ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof.

• ISO 3166-1 codes for country and dependent area names, first published in 1974\n**ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 the famous two-letter country codes \n**ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes\n**ISO 3166-1 numeric three-digit country codes \n*ISO 3166-2 defines codes for the principal subdivisions of a country or dependent area. \n**ISO 3166-2:2000-06-21 Newsletter I-1\n**ISO 3166-2:2002-05-21 Newsletter I-2\n**ISO 3166-2:2002-08-20 Newsletter I-3\n**ISO 3166-2:2002-12-10 Newsletter I-4\n**ISO 3166-2:2003-09-05 Newsletter I-5\n**ISO 3166-2:2004-03-08 Newsletter I-6\n*ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.

External links

\n* From ISO website\n** http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html -- The ISO 3166/MA-Secretariat\n** ISO 3166 and You\n** Implementations of ISO 3166-1\n* http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/codes/country.htm -- Country codes\n* Country Codes with comparison Category:ISO standards\nCategory:Geocodes \n\n\n\n\nzh-cn:ISO 3166/简\nzh-tw:ISO 3166/繁