International Standards Organisation codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions, Part 1: Country codes (ISO 3166, 2006)
Classification Scheme Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Classification Scheme |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 454505 |
Registration status:![]() | Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |
Definition:![]() | The International Standard for country codes, Part one. |
Classification structure:![]() | The purpose of ISO 3166 is to establish codes for the representation of names of countries, territories or areas of geographical interest, and their subdivisions. Part 1: Country codes First published in 1974, it has since then become one of the world's most widely used standard solution for coding country names. It contains a two-letter code which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code which has better mnemonic properties and a numeric-3 code which can be useful if script independence of the codes is important. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use:![]() | There are three related documents which, taken together, make up ISO 3166; Part 1: Country codes, Part 2: Country subdivision code and Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries. ISO 3166-1 is by far the most important of the three standards and the only standard in scope for this classification scheme. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents:![]() | Maintenance Agency for International Standards Organisation (ISO) 3166 Country Codes 2006. International Standard for Country Codes. Geneva: ISO. Viewed 11 July 2011, http://www.iso.org/iso/ english_country_names_and_code_elements |
Relational attributes | |
Value Domains based on this classification scheme:![]() | Country code (ISO 3166) AA Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |