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ISO 3166-1
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ISO 3166-1
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ISO 3166-1
is part of the
ISO 3166
standard
published by the
International Organization for Standardization
(ISO), and defines
codes
for the names of
countries
,
dependent territories
, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is
Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes
. It defines three sets of
country codes
:
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
– two-letter country codes which are the most widely used of the three, and used most prominently for the
Internet
's
country code top-level domains
(with a few exceptions).
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
– three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes.
ISO 3166-1 numeric
– three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the
United Nations Statistics Division
, with the advantage of script (
writing system
) independence, and hence useful for people or systems using non-
Latin
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