International Organization for Standardization (ISO) codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Consists of three parts. Part 1: Country codes, defines codes for country and dependent area names. Part 2: Country subdivision code, defines codes for the principal subdivisions of a country or dependent area. Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries, defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes.
ISO_3166_1
ISO_3166_2
ISO_3166_3ISO_3166_1 is a character frame with variables Alpha_2,
Alpha_3, and Numeric (giving the two-letter,
three-letter and three-digit numeric country codes) and Name,
Official_name, and Common_name (giving the respective
names).
ISO_3166_2 is a character frame with variables Code,
Type, Name, and Parent, giving the code, type and
name of the subdivision, and a parent subdivision in case this is
different from the country.
ISO_3166_3 is a character frame with variables Alpha_4
(the 4-letter code of the retired country), Alpha_3,
Numeric, and Name (the original 3166-1 code elements of
the country), and Date_withdrawn and Comment.