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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 ...
Littoral South Asia or Maritime South Asia is the region of the Indian subcontinent which borders the Indian Ocean. It includes the South Asian republics of Bangladesh , India , and Pakistan , as well as the South Asian island countries of the Maldives and Sri Lanka .
ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country code) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
From Serbian name "Srbija i Crna Gora". Split into Montenegro and Serbia. Coincided with ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. SE Saorstát Éireann: 1938 EIR (IRL from 1962) Under GB until 1924. Name changed to Éire, now Ireland: SF Finland: 1993 FIN SF from "Suomi – Finland" (the names of the country in its official languages, Finnish and Swedish) SHS
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
Indonesia is the world's largest island country by area (1,904,569 km 2), and by total number of islands (17,504 islands). [4] It is also the world's most populous island country, with a population of over 270 million (the fourth most populous country in the world, after India, China, and the United States).
South Asia has a total area of 5.2 million sq.km (2 million sq.mi), which is 10% of the Asian continent. [30] The population of South Asia is estimated to be 2.04 billion [8] or about one-fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world. [31]
The Maldives, [d] officially the Republic of Maldives, [e] and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland.