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For example, Germany has the IOC code "GER" for the English country name "Germany." However, the three-letter ISO code is "DEU" is abbreviated from the German name "Deutschland." So, although ISO is an international organization, it occasionally uses the national language to derive the abbreviations.
- Calling Codes
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- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Iceland is an island state in the North Sea between Europe...
- Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island is a remote, uninhabited island in the South...
- Antarctica
Antarctica is listed as a country by the German Weather...
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Réunion is also located in the Indian Ocean, but is not part...
- British Indian Ocean Territory
Geography The British Indian Ocean Territory is located...
- Caribbean Netherlands
The countrywide time in Caribbean Netherlands is Atlantic...
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha
This land area is about 2.2 times the size of Washington,...
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The ISO 3166-1 standard currently comprises 249 countries, 193 of which are sovereign states that are members of the United Nations. 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.
ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u."
ISO Alpha-2, Alpha-3, and Numeric Country Codes. The ISO country codes are internationally recognized codes that designate every country and most of the dependent areas a two-letter combination or a three-letter combination; it is like an acronym, that stands for a country or a state.
Member States of the European Union (EU) and other countries have been assigned a two-letter country code, always written in capital letters, and often used as an abbreviation in statistical analyses, tables, figures or maps.
The ISO 3166 classification defines unique two- and three-digit-codes for all countries worldwide. This list below offers an overview of all two-digit ISO country codes (ISO-3166 Alpha-2) for all European countries.
