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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.
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. ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of script ...
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 ...
This is a comparison of the IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166-1 three-letter codes, combined into one table for easy reference. Highlighted rows indicate those entries in which the three-letter codes differ from column to column.
The following is a list of current ISO 3166-3 codes, with the following columns: Former country name – English short country name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA) Former codes – ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric codes; Period of validity – Years when codes were officially assigned
ISO 3166-2, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code, defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces, states, departments, regions) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. ISO 3166-3, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; ISO 3166-1 numeric The list of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent data file is a plain text format describing the list of countries by continent , [ 1 ] suitable for automated processing.
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. Other ...