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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.
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 ...
The two-letter abbreviations are widely used, e.g. on car license plates and as disambiguator for localities on postal addresses if two localities in different cantons have the same name. They are also used with the prefix "CH-" as ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland , e.g. CH-SZ for the canton of Schwyz.
The alphabetic country codes were first included in ISO 3166 in 1974, and the numeric country codes were first included in 1981. The country codes have been published as ISO 3166-1 since 1997, when ISO 3166 was expanded into three parts, with ISO 3166-2 defining codes for subdivisions and ISO 3166-3 defining codes for former countries. [1]
It was used in the official seal from 1948. The abbreviation CH was first introduced in 1909, as international vehicle registration code, [5] and in 1974, it was assigned as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Switzerland.
Switzerland, [d] officially the Swiss Confederation, [e] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [f] [13] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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] YEM - historical ISO code for the North Yemen [l], became the generally accepted code for unified Yemen
ISO 3166-2:CH is the entry for Switzerland 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 or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.