ISO Country Codes for Baltic and new Russian Republics?
James Ault
Does anyone know if ISO has designated two and three letter country
codes for the Baltic Republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) and/or
any of the new Russian Republics (I don't remember their new names)?
How about the Commonwealth of Independent States? Will it get a
country code all by itself? Inquiring minds....
Better yet, does anyone have a newly updated list that includes all of
the above?
Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, au...@rpi.edu, +1 518 276 2750 <><
Peter J Dotzauer
>
>Does anyone know if ISO has designated two and three letter country
>codes for the Baltic Republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) and/or
>any of the new Russian Republics (I don't remember their new names)?
Russian Republic_s_?? I know of one 'Russian' republic, that's the
Russian Federation. Some may also consider Belarus (formerly Byelorussia)
a 'Russian' republic. The other republics are not 'Russian' in any way,
except that Russian minorities live in some of them (most notably in
Kazakhstan and Ukraine).
Ukraine (UA) and Belarus (BY) have long had ISO 3166 country codes, since they
were UN members as Soviet Republics.
>
>How about the Commonwealth of Independent States? Will it get a
>country code all by itself? Inquiring minds....
No. The Commonwealth is not a country, but an organization of independent
states, perhaps like the European Community, the OAS, or the Arab League,
none of which has a country code.
>
>Better yet, does anyone have a newly updated list that includes all of
>the above?
ISO is working on a revision of the ISO 3166 standard, which will include
not only country codes, but also codes for the primary subdivisions of
all countries as well.
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James Ault
In article <q-c...@rpi.edu> au...@jacob.its.rpi.edu (James Ault) writes:
>
>Does anyone know if ISO has designated two and three letter country
>codes for the Baltic Republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) and/or
In article <1992Jan2.1...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> p...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dotzauer) writes:
> Ukraine (UA) and Belarus (BY) have long had ISO 3166 country
> codes, since they were UN members as Soviet Republics.
> ISO is working on a revision of the ISO 3166 standard, which will
> include not only country codes, but also codes for the primary
> subdivisions of all countries as well.
Thanks. Where can I get a list of the current standard, or the new
standard when it is available?
I received several replies via email, one of which said this topic had
been discussed on comp.protocols.tcp-ip recently. Could someone from
that group summarize what transpired there?
Specifically, I received this fragment of an article from someone, and
I wanted to ask a question about it:
In article <1991Oct2.2...@corax.udac.uu.se>, and...@Riga.DoCS.UU.SE (An
ders Andersson) writes:
|> (Following up on an earlier discussion in nordunet.general)
|> In case anyone wonders, ISO has recommended the following two-letter
|> country codes for the Baltic states:
|>
|> EN - Estonia
|> LT - Latvia
|> LV - Lithuania
It seems logical that Lithuania should not be LV, because it has no V in it:
Latvia should be LV, and Lithuania therefore should be LT.
|> These will probably be formally adopted at the turn of the year.
|> Until then, they are only recommendations.
|> (Source: Svenska Dagbladet of 29-Sep-91)
Any clarifications on this or other recommendations that people are
aware of are welcome. Followups are directed to comp.mail.misc.
Peter J Dotzauer
>
>In article <1992Jan2.1...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I wrote:
>
>> ISO is working on a revision of the ISO 3166 standard, which will
>> include not only country codes, but also codes for the primary
>> subdivisions of all countries as well.
>
>Thanks. Where can I get a list of the current standard, or the new
>standard when it is available?
I have one address to write to:
Secretariat of ISO/TC 46
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
c/o DIN
Burggrafenstr. 4-10
D-1000 Berlin 30
GERMANY
Tel: +49 30 2601 1
Fax: +49 30 2601 231
+49 30 2601 732
Telex: 184 273 din d
Telegrams: DEUTSCHNORMEN BERLIN
>|> country codes for the Baltic states:
>|> EN - Estonia
>|> LT - Latvia
>|> LV - Lithuania
>
>It seems logical that Lithuania should not be LV, because it has no V in it:
>Latvia should be LV, and Lithuania therefore should be LT.
>
It would seem logical if English translations of country names were the basis
for country codes, which is usually not the case (e.g. DE is derived from
Deutschland, not from Germany). In fact, I have a map on which Lithuania is
called 'Litva' (I don't know if that is Russian or Lithuanian). And someone
has yet to explain me why Algeria is DZ.
Dima Volodin
Some comments on the issue of two-letter codes for Baltic states:
EN, LV and LT ISO codes were assigned without any respect to national
traditions etc. Estonians insist on EW, Lithuanians on LT. The
situation with Latvia is a bit trickier - their favourite LR is
already busy, so they think it's OK to use LV. More of that -
the X.400 e-mail system in Lithuania-Norway use C=LT, Estonians (still)
use .ew.su for their domain addresses, Latvians have just begun to use
.lv for their domain addresses. The latter is not a registered domain
yet, so they have to use the % hack to route their addresses via
relay.ussr.eu.net
--
Dima
Dik T. Winter
>
> Some comments on the issue of two-letter codes for Baltic states:
>
> EN, LV and LT ISO codes were assigned without any respect to national
> traditions etc. Estonians insist on EW, Lithuanians on LT. The
> situation with Latvia is a bit trickier - their favourite LR is
> already busy, so they think it's OK to use LV.
were independent. For those who wonder: EW is from Eesti Waabarik (which is
actually an old spelling for the now current Eesti Vaabarik, meaning something
like Free Estonia). The ISO assignation of LV to Lithuania comes from the
name in the countries language: Lietuva.
And for the person who wondered about DZ for Algeria, it comes from Al
Djazair, again the name in the countries own language.
--
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland
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