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The FIPS standard includes both the codes for independent countries (similar but often incompatible with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard) and the codes for top-level subdivision of the countries (similar to but usually incompatible with the ISO 3166-2 standard). The ISO 3166 codes are used by the United Nations and for Internet top-level ...
G GCA United Kingdom (Non-metropolitan) – Region 1 GCC United Kingdom – Region 3 GIB Gibraltar: GRL Greenland: GUF Guiana (French Department of) GUM Guam: H HKG Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) HMD Heard and McDonald Islands: HWA Hawaii (State of) HWL Howland Island: I ICO Cocos (Keeling) Islands: J JAR Jarvis Island
Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any languages that are predominant or official, or ...
The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman). The French terminations -ois / -ais serve as both the singular and plural masculine; adding e (-oise / -aise) makes them singular feminine; es (-oises / -aises) makes them plural feminine.
Used for the Refugee Olympic Team, for athletes who have been displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016. [10] EUA United Team of Germany from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne: 1956–1964
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 ...
ISO 3166-1:2013 Archived 2014-03-04 at the Wayback Machine: 2013-11-19: Third edition of ISO 3166-1 (changes are published in the online catalogue Archived 2022-10-21 at the Wayback Machine of ISO only and no newsletters are published anymore) ISO 3166-1:2020 Archived 2020-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: 2020-08: Fourth edition of ISO 3166-1
These countries are considered major European powers and they are the Western European countries individually represented as full members of the G7, the G8, the G-10 and the G20. This also has an impact on the Eurovision Song Contest, when these countries added to Spain, are turned the BIG 5.