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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are also used to create the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold : internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN)
The list of names in Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division is based on the bulletin Country Names and other UN sources. Once a country name or territory name appears in either of these two sources, it will be added to ISO 3166-1 by default. The ISO 3166/MA may reserve code elements for other entities that do ...
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
3 Former countries, former country names and former country codes. 4 Notes. ... Including other lists of country three-letter-codes increases the number of ...
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
Country name: English short name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA) Year : Year when alpha-2 code was first officially assigned (1974, first edition of ISO 3166) ccTLD : Corresponding country code top-level domain (some are unassigned or inactive); exceptions where another ccTLD is assigned for the country are ...
List of countries by number of Internet users; List of countries by number of mobile phones in use; List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles; List of countries by number of telephone lines in use; List of countries by number of television broadcast stations; List of countries by smartphone penetration