[Gllug] ISO 2-character country codes.

[Allen Baranov]

Hi,

GB is correct.

All the top level domains are based on the country's ISO code. So, South
Africa has country code ZA and TLD .za. This is true for all countries
except the USA which has .us but doesn't use it very extensively - note
.net, .org .com. And the United Kingdom/Great Briton which has the ISO
country code GB and the TLD .uk. 

Of course now that that little bit of confusion has been introduced
software manufactures/coders may incorrectly use "uk" in place of "gb".

What is the United Kingdom anyway..and what is Great Briton? AFAIK one
includes North Ireland and the other doesn't. 

Allen Baranov

On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 04:07, Andrew Black (li) wrote:
> >    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!
> 
-- 
Allen Baranov <allen at isa.co.za>


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