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NATO in 2024. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal ...
The Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme was established in 1994 and is based on individual bilateral relations between each partner country and NATO: each country may choose the extent of its participation. [166] Members include all current and former members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. [167]
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.
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
Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations – list of alpha-3 and numeric codes (a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list) The World Factbook (public domain), Central Intelligence Agency Appendix D – Country Data Codes – comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166, and STANAG 1059 country codes
BIMSTEC, a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia around the Bay of Bengal to promote technological and economic co-operation, which includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. BRIC: Brazil, Russia, India, and China, which are all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development
NATO Joint Military Symbology is the NATO standard for military map symbols. Originally published in 1986 as Allied Procedural Publication 6 ( APP-6 ), NATO Military Symbols for Land Based Systems , the standard has evolved over the years and is currently in its fifth version (APP-6D).