ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof.
- ISO 3166-1 codes for country and dependent area names, first published in 1974
- ISO 3166-2 defines codes for the principal subdivisions of a country or dependent area.
- ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.
See also
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
Federal Information Processing Standard
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