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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 and 639-3 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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