ISO 3166-1:2006 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes
| Title | ISO 3166-1:2006 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Authors | for Standardization, IO |
| City | Geneva |
| Publisher | ISO |
| Edition | 2 |
| Short Title | ISO 3166-1:2006 |
| Abstract | ISO 3166-1:2006 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes which is what most users know as ISO's country codes. First published in 1974, it is has since then become one of the world's most popular and most widely used standard solution for coding country names. It contains a two-letter code which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code which has better mnenomic properties and a numeric-3 code which can be useful if script independence of the codes is important. |
| URL | http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39719 |
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