ISO 3166-1 country code
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Latest revision as of 18:40, 10 October 2016
The ISO 3166-1 standard defines three types of codes to identify a country, or similar geographic division.
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[edit] Two-letter country code
Examples of two-letter country codes are "US" for the United States, "UY" for Uruguay, and "UZ" for Uzbekistan.
One use of two-letter country codes is as top level domain names.
[edit] Three-letter country code
Examples are "USA" for the United States, "URY" for Uruguay, and "UZB" for Uzbekistan.
[edit] Numeric country code
Numeric codes have three digits, including leading zeroes.
Examples are 840 for the United States, 858 for Uruguay, and 860 for Uzbekistan.
