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The International Organization for Standardization () created and maintains the . The ISO 3166 standard contains three parts:
– Codes for the representation of names of and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It defines three sets of :
– Two-letter country codes, which are also used to create the country subdivision codes and the .
– Three-letter country codes, which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
– Three-digit country codes, which are identical to those developed and maintained by the , with the advantage of script () independence, and, hence, useful for people or systems using non-.
– Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., , , , ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
– Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries defines codes for country names that have been deleted from since its first publication in 1974.
The ISO 3166-1 standard currently comprises 249 countries, 193 of which are that are of the . Many dependent territories in the ISO 3166-1 standard are also listed as a subdivision of their administering state in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
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