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This is a list of heritage NATO country codes.Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph [1]) to each of its member and non-member countries. These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations ( AFC , CAF , CONCACAF , CONMEBOL , OFC and UEFA ) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
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; Including other lists of country three-letter-codes increases the number of ambiguities. For example:
ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
South Africa: the Republic of South Africa: UN member ZA: ZAF: 710: ISO 3166-2:ZA.za South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: United Kingdom: GS: SGS: 239: ISO 3166-2:GS.gs South Korea – See Korea, The Republic of. South Sudan: the Republic of South Sudan: UN member SS: SSD: 728: ISO 3166-2 ...
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are used most prominently in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports, as standardized by the International Civil Aviation Organization, with a number of additional codes for special passports; some of these codes are currently reserved and not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.
This is a list of FIPS 10-4 country codes for Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions.. The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook.
South Korea, [c] officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), [d] is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan.