Country code(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Countrycodes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications.
The coding system for diplomatic license plates in the United States, assigned by the U.S. State Department.
Before the 2004 EU enlargement the EU used the UN Road Traffic Conventions license plate codes; since then, it uses ISO 3166-1, with 2 exceptions: EL (not GR) is used for Greece, and UK (not GB) is used for the United Kingdom.
ISO 3-alpha codes are not posted to the Internet by ISO; the codes shown are from the United Nations, Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use, which also provided the numerical codes.
IOCcodes are from the IOC's National Olympic Committees pages.
Vehicle codes are from the Transport Division of the UN Economic Commission for Europe; I have omitted several vehicle codes which appear to be obsolete because they refer to previous names of the territory rather than the present name.
THE OLYMPIC SWIMMING DATABASE(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keep in mind that IOCcountrycodes may be different from ISO countrycodes in some cases.
This was the most dominating performance of any single country in any Games since 1972, and was one of the main reasons that each country was then restricted to bringing only two athletes in each event.
Egerszegi is the youngest swimming gold medalist in history (14), became more popular in her home country than any American swimmer has even been in the United States, and is still easily the fastest female 200 backstroker of all time.
Country code : Country codes(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Countrycodes are short alphabetic or numeric codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications.
The two-letter codes are used as the basis for:
Data codes for Switzerland presents a sample set for a country.
FIPS codes have not yet been assigned to these "countries", but the Factbook's naming scheme implies that they should be AX and DX, respectively.
Finally, FIPS allocates codes to the Paracel (PF) and Spratly (PG) Islands, two island groups in the South China Sea that are claimed by every country within shooting distance; ISO 3166 is noncommital about the Paracels and Spratlys.
However, some of the codes reported there are not the ones in actual use, because some countries are lax in reporting their codes to the U.N. Secretary General.
For historical reasons, many of these are different from the standard ISO 3166-1codes.
Individual athletes from Yugoslavia competed under the Olympic Flag in the 1992 Summer Games when the country was under a United Nations sporting embargo
CountryCodes is a small database of countrycodes and additional information for more than 250 countries.
It displays their location (continent), ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2-3 codes and ISO number as well as IDDD code and flag, NDD Code, Country Dialing Code, FIPS PUB 10-4 and TLD (Top Level Domain) code and the current time in the country, Distinguishing sign, IOCCode, ISO Currency Code and language abbreviation 3-char name.
There would be no need to download runtime file if you have a VB written program installed and it had an installation package or if Visual Basic 6.0 is already installed on your machine.
In addition, it provides a handy link for each country that launches your browser with detailed information from the CIA World Fact Book and from the NationMaster website.
You can even extract the name of country from numeric IP addresses using IP2Location database and program will automatically display the related information to that country.
There is also a map of world showing you the content location of target country in world.
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List of IOC country codes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ANZ - Australasia (1908–1912) combined Australia and New Zealand team
IOA - Individual Olympic Athlete - used for East Timorese athletes competing under the Olympic Flag at the 2000 Games, during the United Nations Transitional Administration.
IOP - Independent Olympic Participant - used for individual athletes from Yugoslavia competing under the Olympic Flag in the 1992 Summer Games when the country was under a United Nations sporting embargo.
