Country code

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1. The term country code frequently refers to international dialing codes, the E.164 country calling codes.

Contents

ISO 3166-1

This standard defines for most of the countries and dependent areas in the world:

The two-letter codes are used as the basis for some other codes or applications, for example,

For more applications see ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Other country codes

The developers of ISO 3166 intended that in time it would replace other coding systems in existence.

Other codings

The following can represent countries:

Lists of country codes by country

A - B - C - D-E - F - G - H-I - J-K - L - M - N - O-R - S - T - U-Z

See also

References

Ref#1 point to non-existent source with HTTP30X code.

  1. ^ Federal Register, September 2, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 170), page 51276
  2. ^ UNECE.org

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