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Retrieved 4 June This is a list of two letter codes ISO alpha-2 and the three letter codes ISO alpha-3 as well as the United Nations used numerical code M49 for countries, dependencies, and other areas. The generally uses ISO alpha-2 codes with two exceptions: EL not GR is used to representand UK not GB is used to represent the. Do your business and your customers a favor, think for a minute about whether you really need all the countries on the list. However, it does not define the names of countries — this information comes from United Nations sources Terminology Bulletin Country Names and the Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use maintained by the United Nations Statistics Divisions. Archived from on 2009-03-01. In some cases they are not perfectly implemented. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Main article: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 are two-letter defined in , part of the published by the ISO , to represent , , and special areas of geographical interest. They are the most widely used of the country codes published by ISO the others being and , and are used most prominently for the 's with a few exceptions. They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its first edition in 1974. The currently assigns the ccTLDs mostly following the alpha-2 codes, but with a few exceptions. For example, the , whose alpha-2 code is GB, uses instead of as its ccTLD, as UK is currently in ISO 3166-1 on the request of the United Kingdom. The coding standard ST. The uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes with two exceptions: EL not GR is used to represent , and UK not GB is used to represent the. This notwithstanding, the Official Journal of the European Communities specified that GB and GR be used to represent the United Kingdom and Greece respectively. The uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO 3166, for , the codes on the oval stickers used to identify foreign road vehicles; some of these codes are currently in ISO 3166-1. The following alpha-2 codes can be user-assigned: AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ. Reserved code elements 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. The reserved alpha-2 codes can be divided into the following four categories: , , , and. These codes may be used only during a transitional period of at least five years while new code elements that may have replaced them are taken into use. The following alpha-2 codes are currently transitionally reserved: Alpha-2 Formerly used country name Date of reservation BU 1989-12 CS 2006-09 NT 1993-07 SF 1995-09 TP 2002-05 YU 2003-07 ZR 1997-07 The code SF was actually not an official code, as Finland is officially assigned the alpha-2 code FI. It was previously used in international postal codes and to represent Finland, and was taken from the country name in and combined: Suomi Finland. The following alpha-2 code was previously transitionally reserved, but was later reassigned to another country as its official code: Alpha-2 Formerly used country name Date of reservation Code reassigned to CS 1993-06 2003 Indeterminate reservations Indeterminately reserved code elements are under the 1949 and but differing from those contained in ISO 3166-1. These code elements are expected eventually to be either eliminated or replaced by code elements within ISO 3166-1. Deleted codes Besides the codes currently and two other codes currently FX for and SU for , the following alpha-2 codes have also been deleted from ISO 3166-1: Alpha-2 Former country name Code later reassigned to AI BQ CT DD DY FQ GE HV JT MI NH NQ PC PU PZ RH SK VD WK YD For each deleted alpha-2 code, an entry for the corresponding former country name is included in. Each entry is assigned a four-letter alphabetic code, where the first two letters are the deleted alpha-2 code. International Organization for Standardization ISO. International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Association of National Numbering Agencies. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation. World Intellectual Property Organization. Official Journal of the European Communities, L 335. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Internet Engineering Task Force.

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