Welcome to our website. It is generaly simplier version of wikipedia. You will find there selected articles. Enjoy!
ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code. It was first published in 1998.
The purpose of ISO 3166-2 is to establish an international standard of short alphanumeric codes to represent any administrative division of a country in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than its full name. Each ISO 3166-2 code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country, and the second part is a string of up to three alphanumeric characters. The second part is usually obtained from national sources and stems from coding systems already in use in the country concerned. There are currently around 4200 different codes.
ISO 3166-1 is not the only standard for region codes. Examples of other region codes used by other international organizations include:
For a complete list of all ISO 3166-2 codes, see either of the following:
The format and structure of the codes are different for each country. Some of the codes are developed by ISO 3166/MA; these are copyrighted. Others are already in use in the specific countries.
Changes to ISO 3166-3 are announced in newsletters by ISO 3166/MA. These mostly comprise addition of new subdivisions and spelling corrections. Since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998, nine newsletters have been released:
The second edition of ISO 3166-2 (ISO 3166-2:2007) was published on 2007-12-15, which comprised a consolidation of all changes from the first edition (ISO 3166-2:1998) as published in the newsletters from I-1 to I-9.
|
|||||||||||