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Re: ISO country codes

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From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 00:00
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In article <poUprHAZlyU1EwLS@ubik.demon.co.uk>
           amn@ubik.demon.co.uk "Anthony Naggs" writes:

> It is often stated that the country codes {fr, gb, de, ...} used in
> nTLDs are defined in an ISO standard somewhere.  Any got any good
> pointers on where to find a list of these?

ISO-3166.

> (Obviously I've tried a web search, finding thousands of not quite
> helpful hits on the obvious search terms.)

Altavista has 712 index entries for ISO*3166; here's one of the first:
        http://www.uni-siegen.de/help/html/compendium/ctycode.htm
        
HTH
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
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