Coding standards
Geographic coding standards
ISO 3166
for countries and subdivisions
ISO 3166-1
decoding table
United Nations
M.49
, “Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use”
UN/LOCODE
for “trade and transport locations”
FIPS 10-4
for countries and subdivisions
FIPS 5-2
for U.S. states
(overlaps 10-4)
FIPS 6-4
for U.S. counties
FIPS 55-3
for “named populated places” within the U.S.
(exhaustive)
MARC 21 for
countries
and
geographic areas
Other coding standards
ISO
639-2
,
639-3
, and
639-5
for languages
(ISO 639-1 code elements are listed at the 639-2 site)
ISO 4217
for currency
ISO 15924
for scripts
Olson time zone data
LOINC
for clinical laboratory observations
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Doug Ewell
• Last modified 2009-06-11