier code
In 1886, Colombia was reorganized into a unitary republic (i.e. present-day Republic of Colombia), by abolishing the states and dividing the country into somewhat less autonomous departments with their own departmental governments; some of which were modelled after former states.
The demographics of Colombia consist of statistics regarding Colombians' health, economic status, religious affiliations, ethnicity, population density, and other aspects of the population. Colombia is the second-most populous country in South America after Brazil , and the third-most populous in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico .