LDAPWiki: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

Overview#

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 is the 2 letter Country Code.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 is published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 are the most widely used of the country codes published by ISO (the others being ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 and numeric), and are used most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains (with a few exceptions).

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 were first included as part of the standard in its first edition of ISO 3166.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are used in different environments and are also part of other standards. In some cases they are not perfectly implemented.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 are used within other codes or applications, for example,

ISO 4217 Currency Code
ISO 3901 International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
ISO 6166 International Securities Identifying Number (ISIN)
ISO 9362 Bank Identifier Codes (BIC or SWIFT code)
ISO 13616 International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
ISO 15511 International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL)
UN/LOCODE United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
with deviations, for Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLDs) on the Internet: list of Internet TLDs.
- United Kingdom, whose ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code is GB, uses .UK instead of .gb as its ccTLD, as UK is currently exceptionally reserved in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 on the request of the United Kingdom.

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