ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 is a list of codes for the names of countries and dependent territories which published by the International Organization of Standardization.It has three sets of country codes, namely:
- ISO 3166-1 numeric, a three-digit numerical system, with script (writing system) independence, therefore it is useful for people or systems which uses non-Latin script. This identical codes defined by the United Nations Statistics Division.
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a two-letter system, used in many applications, most prominently for country code top-level domains (ccLTDs), with some exceptions.
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, a three-letter system, which allows better visual association between country name and code element than the alpha-2 code.
ISO 3166 has included alphabetical country codes since its first edition in 1974 and followed by numeric ones in 1981, the second edition. ISO 3166-1 was published in 1997 as the fifth edition of ISO 3166.
However, ISO 3166-1 is not the only standard for country codes. Many international organizations use their own country codes, where some of them closely correspond to the ISO 3166-1 codes.
Attachments: uYP_country%2520codes.pdf
