Historical
ISO 3166-3:1999
Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries
This part of ISO 3166 provides principles and maintenance arrangements of a code for the representation of country names removed from editions 1 to 4 of ISO 3166 and the consecutive edition of ISO 3166-1.
Clauses 8 and 9 contain lists of all formerly used country names removed from ISO 3166 (now ISO 3166-1) since 1974, together with the code element for each one of them.
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