The list of names in Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division is based on the bulletin Country Names and other UN sources. A party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice.A member of one of its specialized agencies.To be listed in the bulletin Country Names, a country must be at least one of the following: Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division.United Nations Terminology Bulletin Country Names, or.According to the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA), the only way to enter a new country name into ISO 3166-1 is to have it registered in one of the following two sources: 4.2 Reserved and user-assigned code elementsĬurrently 249 countries, territories, or areas of geographical interest are assigned official codes in ISO 3166-1.Other country codes used by many international organizations are partly or totally incompatible with ISO 3166-1, although some of them closely correspond to ISO 3166-1 codes. However, it is not the only standard for country codes. Īs a widely used international standard, ISO 3166-1 is implemented in other standards and used by international organizations to allow facilitation of the exchange of goods and information.
The country codes have been published as ISO 3166-1 since 1997, when ISO 3166 was expanded into three parts, with ISO 3166-2 defining codes for subdivisions and ISO 3166-3 defining codes for former countries. The alphabetic country codes were first included in ISO 3166 in 1974, and the numeric country codes were first included in 1981. 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 scripts.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 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).It is the first part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization. ISO 3166-1 ( Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
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