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DIN EN ISO 3166-1:2014
Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes (ISO 3166-1:2013); German version EN ISO 3166-1:2014
The document provides universally applicable coded representations of names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest.. It establishes codes that represent the current names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest, on the basis of lists of country names obtained from the United Nations. It is intended for use in any application requiring the expression of current country names in coded form.
Deutsches Institut für Normung [din]