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Iso 3166-1

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Afghanistan
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Albania
Albania ( , , Gheg Albanian: Shqipnia/Shqypnia), officially known as the Republic of Albania (, pronounced ), is a country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which links the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea.
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Algeria
http://wn.com/Algeria
Andorra
Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra (), also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, (), is a small country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of and an estimated population of 83,888 in 2009. Its capital, Andorra la Vella, is the highest capital city in Europe, being at an elevation of 1023 metres. The official language is Catalan, although Spanish, French, and Portuguese are also commonly spoken.
http://wn.com/Andorra
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (, ; ), is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city. The exclave province of Cabinda has a border with the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
http://wn.com/Angola
Anguilla
Anguilla ( ) is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, approximately long by wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population. The island's capital is The Valley. The total land area of the territory is , with a population of approximately 13,500 (2006 estimate).
http://wn.com/Anguilla
Antarctica
Antarctica
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Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda (; Spanish for "ancient" and "bearded") is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands). Separated by a few sea miles, the group is in the middle of the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, roughly at 17 degrees north of the Equator. Being a former part of the British Empire has strongly influenced the country's governance, language, and culture.
http://wn.com/Antigua_and_Barbuda
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
http://wn.com/Argentina
Armenia
http://wn.com/Armenia
Aruba
http://wn.com/Aruba
Australia
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
http://wn.com/Austria
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan ( ; ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (), is one of the six independent Turkic states in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south.
http://wn.com/Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bahrain, officially Kingdom of Bahrain (, , literally: "Kingdom of the Two Seas"), is a small island country in the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. While Bahrain is an archipelago of thirty-three islands, the largest (Bahrain Island) is long by wide. Saudi Arabia lies to the west and is connected to Bahrain via the King Fahd Causeway, which was officially opened on 25 November 1986. Qatar is to the southeast across the Gulf of Bahrain.
http://wn.com/Bahrain
Bangladesh
http://wn.com/Bangladesh
Barbados
Barbados ()or (Bar-bay-dos) is an island nation of the Lesser Antilles, in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic Ocean and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and north-east of Venezuela. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.
http://wn.com/Barbados
Belarus
Belarus, ( ; , ), officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Viciebsk). Forty percent of its is forested, and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.
http://wn.com/Belarus
Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
http://wn.com/Belgium
Belize
Belize () (formerly British Honduras), is a democratic constitutional monarchy, and the northernmost Central American nation. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Although Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official language. Belize is bordered by Mexico to its north, by Guatemala to its south and west, and by the Caribbean Sea to the east.
http://wn.com/Belize
Benin
Benin (), officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located. The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, but the seat of government is located in the country's largest city of Cotonou. Benin covers an area of approximately 110,000 square kilometers (42,000 sq mi), with a population of approximately 8.8 million. Benin is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation, highly dependent on agriculture, with substantial employment and income arising from subsistence farming.
http://wn.com/Benin
Bermuda
Bermuda (; officially, the Bermudas or Somers Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida. Its capital city is Hamilton but the largest municipality is the town of Saint George's.
http://wn.com/Bermuda
Bhutan
The Kingdom of Bhutan () (Dzongkha: ; Wylie: '' 'drug yul; Tibetan pinyin: ''), is a small landlocked country in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China . Bhutan is separated from the nearby state of Nepal to the west by the Indian state of Sikkim, and from Bangladesh to the south by West Bengal.
http://wn.com/Bhutan
Bolivia
Bolivia (), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, (, ) is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile and Peru to the west.
http://wn.com/Bolivia
Botswana
The Republic of Botswana () is a sub Saharan country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" (singular: Motswana). Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966. It has held free and fair democratic elections since independence.
http://wn.com/Botswana
Bouvet Island
http://wn.com/Bouvet_Island
Brazil
Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
http://wn.com/Brazil
Brunei
http://wn.com/Brunei
Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
http://wn.com/Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
http://wn.com/Burkina_Faso
Cambodia
http://wn.com/Cambodia
Cameroon
http://wn.com/Cameroon
Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
http://wn.com/Canada
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde (; , ; ) is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 15 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa. The islands, covering a combined area of slightly over , are of volcanic origin and while three of them (Sal, Boa Vista and Maio) are fairly flat, sandy and dry, the remaining ones are generally rockier and have more vegetation. Due to the infrequent occurrence of rainfall the overall landscape is not particularly green, as the country's name suggests (verde is Portuguese for "green"). The name of the country stems instead from the nearby Cap Vert, on the Senegalese coast.
http://wn.com/Cape_Verde
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands ( or ) is a British Overseas Territory located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica. It is considered a part of the geographic Western Caribbean Zone. The territory is a major offshore financial centre in the Caribbean.
http://wn.com/Cayman_Islands
Chad
http://wn.com/Chad
Chile
http://wn.com/Chile
China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
http://wn.com/China
Christmas Island
The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
http://wn.com/Christmas_Island
Colombia
Colombia (), officially the Republic of Colombia (, ), is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime borders with Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico, the United States, and Spain.
http://wn.com/Colombia
Comoros
this is an island with to people on it
http://wn.com/Comoros
Cook Islands
http://wn.com/Cook_Islands
Costa Rica
:For the plant genus Costarica, see its synonym Sicyos.
http://wn.com/Costa_Rica
Croatia
Croatia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska ), is a country in Central Europe and Southeastern Europe at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, and the Adriatic Sea. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. Croatia borders Slovenia to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the southeast, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast.
http://wn.com/Croatia
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
http://wn.com/Cuba
Curaçao
http://wn.com/Curaçao
Cyprus
http://wn.com/Cyprus
Czech Republic
http://wn.com/Czech_Republic
Côte d'Ivoire
The Republic of (; ), commonly known in English as Ivory Coast, is a country in West Africa. It has an area of 322,462 km2, and borders the countries of Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population which was 15,366,672 in 1998, was estimated to be 20,617,068 in 2009.
http://wn.com/Côte_d'Ivoire
Denmark
http://wn.com/Denmark
Djibouti
http://wn.com/Djibouti
Dominica
Dominica, ( ) officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. To the north-northwest lies Guadeloupe, to the southeast Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth of Dominica has an estimated population of 72,500. The capital is Roseau.
http://wn.com/Dominica
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (; , ) is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries. Both by area and population, the Dominican Republic is the second largest Caribbean nation (after Cuba), with and an estimated 10 million people.
http://wn.com/Dominican_Republic
East Timor
http://wn.com/East_Timor
Ecuador
http://wn.com/Ecuador
Egypt
http://wn.com/Egypt
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , literally meaning "Republic of The Savior") is the smallest and also the most densely populated country in Central America. It borders the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras. It lies on the Gulf of Fonseca, as do Honduras and Nicaragua further south.
http://wn.com/El_Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
http://wn.com/Equatorial_Guinea
Eritrea
http://wn.com/Eritrea
Ethiopia
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Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located approximately from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago, consisting of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands, is a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland.
http://wn.com/Falkland_Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (, ) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Great Britain and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland.
http://wn.com/Faroe_Islands
Fiji
Fiji (; ), officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands (; ), is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 2000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its more immediate neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north. Fiji has had inhabitants since the second millennium B.C. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch and the British explored Fiji.Fiji was a British colony up until 1970; British occupation lasted almost a century. Because of the abundance of forest, mineral, and fish resources, Fiji is one of the most developed economies in the Pacific island realm. Today, the main sources of foreign exchange are its tourist industry and sugar exports. The country's currency is the Fijian dollar.
http://wn.com/Fiji
Finland
Finland (pronounced ), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden on the west, Norway on the north and Russia on the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
http://wn.com/Finland
France
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http://wn.com/France
French Polynesia
French Polynesia (, ) is a French overseas collectivity in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory (Papeete). Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007.
http://wn.com/French_Polynesia
Gabon
http://wn.com/Gabon
Georgia (country)
http://wn.com/Georgia_(country)
Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
http://wn.com/Germany
Ghana
http://wn.com/Ghana
Gibraltar
Gibraltar () is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean, overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory itself is a peninsula of whose isthmus connects to the north with Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the area and gives its name to the densely populated town, home to almost 30,000 Gibraltarians.
http://wn.com/Gibraltar
Greece
http://wn.com/Greece
Greenland
Greenland ( meaning "Land of the Kalaallit people"; ) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Physiographically, it is a part of the continent of North America. The largest island in Greenland is also named Greenland, and makes up most of the country's land area.
http://wn.com/Greenland
Grenada
Grenada () is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
http://wn.com/Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (; ; Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres (629 sq. mi) and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic since 2007.
http://wn.com/Guadeloupe
Guam
http://wn.com/Guam
Guatemala
http://wn.com/Guatemala
Guernsey
The Bailiwick of Guernsey ( ; , ) is a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.
http://wn.com/Guernsey
Guinea
http://wn.com/Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (; , ) is located in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west.
http://wn.com/Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Guyana ( ), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is a state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana has been a former colony of the British, Dutch and for a brief period, the French. It is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America, and is also a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which has its secretariat headquarters in Guyana's capital, Georgetown. Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966 and became a Republic on 23 February 1970.
http://wn.com/Guyana
Haiti
Haiti (; French , ; Haitian Creole: Ayiti, ), officially the Republic of Haiti ( ;
http://wn.com/Haiti
Honduras
Honduras (, , ) is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
http://wn.com/Honduras
Hong Kong
Hong Kong () is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. Situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
http://wn.com/Hong_Kong
Hungary
http://wn.com/Hungary
Iceland
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http://wn.com/Iceland
India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
http://wn.com/India
Indonesia
Indonesia ( or ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With a population of around 238 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies.
http://wn.com/Indonesia
Iran
Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
http://wn.com/Iran
Iraq
Iraq ( or , Arabic: ), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:
http://wn.com/Iraq
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (; , ), otherwise known simply as Mann (, ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is represented by a Lieutenant Governor. The island is not part of the United Kingdom, but its foreign relations and defence are the responsibility of the UK Government. Although it does not usually interfere in the island's domestic matters, its "good government" is the ultimate responsibility of the Crown (i.e., in practice, the Government of the United Kingdom).
http://wn.com/Isle_of_Man
Israel
http://wn.com/Israel
Italy
http://wn.com/Italy
Jamaica
http://wn.com/Jamaica
Japan
http://wn.com/Japan
Jersey
http://wn.com/Jersey
Jordan
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http://wn.com/Jordan
Kazakhstan
http://wn.com/Kazakhstan
Kenya
The Republic of Kenya (pronounced ) is a country in East Africa. Lying along the Indian Ocean to its southeast and at the equator, Kenya is bordered by Somalia to the northeast, Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west and Tanzania to the south. Lake Victoria is to the southwest and is shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya has numerous wildlife reserves, containing thousands of animal species. The capital city is Nairobi. Kenya's area is 580,000 km2 with a population of nearly 39 million which is diverse: more than 40 different ethnic groups are present. The country is named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and second among Africa's highest mountain peaks.
http://wn.com/Kenya
Kiribati
Kiribati ( ; ), officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) straddling the equator, and bordering the International Date Line at its easternmost point.
http://wn.com/Kiribati
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait (, Dawlat al-Kuwayt) is a sovereign Arab nation situated in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, and Iraq to the north. It lies on the northwestern shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the Arabic "akwat", the plural of "kout", meaning fortress built near water. The emirate covers an area of 17,820 square kilometres (6,880 sq mi) and has a population of about 2.7 million.
http://wn.com/Kuwait
Laos
Laos (, , or ), officially the '''Lao People's Democratic Republic''', is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west.
http://wn.com/Laos
Latvia
Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia () is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers and it has a temperate seasonal climate.
http://wn.com/Latvia
Lebanon
Lebanon ( or ; ; ), officially the Republic of Lebanon (Arabic: ; French: ), is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south. Lebanon's location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has dictated its rich history, and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity.
http://wn.com/Lebanon
Lesotho
http://wn.com/Lesotho
Liberia
http://wn.com/Liberia
Libya
http://wn.com/Libya
Liechtenstein
http://wn.com/Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Lithuania (, U.S. usually ; ), officially the Republic of Lithuania () is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest.
http://wn.com/Lithuania
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (, , ), is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (999 sq mi).
http://wn.com/Luxembourg
Macau
Macau (), also spelled Macao () is, along with Hong Kong one of China's two special administrative regions. It lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east and south.
http://wn.com/Macau
Madagascar
Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic, French: ), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world.
http://wn.com/Madagascar
Malawi
The Republic of Malawi (; Chichewa ) is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size is over with an estimated population of more than 13,900,000. Its capital is Lilongwe, the second largest city is Blantyre and the third large city is Mzuzu. The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area.
http://wn.com/Malawi
Malaysia
Malaysia (pronounced or ) is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of . The country is separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (also known as West and East Malaysia respectively). Malaysia shares land borders with Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei and has maritime boundaries with Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population as of 2009 stood at over 28 million.
http://wn.com/Malaysia
Maldives
http://wn.com/Maldives
Mali
http://wn.com/Mali
Malta
Malta , officially the Republic of Malta (), is a southern European country and consists of an archipelago situated centrally in the Mediterranean, 93 km south of Sicily and 288 km east of Tunisia, with the Strait of Gibraltar 1,826 km to the west and Alexandria 1,510 km to the east.
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Marshall Islands
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) , is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. The population is about 62,000. In 1986 independence was attained under a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
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Martinique
Martinique () is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados. As with the other overseas departments, Martinique is one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic. The Island was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1502.
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Mauritania
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Mauritius
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Mayotte
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova (Moldovan/) is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldovan SSR in 1991, as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. A strip of Moldova's internationally recognized territory on the east bank of the river Dniester has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990.
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Monaco
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Mongolia
Mongolia (; ) is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to about 38% of the population. Mongolia's political system is a parliamentary republic.
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Montenegro
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Montserrat
Montserrat () is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It measures approximately 16 km (10 miles) long and 11 km (7 miles) wide, giving of coastline. Christopher Columbus gave Montserrat its name on his second voyage to the New World in 1493, after Montserrat mountain located in Catalonia. Montserrat is nicknamed the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean, both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish descent of its inhabitants.
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Morocco
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Mozambique
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (, ), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990 following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
http://wn.com/Namibia
Nauru
Nauru ( ), officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 km to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest island nation, covering just .
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Netherlands
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Netherlands Antilles
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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New Caledonia
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New Zealand
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua ( ) officially the Republic of Nicaragua (, ), is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of the country, the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone. Falling within the tropics, Nicaragua sits between 11 degrees and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot. The capital city of Nicaragua is Managua. Roughly one quarter of the nation's population lives in the Nicaraguan capital, making it the second largest city and metropolitan area in Central America (following Guatemala City).
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Niger
Niger ( or ; ), officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, over 80 percent of which is covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of just above 15,000,000 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The capital city is Niamey.
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Nigeria
Nigeria (), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice traditional religion.
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Niue
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Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norfuk Ailen ) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance. Together with two neighbouring islands, it forms one of Australia's external territories.
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North Korea
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Norway
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Oman
Oman (pronounced ; '), officially the Sultanate of Oman''' ( ), is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates on the northwest, Saudi Arabia on the west and Yemen on the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the southeast and the Gulf of Oman on the northeast. The country also contains Madha and Musandam, two exclaves on the Gulf of Oman, south of the Strait of Hormuz and surrounded by the United Arab Emirates on the land side.
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Pakistan
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Palau
Palau , officially the Republic of Palau (), is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) south of Tokyo. Having emerged from United Nations trusteeship (administered by the United States) in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and smallest sovereign states. In English, the name is sometimes spelled Belau in accordance with the native pronunciation. It was formerly also spelled Pelew.
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Panama
Panama (), officially the Republic of Panama (; ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital is Panama City.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea ( , also or ; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini) (PNG), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in a region defined since the early 19th century as Melanesia. The capital is Port Moresby.
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Paraguay
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Philippines
The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Pitcairn Islands
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Portugal
Portugal (, ), officially the Portuguese Republic (; ), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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Puerto Rico
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Qatar
Qatar ( ; ; local pronunciation: ), also known as the State of Qatar or locally , is an Arab country, known officially as an emirate, in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south; otherwise, the Persian Gulf surrounds the state. A strait of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island nation of Bahrain.
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Republic of China
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia located off the east coast of mainland China. Subject to an ongoing dispute with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that has left it with limited formal diplomatic relations, the government of the Republic of China currently governs the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (, , , ), described as the Republic of Ireland (), is a state in northwest Europe with a population of almost 4.5 million people. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional republic occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned into two jurisdictions in 1921. It is bordered to the northeast by Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Sea to the east, St George's Channel to the southeast, and the Celtic Sea to the south.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Rwanda
The Republic of Rwanda (, , or in English, or in Kinyarwanda) is a unitary republic of central and eastern Africa. It borders Uganda to the north; Tanzania to the east; Burundi to the south; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Rwanda is landlocked but is noted for its lakes, particularly Lake Kivu, which occupies the floor of the Rift Valley along most of the country's western border. Although close to the equator, the country has a temperate climate due to its high elevation, with the highest point being Mount Karisimbi. The terrain consists of mountains and gently rolling hills, with plains and swamps in the east. Abundant wildlife, including rare mountain gorillas, have led to a fast-growing tourism sector. The largest cities in Rwanda are Kigali, Gitarama, and Butare. Unlike many African countries, Rwanda is home to only one significant ethnic and linguistic group, the Banyarwanda. The country is well known for its native styles of dance, particularly the Intore dance, and for its drummers. Kinyarwanda, English and French are the official languages.
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Réunion
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Saint Barthélemy
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Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia (; ) is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 (238 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 160,000. Its capital is Castries. The island nation has been the home of two Nobel laureates, Arthur Lewis and Derek Walcott. It is the nation with the second most such honorees per capita after Faroe Islands.
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Samoa
Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa and German Samoa, is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in Polynesia, Savai'i. The capital city Apia and Faleolo International Airport are situated on the island of Upolu.
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San Marino
San Marino, officially the Most Serene Republic of San Marino ( ; ), is a country situated on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave, in Italy. Its size is just over with an estimated population of almost 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino. One of the European microstates, along with Liechtenstein, the Vatican, Monaco, Andorra, and Malta, San Marino has the smallest population of all the members of the Council of Europe.
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Saudi Arabia
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Senegal
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Serbia
Serbia (pronounced: ), officially the Republic of Serbia (), is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central- and Southeastern Europe, covering the southern lowlands of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; its border with Albania is disputed. Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, is among the most populous in Southeastern Europe.
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Seychelles
Seychelles ( ; French: ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (; Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone () (Krio: Sa Lone), officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has a population estimated at 6.5 million. It is a former British Colony and now a constitutional republic comprising three provinces and the Western Area; which are further divided into fourteen districts.
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Singapore
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Slovakia
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Slovenia
Slovenia ( ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (, ), is a country in Central Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy on the west, the Adriatic Sea on the southwest, Croatia on the south and east, Hungary on the northeast, and Austria on the north. The capital and largest city of Slovenia is Ljubljana.
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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands ) is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of 28,400 square kilometres (10,965 sq mi). The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal. The nation of the Solomon Islands is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Somalia
Somalia ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Somalia (, ) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under communist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Ethiopia to the west. With the longest coastline on the continent, its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, , ) and sometimes referred to simply as Korea, is a state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of .
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South Sudan
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Sri Lanka
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (commonly known as Sri Lanka (, , or ); ; , ) is a country and a sovereign state off souther coast of the Indian subcontinent. A island nation in South Asia, it was till 1972 known as Ceylon (, , or ). Sri Lanka is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
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Sudan
Sudan (), officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and tenth largest in the world by area. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east,Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. The world's longest river, the Nile, divides the country between east and west sides.
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Suriname
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Swaziland
The Kingdom of Swaziland (Umbuso weSwatini), sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique. The nation, as well as its people, are named after the 19th century king Mswati II.
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Sweden
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Switzerland
Switzerland (, , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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Syria
Syria ( ; ' or '), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, also known (especially in the past) as Formosa (from , "Beautiful Island"), is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It comprises most (99%) of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" is also a common name to refer to the entire country of the Republic of China.
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (, Jumhurii Tojikiston; , Respublika Tadzhikistan; Jomhuri-ye Tajikestan), is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east. Tajikistan also lies adjacent to Pakistan and the Gilgit-Baltistan region, separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor.
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Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania (; phonetical: tan-zann-ei-a; or sometimes tan-zanneia; ) is a country in central East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.
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Thailand
Thailand ( or ; Ratcha Anachak Thai, ), formerly Siam (, ), is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
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The Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets (rocks). It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States (nearest to the state of Florida). Its total land area is ; slightly larger than the US states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined), with an estimated population of 330,000. Its capital is Nassau. Geographically, the Bahamas lie in the same island chain as Cuba, Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, the designation of the Bahamas refers normally to the commonwealth and not the geographic chain.
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The Gambia
The Republic of the Gambia, commonly known as the Gambia, or Gambia, is a country in Western Africa. The Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, bordered to the north, east, and south by Senegal, with a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west.
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Togo
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Tokelau
Tokelau () is a territory of New Zealand that consists of three tropical coral atolls with a combined land area of 10 km2 and a population of approximately 1,400 in the South Pacific Ocean. The atolls lie north of the Samoan Islands, east of Tuvalu, south of the Phoenix Islands, southwest of the more distant Line Islands (both islands groups belonging to Kiribati) and northwest of the Cook Islands.
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Tonga
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Trinidad and Tobago
The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago () is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. It shares maritime boundaries with other nations including Barbados to the northeast, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west.
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Tunisia
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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Turkmenistan
The Turkmenistan (), also known as Turkmenia () is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR). Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, Uzbekistan to the east and northeast, Kazakhstan to the north and northwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.
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Tuvalu
Tuvalu ( or ), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. It comprises four reef islands and five true atolls. Its population of 12,373 makes it the second-least populous sovereign state in the world, with only Vatican City having fewer inhabitants. In terms of physical land size, at just Tuvalu is the fourth smallest country in the world, larger only than the Vatican City at , Monaco at and Nauru at .
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Uganda
The Republic of Uganda ( or ) is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which is also bordered by Kenya and Tanzania.
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Ukraine
Ukraine ( ; , transliterated: , ), with its area of 603,628 km2, is the second largest country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast respectively.
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United Arab Emirates
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Uruguay
Uruguay (, ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (sometimes rendered as the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in the English language; , ), is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.4 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area. An estimated 88% of the population are of European descent.
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Uzbekistan
http://wn.com/Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.
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Vatican City
http://wn.com/Vatican_City
Venezuela
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Vietnam
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A map of Europe, with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes in place of the names of countries and other territories.

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes. It defines three sets of country codes:^[1]

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).
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 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.

The alphabetic country codes were first included in ISO 3166 in 1974, and the numeric country codes were first included in 1981. The country codes have been published as ISO 3166-1 since 1997, when ISO 3166 was expanded into three parts to include codes for subdivisions and former countries.^[2]

As a widely used international standard, ISO 3166-1 is implemented in other standards and used by international organizations,^[3] to allow facilitation of the exchange of goods and information.^[4] However, it is not the only standard for country codes. Other country codes used by many international organizations are partly or totally incompatible with ISO 3166-1,^[5] although some of them closely correspond to ISO 3166-1 codes.

1 Criteria for inclusion
2 Naming and code construction
3 Information included
4 Current codes
- 4.1 Officially assigned code elements
- 4.2 Reserved and user-assigned code elements
5 Changes
6 See also
7 References
8 Sources and external links

Criteria for inclusion [link]

Currently 249 countries, territories, or areas of geographical interest are assigned official codes in ISO 3166-1. 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:^[6]

United Nations Terminology Bulletin Country Names, or
Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division.

To be listed in the bulletin Country Names, a country must be at least one of the following:

A member state of the United Nations
A member of one of its specialized agencies
A party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice

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.

Once a country name or territory name appears in either of these two sources, it will be added to ISO 3166-1 by default.

The ISO 3166/MA may reserve code elements for other entities that do not qualify for inclusion based on the above criteria. For example, because the European Union is not a country, it is not formally included in ISO 3166-1, but for practical reasons, the ISO 3166/MA has "reserved the two-letter combination EU for the purpose of identifying the European Union within the framework of ISO 3166-1".^[7]

Naming and code construction [link]

The country names used in ISO 3166-1 are taken from the two UN sources mentioned above. Some country names used by the UN, and accordingly by ISO, are subject to dispute:

The Republic of Macedonia is listed as "Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of" because of the Macedonia naming dispute, following the provisional reference used by the United Nations.

The islands of Taiwan is listed as "Taiwan, Province of China" because of its political status within the United Nations: The UN does not recognize the Republic of China which governs Taiwan and considers the territory to be part of the People's Republic of China.^[7] In 2007, the Republic of China filed a lawsuit before a Swiss civil court against the ISO, arguing that the ISO's use of the UN name rather than "Republic of China (Taiwan)" violates Taiwan's name rights.^[8] On 9 September 2010, a panel of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland decided, by three votes to two, to dismiss the suit as presenting a political question not subject to Swiss civil jurisdiction.^[9]^[10]^[11]

The codes are chosen, according to the ISO 3166/MA, "to reflect the significant, unique component of the country name in order to allow a visual association between country name and country code".^[7] For this reason, common components of country names like "Republic", "Kingdom", "United", "Federal" or "Democratic" are normally not used for deriving the code elements. As a consequence, for example, the United Kingdom is officially assigned the alpha-2 code GB rather than UK, based on its official name "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (although UK is reserved on the request of the United Kingdom). Some codes are chosen based on the native names of the countries. For example, Germany is assigned the alpha-2 code DE, based on its native name "Deutschland".

Information included [link]

ISO 3166-1 is published officially in both English and French. Since the second edition of ISO 3166-1, the following columns are included for each entry:

COUNTRY NAME English (or French) short name
English (or French) short name lower case
English (or French) full name
Alpha-2 code
Alpha-3 code
Numeric code
Remarks
Independent (# denotes the country is considered a sovereign state)
Additional information: Administrative language(s) alpha-2 code element(s)
Additional information: Administrative language(s) alpha-3 code element(s)
Additional information: Local short name(s)

Current codes [link]

Officially assigned code elements [link]

The following is a complete ISO 3166-1 encoding list of the countries which are assigned official codes. It is listed in alphabetical order by the English short country name used by the ISO 3166/MA.^[12]

Click on the button in the header to sort each column. For more information on each country and the assignment of its code elements, click on its alpha-2 code.

ISO English country names (short name and lower case)	Alpha-2 code	Alpha-3 code	Numeric code	ISO 3166-2 codes
Afghanistan	`AF`	`AFG`	`004`	ISO 3166-2:AF
Aland Islands ! Åland Islands	`AX`	`ALA`	`248`	ISO 3166-2:AX
Albania	`AL`	`ALB`	`008`	ISO 3166-2:AL
Algeria	`DZ`	`DZA`	`012`	ISO 3166-2:DZ
American Samoa	`AS`	`ASM`	`016`	ISO 3166-2:AS
Andorra	`AD`	`AND`	`020`	ISO 3166-2:AD
Angola	`AO`	`AGO`	`024`	ISO 3166-2:AO
Anguilla	`AI`	`AIA`	`660`	ISO 3166-2:AI
Antarctica	`AQ`	`ATA`	`010`	ISO 3166-2:AQ
Antigua and Barbuda	`AG`	`ATG`	`028`	ISO 3166-2:AG
Argentina	`AR`	`ARG`	`032`	ISO 3166-2:AR
Armenia	`AM`	`ARM`	`051`	ISO 3166-2:AM
Aruba	`AW`	`ABW`	`533`	ISO 3166-2:AW
Australia	`AU`	`AUS`	`036`	ISO 3166-2:AU
Austria	`AT`	`AUT`	`040`	ISO 3166-2:AT
Azerbaijan	`AZ`	`AZE`	`031`	ISO 3166-2:AZ
Bahamas	`BS`	`BHS`	`044`	ISO 3166-2:BS
Bahrain	`BH`	`BHR`	`048`	ISO 3166-2:BH
Bangladesh	`BD`	`BGD`	`050`	ISO 3166-2:BD
Barbados	`BB`	`BRB`	`052`	ISO 3166-2:BB
Belarus	`BY`	`BLR`	`112`	ISO 3166-2:BY
Belgium	`BE`	`BEL`	`056`	ISO 3166-2:BE
Belize	`BZ`	`BLZ`	`084`	ISO 3166-2:BZ
Benin	`BJ`	`BEN`	`204`	ISO 3166-2:BJ
Bermuda	`BM`	`BMU`	`060`	ISO 3166-2:BM
Bhutan	`BT`	`BTN`	`064`	ISO 3166-2:BT
Bolivia, Plurinational State of	`BO`	`BOL`	`068`	ISO 3166-2:BO
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	`BQ`	`BES`	`535`	ISO 3166-2:BQ
Bosnia and Herzegovina	`BA`	`BIH`	`070`	ISO 3166-2:BA
Botswana	`BW`	`BWA`	`072`	ISO 3166-2:BW
Bouvet Island	`BV`	`BVT`	`074`	ISO 3166-2:BV
Brazil	`BR`	`BRA`	`076`	ISO 3166-2:BR
British Indian Ocean Territory	`IO`	`IOT`	`086`	ISO 3166-2:IO
Brunei Darussalam	`BN`	`BRN`	`096`	ISO 3166-2:BN
Bulgaria	`BG`	`BGR`	`100`	ISO 3166-2:BG
Burkina Faso	`BF`	`BFA`	`854`	ISO 3166-2:BF
Burundi	`BI`	`BDI`	`108`	ISO 3166-2:BI
Cambodia	`KH`	`KHM`	`116`	ISO 3166-2:KH
Cameroon	`CM`	`CMR`	`120`	ISO 3166-2:CM
Canada	`CA`	`CAN`	`124`	ISO 3166-2:CA
Cape Verde	`CV`	`CPV`	`132`	ISO 3166-2:CV
Cayman Islands	`KY`	`CYM`	`136`	ISO 3166-2:KY
Central African Republic	`CF`	`CAF`	`140`	ISO 3166-2:CF
Chad	`TD`	`TCD`	`148`	ISO 3166-2:TD
Chile	`CL`	`CHL`	`152`	ISO 3166-2:CL
China	`CN`	`CHN`	`156`	ISO 3166-2:CN
Christmas Island	`CX`	`CXR`	`162`	ISO 3166-2:CX
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	`CC`	`CCK`	`166`	ISO 3166-2:CC
Colombia	`CO`	`COL`	`170`	ISO 3166-2:CO
Comoros	`KM`	`COM`	`174`	ISO 3166-2:KM
Congo	`CG`	`COG`	`178`	ISO 3166-2:CG
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	`CD`	`COD`	`180`	ISO 3166-2:CD
Cook Islands	`CK`	`COK`	`184`	ISO 3166-2:CK
Costa Rica	`CR`	`CRI`	`188`	ISO 3166-2:CR
Cote d'Ivoire ! Côte d'Ivoire	`CI`	`CIV`	`384`	ISO 3166-2:CI
Croatia	`HR`	`HRV`	`191`	ISO 3166-2:HR
Cuba	`CU`	`CUB`	`192`	ISO 3166-2:CU
Curaçao	`CW`	`CUW`	`531`	ISO 3166-2:CW
Cyprus	`CY`	`CYP`	`196`	ISO 3166-2:CY
Czech Republic	`CZ`	`CZE`	`203`	ISO 3166-2:CZ
Denmark	`DK`	`DNK`	`208`	ISO 3166-2:DK
Djibouti	`DJ`	`DJI`	`262`	ISO 3166-2:DJ
Dominica	`DM`	`DMA`	`212`	ISO 3166-2:DM
Dominican Republic	`DO`	`DOM`	`214`	ISO 3166-2:DO
Ecuador	`EC`	`ECU`	`218`	ISO 3166-2:EC
Egypt	`EG`	`EGY`	`818`	ISO 3166-2:EG
El Salvador	`SV`	`SLV`	`222`	ISO 3166-2:SV
Equatorial Guinea	`GQ`	`GNQ`	`226`	ISO 3166-2:GQ
Eritrea	`ER`	`ERI`	`232`	ISO 3166-2:ER
Estonia	`EE`	`EST`	`233`	ISO 3166-2:EE
Ethiopia	`ET`	`ETH`	`231`	ISO 3166-2:ET
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	`FK`	`FLK`	`238`	ISO 3166-2:FK
Faroe Islands	`FO`	`FRO`	`234`	ISO 3166-2:FO
Fiji	`FJ`	`FJI`	`242`	ISO 3166-2:FJ
Finland	`FI`	`FIN`	`246`	ISO 3166-2:FI
France	`FR`	`FRA`	`250`	ISO 3166-2:FR
French Guiana	`GF`	`GUF`	`254`	ISO 3166-2:GF
French Polynesia	`PF`	`PYF`	`258`	ISO 3166-2:PF
French Southern Territories	`TF`	`ATF`	`260`	ISO 3166-2:TF
Gabon	`GA`	`GAB`	`266`	ISO 3166-2:GA
Gambia	`GM`	`GMB`	`270`	ISO 3166-2:GM
Georgia	`GE`	`GEO`	`268`	ISO 3166-2:GE
Germany	`DE`	`DEU`	`276`	ISO 3166-2:DE
Ghana	`GH`	`GHA`	`288`	ISO 3166-2:GH
Gibraltar	`GI`	`GIB`	`292`	ISO 3166-2:GI
Greece	`GR`	`GRC`	`300`	ISO 3166-2:GR
Greenland	`GL`	`GRL`	`304`	ISO 3166-2:GL
Grenada	`GD`	`GRD`	`308`	ISO 3166-2:GD
Guadeloupe	`GP`	`GLP`	`312`	ISO 3166-2:GP
Guam	`GU`	`GUM`	`316`	ISO 3166-2:GU
Guatemala	`GT`	`GTM`	`320`	ISO 3166-2:GT
Guernsey	`GG`	`GGY`	`831`	ISO 3166-2:GG
Guinea	`GN`	`GIN`	`324`	ISO 3166-2:GN
Guinea-Bissau	`GW`	`GNB`	`624`	ISO 3166-2:GW
Guyana	`GY`	`GUY`	`328`	ISO 3166-2:GY
Haiti	`HT`	`HTI`	`332`	ISO 3166-2:HT
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	`HM`	`HMD`	`334`	ISO 3166-2:HM
Holy See (Vatican City State)	`VA`	`VAT`	`336`	ISO 3166-2:VA
Honduras	`HN`	`HND`	`340`	ISO 3166-2:HN
Hong Kong	`HK`	`HKG`	`344`	ISO 3166-2:HK
Hungary	`HU`	`HUN`	`348`	ISO 3166-2:HU
Iceland	`IS`	`ISL`	`352`	ISO 3166-2:IS
India	`IN`	`IND`	`356`	ISO 3166-2:IN
Indonesia	`ID`	`IDN`	`360`	ISO 3166-2:ID
Iran, Islamic Republic of	`IR`	`IRN`	`364`	ISO 3166-2:IR
Iraq	`IQ`	`IRQ`	`368`	ISO 3166-2:IQ
Ireland	`IE`	`IRL`	`372`	ISO 3166-2:IE
Isle of Man	`IM`	`IMN`	`833`	ISO 3166-2:IM
Israel	`IL`	`ISR`	`376`	ISO 3166-2:IL
Italy	`IT`	`ITA`	`380`	ISO 3166-2:IT
Jamaica	`JM`	`JAM`	`388`	ISO 3166-2:JM
Japan	`JP`	`JPN`	`392`	ISO 3166-2:JP
Jersey	`JE`	`JEY`	`832`	ISO 3166-2:JE
Jordan	`JO`	`JOR`	`400`	ISO 3166-2:JO
Kazakhstan	`KZ`	`KAZ`	`398`	ISO 3166-2:KZ
Kenya	`KE`	`KEN`	`404`	ISO 3166-2:KE
Kiribati	`KI`	`KIR`	`296`	ISO 3166-2:KI
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	`KP`	`PRK`	`408`	ISO 3166-2:KP
Korea, Republic of	`KR`	`KOR`	`410`	ISO 3166-2:KR
Kuwait	`KW`	`KWT`	`414`	ISO 3166-2:KW
Kyrgyzstan	`KG`	`KGZ`	`417`	ISO 3166-2:KG
Lao People's Democratic Republic	`LA`	`LAO`	`418`	ISO 3166-2:LA
Latvia	`LV`	`LVA`	`428`	ISO 3166-2:LV
Lebanon	`LB`	`LBN`	`422`	ISO 3166-2:LB
Lesotho	`LS`	`LSO`	`426`	ISO 3166-2:LS
Liberia	`LR`	`LBR`	`430`	ISO 3166-2:LR
Libya	`LY`	`LBY`	`434`	ISO 3166-2:LY
Liechtenstein	`LI`	`LIE`	`438`	ISO 3166-2:LI
Lithuania	`LT`	`LTU`	`440`	ISO 3166-2:LT
Luxembourg	`LU`	`LUX`	`442`	ISO 3166-2:LU
Macao	`MO`	`MAC`	`446`	ISO 3166-2:MO
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of	`MK`	`MKD`	`807`	ISO 3166-2:MK
Madagascar	`MG`	`MDG`	`450`	ISO 3166-2:MG
Malawi	`MW`	`MWI`	`454`	ISO 3166-2:MW
Malaysia	`MY`	`MYS`	`458`	ISO 3166-2:MY
Maldives	`MV`	`MDV`	`462`	ISO 3166-2:MV
Mali	`ML`	`MLI`	`466`	ISO 3166-2:ML
Malta	`MT`	`MLT`	`470`	ISO 3166-2:MT
Marshall Islands	`MH`	`MHL`	`584`	ISO 3166-2:MH
Martinique	`MQ`	`MTQ`	`474`	ISO 3166-2:MQ
Mauritania	`MR`	`MRT`	`478`	ISO 3166-2:MR
Mauritius	`MU`	`MUS`	`480`	ISO 3166-2:MU
Mayotte	`YT`	`MYT`	`175`	ISO 3166-2:YT
Mexico	`MX`	`MEX`	`484`	ISO 3166-2:MX
Micronesia, Federated States of	`FM`	`FSM`	`583`	ISO 3166-2:FM
Moldova, Republic of	`MD`	`MDA`	`498`	ISO 3166-2:MD
Monaco	`MC`	`MCO`	`492`	ISO 3166-2:MC
Mongolia	`MN`	`MNG`	`496`	ISO 3166-2:MN
Montenegro	`ME`	`MNE`	`499`	ISO 3166-2:ME
Montserrat	`MS`	`MSR`	`500`	ISO 3166-2:MS
Morocco	`MA`	`MAR`	`504`	ISO 3166-2:MA
Mozambique	`MZ`	`MOZ`	`508`	ISO 3166-2:MZ
Myanmar	`MM`	`MMR`	`104`	ISO 3166-2:MM
Namibia	`NA`	`NAM`	`516`	ISO 3166-2:NA
Nauru	`NR`	`NRU`	`520`	ISO 3166-2:NR
Nepal	`NP`	`NPL`	`524`	ISO 3166-2:NP
Netherlands	`NL`	`NLD`	`528`	ISO 3166-2:NL
New Caledonia	`NC`	`NCL`	`540`	ISO 3166-2:NC
New Zealand	`NZ`	`NZL`	`554`	ISO 3166-2:NZ
Nicaragua	`NI`	`NIC`	`558`	ISO 3166-2:NI
Niger	`NE`	`NER`	`562`	ISO 3166-2:NE
Nigeria	`NG`	`NGA`	`566`	ISO 3166-2:NG
Niue	`NU`	`NIU`	`570`	ISO 3166-2:NU
Norfolk Island	`NF`	`NFK`	`574`	ISO 3166-2:NF
Northern Mariana Islands	`MP`	`MNP`	`580`	ISO 3166-2:MP
Norway	`NO`	`NOR`	`578`	ISO 3166-2:NO
Oman	`OM`	`OMN`	`512`	ISO 3166-2:OM
Pakistan	`PK`	`PAK`	`586`	ISO 3166-2:PK
Palau	`PW`	`PLW`	`585`	ISO 3166-2:PW
Palestinian Territory, Occupied	`PS`	`PSE`	`275`	ISO 3166-2:PS
Panama	`PA`	`PAN`	`591`	ISO 3166-2:PA
Papua New Guinea	`PG`	`PNG`	`598`	ISO 3166-2:PG
Paraguay	`PY`	`PRY`	`600`	ISO 3166-2:PY
Peru	`PE`	`PER`	`604`	ISO 3166-2:PE
Philippines	`PH`	`PHL`	`608`	ISO 3166-2:PH
Pitcairn	`PN`	`PCN`	`612`	ISO 3166-2:PN
Poland	`PL`	`POL`	`616`	ISO 3166-2:PL
Portugal	`PT`	`PRT`	`620`	ISO 3166-2:PT
Puerto Rico	`PR`	`PRI`	`630`	ISO 3166-2:PR
Qatar	`QA`	`QAT`	`634`	ISO 3166-2:QA
Reunion ! Réunion	`RE`	`REU`	`638`	ISO 3166-2:RE
Romania	`RO`	`ROU`	`642`	ISO 3166-2:RO
Russian Federation	`RU`	`RUS`	`643`	ISO 3166-2:RU
Rwanda	`RW`	`RWA`	`646`	ISO 3166-2:RW
Saint Barthélemy	`BL`	`BLM`	`652`	ISO 3166-2:BL
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	`SH`	`SHN`	`654`	ISO 3166-2:SH
Saint Kitts and Nevis	`KN`	`KNA`	`659`	ISO 3166-2:KN
Saint Lucia	`LC`	`LCA`	`662`	ISO 3166-2:LC
Saint Martin (French part)	`MF`	`MAF`	`663`	ISO 3166-2:MF
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	`PM`	`SPM`	`666`	ISO 3166-2:PM
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	`VC`	`VCT`	`670`	ISO 3166-2:VC
Samoa	`WS`	`WSM`	`882`	ISO 3166-2:WS
San Marino	`SM`	`SMR`	`674`	ISO 3166-2:SM
Sao Tome and Principe	`ST`	`STP`	`678`	ISO 3166-2:ST
Saudi Arabia	`SA`	`SAU`	`682`	ISO 3166-2:SA
Senegal	`SN`	`SEN`	`686`	ISO 3166-2:SN
Serbia	`RS`	`SRB`	`688`	ISO 3166-2:RS
22x20px Seychelles	`SC`	`SYC`	`690`	ISO 3166-2:SC
Sierra Leone	`SL`	`SLE`	`694`	ISO 3166-2:SL
Singapore	`SG`	`SGP`	`702`	ISO 3166-2:SG
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	`SX`	`SXM`	`534`	ISO 3166-2:SX
Slovakia	`SK`	`SVK`	`703`	ISO 3166-2:SK
Slovenia	`SI`	`SVN`	`705`	ISO 3166-2:SI
Solomon Islands	`SB`	`SLB`	`090`	ISO 3166-2:SB
Somalia	`SO`	`SOM`	`706`	ISO 3166-2:SO
South Africa	`ZA`	`ZAF`	`710`	ISO 3166-2:ZA
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	`GS`	`SGS`	`239`	ISO 3166-2:GS
South Sudan	`SS`	`SSD`	`728`	ISO 3166-2:SS
Spain	`ES`	`ESP`	`724`	ISO 3166-2:ES
Sri Lanka	`LK`	`LKA`	`144`	ISO 3166-2:LK
Sudan	`SD`	`SDN`	`729`	ISO 3166-2:SD
Suriname	`SR`	`SUR`	`740`	ISO 3166-2:SR
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	`SJ`	`SJM`	`744`	ISO 3166-2:SJ
Swaziland	`SZ`	`SWZ`	`748`	ISO 3166-2:SZ
Sweden	`SE`	`SWE`	`752`	ISO 3166-2:SE
Switzerland	`CH`	`CHE`	`756`	ISO 3166-2:CH
Syrian Arab Republic	`SY`	`SYR`	`760`	ISO 3166-2:SY
Taiwan, Province of China	`TW`	`TWN`	`158`	ISO 3166-2:TW
Tajikistan	`TJ`	`TJK`	`762`	ISO 3166-2:TJ
Tanzania, United Republic of	`TZ`	`TZA`	`834`	ISO 3166-2:TZ
Thailand	`TH`	`THA`	`764`	ISO 3166-2:TH
Timor-Leste	`TL`	`TLS`	`626`	ISO 3166-2:TL
Togo	`TG`	`TGO`	`768`	ISO 3166-2:TG
Tokelau	`TK`	`TKL`	`772`	ISO 3166-2:TK
Tonga	`TO`	`TON`	`776`	ISO 3166-2:TO
Trinidad and Tobago	`TT`	`TTO`	`780`	ISO 3166-2:TT
Tunisia	`TN`	`TUN`	`788`	ISO 3166-2:TN
Turkey	`TR`	`TUR`	`792`	ISO 3166-2:TR
Turkmenistan	`TM`	`TKM`	`795`	ISO 3166-2:TM
Turks and Caicos Islands	`TC`	`TCA`	`796`	ISO 3166-2:TC
Tuvalu	`TV`	`TUV`	`798`	ISO 3166-2:TV
Uganda	`UG`	`UGA`	`800`	ISO 3166-2:UG
Ukraine	`UA`	`UKR`	`804`	ISO 3166-2:UA
United Arab Emirates	`AE`	`ARE`	`784`	ISO 3166-2:AE
United Kingdom	`GB`	`GBR`	`826`	ISO 3166-2:GB
United States	`US`	`USA`	`840`	ISO 3166-2:US
United States Minor Outlying Islands	`UM`	`UMI`	`581`	ISO 3166-2:UM
Uruguay	`UY`	`URY`	`858`	ISO 3166-2:UY
Uzbekistan	`UZ`	`UZB`	`860`	ISO 3166-2:UZ
Vanuatu	`VU`	`VUT`	`548`	ISO 3166-2:VU
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	`VE`	`VEN`	`862`	ISO 3166-2:VE
Viet Nam	`VN`	`VNM`	`704`	ISO 3166-2:VN
Virgin Islands, British	`VG`	`VGB`	`092`	ISO 3166-2:VG
Virgin Islands, U.S.	`VI`	`VIR`	`850`	ISO 3166-2:VI
Wallis and Futuna	`WF`	`WLF`	`876`	ISO 3166-2:WF
Western Sahara	`EH`	`ESH`	`732`	ISO 3166-2:EH
Yemen	`YE`	`YEM`	`887`	ISO 3166-2:YE
Zambia	`ZM`	`ZMB`	`894`	ISO 3166-2:ZM
Zimbabwe	`ZW`	`ZWE`	`716`	ISO 3166-2:ZW

Reserved and user-assigned code elements [link]

Besides the officially assigned codes, code elements may be expanded by using either reserved codes or user-assigned codes.^[13]

Reserved code elements are codes which have become obsolete, or are required in order to enable a particular user application of the standard but do not qualify for inclusion in ISO 3166-1. To avoid transitional application problems and to aid users who require specific additional code elements for the functioning of their coding systems, the ISO 3166/MA, when justified, reserves these codes which it undertakes not to use for other than specified purposes during a limited or indeterminate period of time. Codes are usually reserved for former countries, overseas territories, international organizations, and special nationality status. The reserved alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes can be divided into the following four categories (click on the links for the reserved codes of each category):

Alpha-2: exceptional reservations, transitional reservations, indeterminate reservations, and codes currently agreed not to use
Alpha-3: exceptional reservations, transitional reservations, indeterminate reservations, and codes currently agreed not to use
Numeric: no reserved codes

User-assigned code elements are codes at the disposal of users who need to add further names of countries, territories, or other geographical entities to their in-house application of ISO 3166-1, and the ISO 3166/MA will never use these codes in the updating process of the standard. The following codes can be user-assigned:

Alpha-2: AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ
Alpha-3: AAA to AAZ, QMA to QZZ, XAA to XZZ, and ZZA to ZZZ
Numeric: 900 to 999

Changes [link]

The ISO 3166/MA updates ISO 3166-1 when necessary, by announcing changes in newsletters which update the currently valid standard, and releasing new editions which comprise a consolidation of newsletter changes.^[14] A country is usually assigned new ISO 3166-1 codes if it changes its name or its territorial boundaries. In general, new alphabetic codes are assigned if a country changes a significant part of its name, while a new numeric code is assigned if a country changes its territorial boundaries. Codes for formerly used country names that were deleted from ISO 3166-1 are published in ISO 3166-3.

Edition/Newsletter	Date issued	Contents
ISO 3166:1974	1974	First edition of ISO 3166
ISO 3166:1981	1981	Second edition of ISO 3166
ISO 3166:1988	1988	Third edition of ISO 3166
ISO 3166:1993	1993	Fourth edition of ISO 3166
ISO 3166-1:1997	1997-09-25	First edition of ISO 3166-1 (ISO 3166 expanded into three parts)
Newsletter V-1	1998-02-05	Change of official name (Samoa)
Newsletter V-2	1999-10-01	Inclusion of new country name and code elements (Palestinian Territory, Occupied)
Newsletter V-3	2002-02-01	Change of alpha-3 Code Element (Romania)
Newsletter V-4	2002-05-20	Name changes (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fiji, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Macao, Niue, Somalia, Venezuela)
Newsletter V-5	2002-05-20	Change of names and alphabetical code elements of East Timor
Newsletter V-6	2002-11-15	Change of names of East Timor
Newsletter V-7	2003-01-14	Change of official name of Comoros
Newsletter V-8	2003-07-23	Deletion of "Yugoslavia"; inclusion of "Serbia and Montenegro" with new alphabetical code elements
Newsletter V-9	2004-02-13	Inclusion of an entry for Åland Islands
Newsletter V-10	2004-04-26	Name changes (Afghanistan, Åland Islands)
Newsletter V-11	2006-03-29	Inclusion of an entry for Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man. Change of remark for the United Kingdom
Newsletter V-12	2006-09-26	Inclusion of the new entries for "Serbia" and "Montenegro" (replacing Serbia and Montenegro)
ISO 3166-1:2006	2006-11-20	Second edition of ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1:2006/ Cor 1:2007	2007-07-15	First Technical Corrigendum to ISO 3166-1:2006
Newsletter VI-1	2007-09-21	Assignment of code elements for Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin and update of France and other French Territories (French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Guadeloupe, Réunion)
Newsletter VI-2	2008-03-31	Name changes for Moldova, Montenegro and other minor corrections (Madagascar, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Saint Barthélemy)
Newsletter VI-3	2008-09-09	Name change for Nepal and other minor corrections (Greenland, Guernsey, Moldova, Nigeria)
Newsletter VI-4	2009-01-07	Name change for the Republic of Moldova and other minor corrections (Central African Republic, Comoros)
Newsletter VI-5	2009-03-03	Name change for Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other minor corrections (Kiribati, Tuvalu)
Newsletter VI-6	2009-05-08	Name change for Plurinational State of Bolivia
Newsletter VI-7	2010-02-22	Name change for Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Newsletter VI-8	2010-12-15	Code elements for Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten (Dutch part), update of other territories (Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles) and minor corrections (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia)
Newsletter VI-9	2011-06-12 (corrected 2011-07-14)	Name changes for Fiji and Myanmar as well as other minor corrections (Åland Islands, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Niue)
Newsletter VI-10	2011-08-09	Code elements for South Sudan (and new numeric code for Sudan)
Newsletter VI-11	2011-11-08	Name change for Libya
Newsletter VI-12	2012-02-15	Name change for Hungary and other minor corrections (Bangladesh, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Germany)

References [link]

^ "ISO 3166 – FAQs – General questions". International Organization for Standardization (ISO). http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_general.htm.
^ "Development of ISO 3166". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/development_of_iso_3166.htm.
^ "Implementation of ISO 3166-1". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/implementation_of_iso_3166-1.htm.
^ "You and ISO 3166". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/you_and_iso_3166.htm.
^ "Links". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/links_iso_3166.htm.
^ "ISO 3166-1 and ccTLDs". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/iso_3166-1_and_cctlds.htm.
^ ^a ^b ^c "ISO 3166 – FAQs – Specific". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_specific.htm.
^ "Taiwan sues ISO over incorrect reference". Taipei Representative Office in the UK. http://www.roc-taiwan.org/UK/ct.asp?xItem=41952&ctNode=932&mp=132&nowPage=6&pagesize=15.
^ Felber, René (10 September 2010). "Umweg über Zivilrichter unzulässig: Taiwans Kampf um seinen Namen" (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung: p. 14.
^ "Urteil vom 9. September 2010 (5A_329/2009) [Decision of 9 September 2010 (5A_329/2009)]" (in German). Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. http://www.bger.ch/de/mm_5a_329_2009_d.pdf.
^ "Arrêt du 9 septembre 2010 (5A_329/2009) [Decision of 9 September 2010 (5A_329/2009)]" (in French). Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. http://www.bger.ch/fr/mm_5a_329_2009_d.pdf.
^ "Country names and code elements". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/country_names_and_code_elements.htm.
^ "Customizing ISO 3166-1". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/customizing_iso_3166-1.htm.
^ "Updates on ISO 3166". ISO. http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/updates_on_iso_3166.htm.

Sources and external links [link]

ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Country names and code elements — list of alpha-2 codes
Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use, United Nations Statistics Division
- Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations — list of alpha-3 and numeric codes (a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list)
The World Factbook (public domain), Central Intelligence Agency
- Appendix D – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes — comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166, and STANAG 1059 country codes
Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids"), Statoids.com
- Country codes — comparison of ISO 3166-1 country codes with other country codes

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Criteria for inclusion [link]

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Information included [link]

Current codes [link]

Officially assigned code elements [link]

Reserved and user-assigned code elements [link]

Changes [link]

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Sources and external links [link]

http://wn.com/ISO_3166-1

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http://it.wn.com/ISO 3166-1

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