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See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes. British Virgin Islands – See Virgin Islands (British). Burma – See Myanmar. Cape Verde – See Cabo Verde. Caribbean Netherlands – See Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. China, The Republic of – See Taiwan (Province of China). Democratic People's Republic of Korea – See Korea, The ...
ISO 3166-1. ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It is the first part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for ...
The United Nations uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO 3166, for international vehicle registration codes, which are codes used to identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate; some of these codes are currently indeterminately reserved in ISO 3166-1.
Country code. A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas. Its primary use is in data processing and communications. Several identification systems have been developed. The term country code frequently refers to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, as well as the telephone country code, which is embodied in the E ...
ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states). The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of ...
Notes ^ RC is Taiwan, VH is Hong Kong, VM is Macao Christmas Island (territory of Australia) ISO 3166-1 numeric 162 ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 CXR ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 CX ICAO airport code prefix YP E.164 code 61 IOC country code — Country code top-level domain.cx ICAO aircraft regis. prefix VH- E.212 mobile country code 505 NATO three-letter code CXR NATO two-letter code KT LOC MARC code XA ITU ...
Regional indicator symbol. The regional indicator symbols are a set of 26 alphabetic Unicode characters (A–Z) intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes in a way that allows optional special treatment. These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding ...
Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.