[Gllug] ISO 2-character country codes.

[Andrew Black (li)]

>    I could never remember whether the ISO code for the British Isles
should
> be GB or UK, so I did a Google search, and found both listed, one as
"Great
> Britain (UK)", the other as "United Kingdom". I am only trying to set up
> Debian for a friend, and it asked for the code so that the box was correct
> for use with ISDN. The friend only has a dial-up modem, but I decided I
> should get it correct anyway. I suspect that different applications may
> require different answers.

The country code is GB and the currency is GBP.   I would regard a reference
from ISO's web site to be reliable.
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list
-en1.html

There are plenty of web sites that say otherwise - for example
http://www.atomintersoft.com/products/alive-proxy/iso-country-code/
but if you look more closer it also mentions those well known "countries"
com, gov, net ....  - although it claims to be ISO it is actually listing
the Internet top level domains!




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