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The abbreviation is derived from Western Samoa, the country's former name until 1997. Currently for Samoa, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 11 districts. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is WS, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Samoa. The second part is two letters.
.ws is the Internet country code top-level domain for Samoa.It is administered by SamoaNIC, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Samoa.. The .ws domain is an abbreviation for "Western Samoa", which was the nation's official name in the 1970s when two-letter country codes were standardized.
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.
Samoa, [note 1] officially the Independent State of Samoa [note 2] and known until 1997 as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is an island country in Polynesia, consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nuʻutele, Nuʻulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).
BUR - IOC code for Burkina Faso [f] (since 1984) [g], and historical ISO and FIFA code for Burma [h] (until 1989) [i] 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]
The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. The standard is also known as DAFIF 0413 ed 7 Amdt. No. 3 (Nov 2003) and as DIA 65-18 ( Defense Intelligence Agency , 1994, "Geopolitical Data Elements and Related Features").
List of UNDP country codes. 3 languages. ... Western Samoa: Became Samoa in 1998 WFI
The .ws delegation was created on 14 July 1995 by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) according to the country's preexisting ISO 3166-1 two letter country code. [1] The top level domain is sponsored by the Samoan Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade. SamoaNIC is run by Computer Services Ltd, based in Apia. [2]