Alternative place names?
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Tue Oct 3 13:33:42 UTC 2000
Garrett Wollman said:
> And furthermore, there are external authorities which make it possible
> to avoid deciding what constitutes a ``country''; this only breaks
> down when the international-affairs community willfully chooses to
> ignore reality. (But even Taiwan has its own ISO 3166 code, despite
> official claims that .TW == .CN.)
3166 makes it clear that it does not state what is or isn't a country.
[Note, in particular, the codes for French TOMs/DOMs (or whatever they're
now called) that are clearly not countries, or those for UK colonies.]
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