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Someone should add this [1] in? -- Kaihsu 08:52, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I've been converting a few of these massive ISO articles recently. Here's the program I used to convert this article:
// File: convert-iso3166-alpha-2.cpp // License: Public domain // Author: Ardonik #include <fstream> #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; void generate(istream& in, ostream& out) { out << "{| border=\"1px\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2px\"\n"; out << "|+ (Description) Two-letter Codes\n"; out << "|- style=\"background-color: #a0d0ff;\"\n"; out << "!Alpha-2!!Country\n"; out << "|-\n"; string line; while (getline(in, line)) { if (line.length() < 16) continue; string alpha2 = line.substr(2, 11); string country = line.substr(16); out << "|" << alpha2 << "||" << country << "\n"; out << "|-\n"; } out << "|}\n"; if (in.fail() && !in.eof()) cout << "Could not read from input\n"; if (out.fail()) cout << "Could not write to output\n"; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { if (argc != 3) { cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " [infile] [outfile]\n"; cout << " If infile is \"-\", input will be read from stdin.\n"; cout << " If outfile is \"-\", output will be written to stdout.\n"; return 0; } string infile = argv[1], outfile = argv[2]; if (infile == "-" && outfile == "-") { generate(cin, cout); } else if (infile == "-") { ofstream out(outfile.c_str()); generate(cin, out); } else if (outfile == "-") { ifstream in(infile.c_str()); generate(in, cout); } else { ifstream in(infile.c_str()); ofstream out(outfile.c_str()); generate(in, out); } return 0; }
To use it, simply copy a bulleted list from the old version of the page into a text file and run the program with the text file as the first argument and "-" as the second. Copy the resulting output and replace the old list with it.
The program's bigger than it ought to be, but I only had to run it once. --
Ardonik 01:36, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
Ok Surajkm.mishra121 ( talk) 11:04, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Can anybody explain why when these codes were handed out the United Kingdom was given GB instead of UK? Edward 11:36, 2005 May 14 (UTC)
GB
, as it is part of the United Kingdom. --
Zundark 13:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Now that Serbia and Montenegro have officially split, what codes are they going to get? Denelson 83 00:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
User:Millosh already added "SP" for Serbia in the table in the article, contradicting the footnote about Serbia and Montenegro. This "SP" is at best a guess, at this stage. I have manually reverted. If Millosh has insider information, please provide the reference. – Kaihsu 22:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
It is still quite a mess here; but I will leave it for others to sort out. – Kaihsu 22:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Serbia could always request CP, as in СРБИЈА... The three-letter code could then be CPJ or CPA. (Not a serious suggestion, but it would be interesting.) Lincmad 17:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Does Kosovo have a code yet? I've seen people using "KS" for it. Ptomblin ( talk) 03:46, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I am wondering why the French name for Ivory Coast is in the English language [Country name] column and then there is a English language comment in the [Notes] section that is used to describe the typical rational for the naming. If Côte d'Ivoire is in English then the note is superfluous as it already matches the [CI] code. If it is in French then I think the terms should swap places to be consistent with the rest of the table. Idyllic press ( talk) 06:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I see there has been some back-and-forth between listing .gb or .uk as the ccTLD for United Kingdom. I haven't been able to find a definitive statement, but I do note that IANA lists the sponsoring organization for .gb as "Reserved Domain - IANA" and does not list a registrar or whois server, [7] while it does list a sponsoring organization and a registrar and whois server for .uk. [8] It may be misleading to list ".gb" as the ccTLD when it is impossible to actually use it. Anomie ⚔ 23:49, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello all,
On December 15 the ISO 3166/MA deleted the Netherlands Antilles and added codes for Curacao and Sint Maarten. They also lumped Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius as "Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba" (for details, see [9]). The ISO's decoding table shows these new codes and it also shows AN as "transitionally reserved". (see here). With the choice of BQ for the other three islands, it seems that ISO has recycled the code that used to be assigned to the British Antarctic Territory until the late 70's (for details, see: [10]). I have updated the article to reflect all of this. Hope this helps. - Thanks, Hos hie 06:26, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
The Vatican City (= a state) is not the territory of the Holy See (= not a state at all). The later is a different entity of international law. -- 217.247.106.112 ( talk) 19:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
I was just doing a little work on the ISO 2 article... I noticed that Iso2 directs to this article, presumably because it defines two-letter ISO country codes. Would there be any objection to changing the redirect to point to the ISO 2 standard, which much more closely matches that as a possible search term? If this part of ISO 3166 is widely referred to as "ISO2", I certainly would not be against adding a "For two-letter ISO country codes, see ISO 3166-1 alpha-2" at the top of the ISO 2 article. Thoughts? -- Dfred ( talk) 23:19, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Why isn't Austria's (ie. Österreich=Oesterreich) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code OE?
I am aware that AT/AUT come from French "Autriche", since AU/AUS were already assigned to Australia, but if the UN assigned names based on their English or French names, then why isn't Germany's ISO3166 abbreviation GE/GER or AL or AM (from French Allemagne)? Germany received an abbreviation in its own language, but Austria didn't.
Many more countries have ISO 3166 codes based on their language, e.g. Spain - ES/ESP, Estonia - EE/EST, or Iceland - IS/ISL to name just a few. These ISO codes were created from the names of the countries as they appear in original language, not in English or French.
The oddity is that many people using these abbreviations daily find them counter-intuitive -- the AT/AUT ISO code is an acquired use rather than intuitive.
Of course, that applies to many other countries as well (for those that use the Latin alphabet).
Did anyone ask a country's native before assigning codes? Can the codes change or are they pretty much set in stone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.153.194.14 ( talk) 00:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
The code "DY" is listed under both the indeterminate reservations and the unreserved deleted codes. I'd think it should be removed from one of them. SiBr4 ( talk) 16:45, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Besides the codes currently transitionally reserved and two other codes currently exceptionally reserved (FX for France, Metropolitan and SU for USSR), the following alpha-2 codes have also been deleted from ISO 3166-1.
Does anyone here know/could anyone explain why the article states the code 'EH' for Western Sahara comes from the Spanish name 'Sahara Español'? Given the order in which those letters appear in the words (SaHara Español) it looks entirely arbitrary - it might just as well come from 'WEstern SaHara'. It's not like, for example, DEutschland or ESpaña. I realise asking here is extremely far-fetched, but I haven't so far managed to find a source that explains this. Even the ISO site simply states the code without any reference to its origin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.151.83.54 ( talk)
At the ISO website [11] the status of EZ and UN code is "Exceptionally reserved" not " Unassigned" Tennegi ( talk) 14:42, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Reference 17 doesn't seem to work anymore. Anyone know how to fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.75.60 ( talk) 20:37, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Anomie:, thanks for making some research, notes and correcting my mistake. In the first place I just changed status for SF, since it was only listed in the table for transitionally reserved codes. I have tried to search for some more information about it. I found some interesting facts, e.g. that it was indetermined reserved, [1] but I can't find anything about the change from transitionally reserved, so I have written an e-mail to the customer service at ISO. Let's see if they will provide an answer. / PatrikN ( talk) 21:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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The article contains "Furthermore, the code element OO is designated as an escape code if the number of regular user-assigned code elements is not sufficient." 85.180.125.5 ( talk) 13:51, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Could somebody clarify the exact definition of what EA is. The description of why it was assigned, suggests it should include everything within the EU, but outside the EU customs territory. But then its geographic description includes only Ceuta and Melilla, when based on the apparent reason it was assigned, you would expect it to also include the Canary Islands, Azores, etc. etc. - 2A01:4B00:86ED:7D00:5937:19CD:73D3:997E ( talk) 22:41, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
ES-CE
and ES-ML
, cf.
ISO 3166-2:ES.
Love —
LiliCharlie (
talk) 23:07, 27 October 2018 (UTC)@ Anomie: Oops, sorry about that; thanks for catching it. 209.209.238.189 ( talk) 02:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
I was trying to figure out why the colours in the table for the Officially assigned: formerly assigned to a different entity and the Unassigned: free for assignment were the same. It made it impossible to determine the difference in the table without mousing over to see if there was a link for the letters or not.
I suggest that using some contemporary colour vision deficiency theory it might be possible without causing any fuss or bother to other users to separate the colours slightly more.
I later noticed when looking at my monitor at a rather oblique angle that AI does look a little different from AH but does not make one think of BI when comparing the colours.
It would make sense to have the two Officially assigned colours almost the same as they carry a similar meaning in practice.
Idyllic press ( talk) 07:08, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Drmccreedy and LiliCharlie: Can you please explain what is your problem with having a column for the common names already there in the article? — Guarapiranga ( talk) 03:18, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
The problem with {{ ISO 3166 code}}, Anomie, is that when one needs to subst ISO codes in place of country names, one needs to subst twice (the first subst replaces {{ ISO 3166 code}} with #invoked for the Lua module, and on the 2nd subst the module often times out half way through, if the list of countries to subst is long (say, over 100). Perhaps you can suggest a better solution to this. Cheers. Guarapiranga ( talk) 01:10, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
<section>...</section>
. Why are you trying to subst 100 country names to ISO codes in the first place, instead of just typing the much shorter codes?
Anomie
⚔ 01:16, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
Where does the "w" comes from in Guinea-Bissau's two letter code? Corypight ( talk) 10:57, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Reference 13 claims it's a "ISO 3166-1 decoding table", but is a generic link to the ISO Online Browsing Platform (no subdocument linked or referenced). Does anyone have a better link? 141.135.100.90 ( talk) 10:34, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Why are there diacritics in the ISO names of Åland Islands, Saint Barthélemy, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, and Réunion, but not in São Tomé and Príncipe? August-54 ( talk) 18:31, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
The countries that use their full names in the UN are designated as such also by the ISO. It can be divided into two categories:
Category 1 – Four countries that are alphabetized under their short names in the UN General Assembly despite the use of long names
UN designation | ISO designation | Common name |
---|---|---|
Plurinational State of Bolivia | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Bolivia |
Islamic Republic of Iran | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Iran |
Federated States of Micronesia | Micronesia (Federated States of) | Federated States of Micronesia (abbreviated to FS Micronesia or FSM) |
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | Venezuela |
Category 2 – Five (previously six) countries that are alphabetized out of order (i.e. under their long names) in the UN General Assembly
UN designation | ISO designation | Common name |
---|---|---|
Democratic People's Republic of Korea | Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) | North Korea |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Democratic Republic of the Congo (abbreviated to DR Congo or DRC) or sometimes Congo-Kinshasa |
Republic of Korea | Korea, Republic of | South Korea |
Republic of Moldova | Moldova, Republic of | Moldova |
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (until February 2019, prior to the Prespa agreement and name change to North Macedonia) |
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of | Macedonia (WP article was under "Republic of Macedonia" before Prespa) |
United Republic of Tanzania | Tanzania, United Republic of | Tanzania |
This seems to be regular in that in the case of countries alphabetized according to the short name in the UN, a part of the formal name is in parentheses, and a comma is used for those which are alphabetized according to the long, formal name. North Korea is an odd case though. Why are parentheses used instead of a comma in North Korea's ISO name? August-54 ( talk) 12:42, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Several places are described, seemingly colloquially, as “belongs to”.
BV: “ Belongs to Norway”
CC, CX, HM, NF: “Belongs to Australia”
At least some of these could better be described as “External territory of Australia”. Does this column belong to wikipedia, or to ISO 3166? I.e., may I change it? JDAWiseman ( talk) 16:15, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
"Before the adoption of the macroregion code EU by ISO, CLDR also used QU to represent the European Union."
The source for 'macroregion code' of 'EU' should be cited explicitly. I'm trying to understand where this code is defined; which ISO for example?. Gezzas Man ( talk) 10:21, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Modified the rules in Section 2.2.4 so that "exceptionally reserved" ISO 3166-1 codes other than 'UK' were included into the registry. In particular, this allows the code 'EU' (European Union) to be used to form language tags or (more commonly) for applications that use the registry for region codes to reference this subtag.As for ISO, https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:EU notes that the ISO 3166 code was reserved at the request of ISO 4217/MA for ISO 6166.My guess it that the text is somewhat conflating the chain of "ISO 3166 exceptionally reserved code" → "BCP 47 region code" → "CLDR macroregion code" in using the CLDR terminology "macroregion". And probably also the dating, it seems that ISO 3166 probably reserved the code many years before RFC 5646 allowed BCP 47 to add it which allowed CLDR to switch to it. Anomie ⚔ 12:55, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
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Someone should add this [1] in? -- Kaihsu 08:52, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I've been converting a few of these massive ISO articles recently. Here's the program I used to convert this article:
// File: convert-iso3166-alpha-2.cpp // License: Public domain // Author: Ardonik #include <fstream> #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; void generate(istream& in, ostream& out) { out << "{| border=\"1px\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2px\"\n"; out << "|+ (Description) Two-letter Codes\n"; out << "|- style=\"background-color: #a0d0ff;\"\n"; out << "!Alpha-2!!Country\n"; out << "|-\n"; string line; while (getline(in, line)) { if (line.length() < 16) continue; string alpha2 = line.substr(2, 11); string country = line.substr(16); out << "|" << alpha2 << "||" << country << "\n"; out << "|-\n"; } out << "|}\n"; if (in.fail() && !in.eof()) cout << "Could not read from input\n"; if (out.fail()) cout << "Could not write to output\n"; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { if (argc != 3) { cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " [infile] [outfile]\n"; cout << " If infile is \"-\", input will be read from stdin.\n"; cout << " If outfile is \"-\", output will be written to stdout.\n"; return 0; } string infile = argv[1], outfile = argv[2]; if (infile == "-" && outfile == "-") { generate(cin, cout); } else if (infile == "-") { ofstream out(outfile.c_str()); generate(cin, out); } else if (outfile == "-") { ifstream in(infile.c_str()); generate(in, cout); } else { ifstream in(infile.c_str()); ofstream out(outfile.c_str()); generate(in, out); } return 0; }
To use it, simply copy a bulleted list from the old version of the page into a text file and run the program with the text file as the first argument and "-" as the second. Copy the resulting output and replace the old list with it.
The program's bigger than it ought to be, but I only had to run it once. --
Ardonik 01:36, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
Ok Surajkm.mishra121 ( talk) 11:04, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Can anybody explain why when these codes were handed out the United Kingdom was given GB instead of UK? Edward 11:36, 2005 May 14 (UTC)
GB
, as it is part of the United Kingdom. --
Zundark 13:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Now that Serbia and Montenegro have officially split, what codes are they going to get? Denelson 83 00:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
User:Millosh already added "SP" for Serbia in the table in the article, contradicting the footnote about Serbia and Montenegro. This "SP" is at best a guess, at this stage. I have manually reverted. If Millosh has insider information, please provide the reference. – Kaihsu 22:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
It is still quite a mess here; but I will leave it for others to sort out. – Kaihsu 22:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Serbia could always request CP, as in СРБИЈА... The three-letter code could then be CPJ or CPA. (Not a serious suggestion, but it would be interesting.) Lincmad 17:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Does Kosovo have a code yet? I've seen people using "KS" for it. Ptomblin ( talk) 03:46, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I am wondering why the French name for Ivory Coast is in the English language [Country name] column and then there is a English language comment in the [Notes] section that is used to describe the typical rational for the naming. If Côte d'Ivoire is in English then the note is superfluous as it already matches the [CI] code. If it is in French then I think the terms should swap places to be consistent with the rest of the table. Idyllic press ( talk) 06:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I see there has been some back-and-forth between listing .gb or .uk as the ccTLD for United Kingdom. I haven't been able to find a definitive statement, but I do note that IANA lists the sponsoring organization for .gb as "Reserved Domain - IANA" and does not list a registrar or whois server, [7] while it does list a sponsoring organization and a registrar and whois server for .uk. [8] It may be misleading to list ".gb" as the ccTLD when it is impossible to actually use it. Anomie ⚔ 23:49, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello all,
On December 15 the ISO 3166/MA deleted the Netherlands Antilles and added codes for Curacao and Sint Maarten. They also lumped Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius as "Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba" (for details, see [9]). The ISO's decoding table shows these new codes and it also shows AN as "transitionally reserved". (see here). With the choice of BQ for the other three islands, it seems that ISO has recycled the code that used to be assigned to the British Antarctic Territory until the late 70's (for details, see: [10]). I have updated the article to reflect all of this. Hope this helps. - Thanks, Hos hie 06:26, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
The Vatican City (= a state) is not the territory of the Holy See (= not a state at all). The later is a different entity of international law. -- 217.247.106.112 ( talk) 19:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
I was just doing a little work on the ISO 2 article... I noticed that Iso2 directs to this article, presumably because it defines two-letter ISO country codes. Would there be any objection to changing the redirect to point to the ISO 2 standard, which much more closely matches that as a possible search term? If this part of ISO 3166 is widely referred to as "ISO2", I certainly would not be against adding a "For two-letter ISO country codes, see ISO 3166-1 alpha-2" at the top of the ISO 2 article. Thoughts? -- Dfred ( talk) 23:19, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Why isn't Austria's (ie. Österreich=Oesterreich) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code OE?
I am aware that AT/AUT come from French "Autriche", since AU/AUS were already assigned to Australia, but if the UN assigned names based on their English or French names, then why isn't Germany's ISO3166 abbreviation GE/GER or AL or AM (from French Allemagne)? Germany received an abbreviation in its own language, but Austria didn't.
Many more countries have ISO 3166 codes based on their language, e.g. Spain - ES/ESP, Estonia - EE/EST, or Iceland - IS/ISL to name just a few. These ISO codes were created from the names of the countries as they appear in original language, not in English or French.
The oddity is that many people using these abbreviations daily find them counter-intuitive -- the AT/AUT ISO code is an acquired use rather than intuitive.
Of course, that applies to many other countries as well (for those that use the Latin alphabet).
Did anyone ask a country's native before assigning codes? Can the codes change or are they pretty much set in stone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.153.194.14 ( talk) 00:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
The code "DY" is listed under both the indeterminate reservations and the unreserved deleted codes. I'd think it should be removed from one of them. SiBr4 ( talk) 16:45, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Besides the codes currently transitionally reserved and two other codes currently exceptionally reserved (FX for France, Metropolitan and SU for USSR), the following alpha-2 codes have also been deleted from ISO 3166-1.
Does anyone here know/could anyone explain why the article states the code 'EH' for Western Sahara comes from the Spanish name 'Sahara Español'? Given the order in which those letters appear in the words (SaHara Español) it looks entirely arbitrary - it might just as well come from 'WEstern SaHara'. It's not like, for example, DEutschland or ESpaña. I realise asking here is extremely far-fetched, but I haven't so far managed to find a source that explains this. Even the ISO site simply states the code without any reference to its origin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.151.83.54 ( talk)
At the ISO website [11] the status of EZ and UN code is "Exceptionally reserved" not " Unassigned" Tennegi ( talk) 14:42, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Reference 17 doesn't seem to work anymore. Anyone know how to fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.75.60 ( talk) 20:37, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Anomie:, thanks for making some research, notes and correcting my mistake. In the first place I just changed status for SF, since it was only listed in the table for transitionally reserved codes. I have tried to search for some more information about it. I found some interesting facts, e.g. that it was indetermined reserved, [1] but I can't find anything about the change from transitionally reserved, so I have written an e-mail to the customer service at ISO. Let's see if they will provide an answer. / PatrikN ( talk) 21:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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The article contains "Furthermore, the code element OO is designated as an escape code if the number of regular user-assigned code elements is not sufficient." 85.180.125.5 ( talk) 13:51, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Could somebody clarify the exact definition of what EA is. The description of why it was assigned, suggests it should include everything within the EU, but outside the EU customs territory. But then its geographic description includes only Ceuta and Melilla, when based on the apparent reason it was assigned, you would expect it to also include the Canary Islands, Azores, etc. etc. - 2A01:4B00:86ED:7D00:5937:19CD:73D3:997E ( talk) 22:41, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
ES-CE
and ES-ML
, cf.
ISO 3166-2:ES.
Love —
LiliCharlie (
talk) 23:07, 27 October 2018 (UTC)@ Anomie: Oops, sorry about that; thanks for catching it. 209.209.238.189 ( talk) 02:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
I was trying to figure out why the colours in the table for the Officially assigned: formerly assigned to a different entity and the Unassigned: free for assignment were the same. It made it impossible to determine the difference in the table without mousing over to see if there was a link for the letters or not.
I suggest that using some contemporary colour vision deficiency theory it might be possible without causing any fuss or bother to other users to separate the colours slightly more.
I later noticed when looking at my monitor at a rather oblique angle that AI does look a little different from AH but does not make one think of BI when comparing the colours.
It would make sense to have the two Officially assigned colours almost the same as they carry a similar meaning in practice.
Idyllic press ( talk) 07:08, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Drmccreedy and LiliCharlie: Can you please explain what is your problem with having a column for the common names already there in the article? — Guarapiranga ( talk) 03:18, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
The problem with {{ ISO 3166 code}}, Anomie, is that when one needs to subst ISO codes in place of country names, one needs to subst twice (the first subst replaces {{ ISO 3166 code}} with #invoked for the Lua module, and on the 2nd subst the module often times out half way through, if the list of countries to subst is long (say, over 100). Perhaps you can suggest a better solution to this. Cheers. Guarapiranga ( talk) 01:10, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
<section>...</section>
. Why are you trying to subst 100 country names to ISO codes in the first place, instead of just typing the much shorter codes?
Anomie
⚔ 01:16, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
Where does the "w" comes from in Guinea-Bissau's two letter code? Corypight ( talk) 10:57, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Reference 13 claims it's a "ISO 3166-1 decoding table", but is a generic link to the ISO Online Browsing Platform (no subdocument linked or referenced). Does anyone have a better link? 141.135.100.90 ( talk) 10:34, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Why are there diacritics in the ISO names of Åland Islands, Saint Barthélemy, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, and Réunion, but not in São Tomé and Príncipe? August-54 ( talk) 18:31, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
The countries that use their full names in the UN are designated as such also by the ISO. It can be divided into two categories:
Category 1 – Four countries that are alphabetized under their short names in the UN General Assembly despite the use of long names
UN designation | ISO designation | Common name |
---|---|---|
Plurinational State of Bolivia | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Bolivia |
Islamic Republic of Iran | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Iran |
Federated States of Micronesia | Micronesia (Federated States of) | Federated States of Micronesia (abbreviated to FS Micronesia or FSM) |
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | Venezuela |
Category 2 – Five (previously six) countries that are alphabetized out of order (i.e. under their long names) in the UN General Assembly
UN designation | ISO designation | Common name |
---|---|---|
Democratic People's Republic of Korea | Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) | North Korea |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Democratic Republic of the Congo (abbreviated to DR Congo or DRC) or sometimes Congo-Kinshasa |
Republic of Korea | Korea, Republic of | South Korea |
Republic of Moldova | Moldova, Republic of | Moldova |
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (until February 2019, prior to the Prespa agreement and name change to North Macedonia) |
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of | Macedonia (WP article was under "Republic of Macedonia" before Prespa) |
United Republic of Tanzania | Tanzania, United Republic of | Tanzania |
This seems to be regular in that in the case of countries alphabetized according to the short name in the UN, a part of the formal name is in parentheses, and a comma is used for those which are alphabetized according to the long, formal name. North Korea is an odd case though. Why are parentheses used instead of a comma in North Korea's ISO name? August-54 ( talk) 12:42, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Several places are described, seemingly colloquially, as “belongs to”.
BV: “ Belongs to Norway”
CC, CX, HM, NF: “Belongs to Australia”
At least some of these could better be described as “External territory of Australia”. Does this column belong to wikipedia, or to ISO 3166? I.e., may I change it? JDAWiseman ( talk) 16:15, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
"Before the adoption of the macroregion code EU by ISO, CLDR also used QU to represent the European Union."
The source for 'macroregion code' of 'EU' should be cited explicitly. I'm trying to understand where this code is defined; which ISO for example?. Gezzas Man ( talk) 10:21, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Modified the rules in Section 2.2.4 so that "exceptionally reserved" ISO 3166-1 codes other than 'UK' were included into the registry. In particular, this allows the code 'EU' (European Union) to be used to form language tags or (more commonly) for applications that use the registry for region codes to reference this subtag.As for ISO, https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:EU notes that the ISO 3166 code was reserved at the request of ISO 4217/MA for ISO 6166.My guess it that the text is somewhat conflating the chain of "ISO 3166 exceptionally reserved code" → "BCP 47 region code" → "CLDR macroregion code" in using the CLDR terminology "macroregion". And probably also the dating, it seems that ISO 3166 probably reserved the code many years before RFC 5646 allowed BCP 47 to add it which allowed CLDR to switch to it. Anomie ⚔ 12:55, 9 June 2024 (UTC)