[ih] two letter follies, was Internet should be in private hands

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

If you don’t know, why comment? And there are more, of course, for example (at least) FO and BQ.

Again, the ISO maintains the International Standard ISO 3166-1:2020(E) with the title of "Codes
for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions".

The operative words here are CODES (2 Letters, 3 Letters, Numbers), and NAMES.

And, the will of the government(s) filters down into the Standard (as can be seen by the recent name change of Türkiye, or by the 2 Letter code representing South Sudan), but I look at the ISO list from the viewpoint of “Distinct Economies”, which helps in most cases, but not all.


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On 8. Dec 2022 at 03:46 +0200, John R. Levine via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>, wrote:
> > And why given the political organizations involved, it was odd that
> > someone didn’t catch that GB wasn’t the designation of the political
> > entity.
>
> > > So what about AQ? BV? AX? GP, MQ, GF, and PM?
>
> Antarctica is not a political entity. The Aland islands are part of
> Finland. Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St Pierre are islands that are part
> of France, French Guiana is a chunk of South America that is also part of
> France.* I don't know all the history of 3166 but it's definitely not
> just a list of political entities.
>
> R's,
> John
>
> * - and is why the answer to "what is the distance from France to Brazil"
> is zero
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