[thelist] Country List needed

[Adam Brin]

On 1/14/02 6:47 PM, "Paul Cowan" <paul at wishlist.com.au> wrote:

> Hi evolterinos,
> 
> I have need for a country code list, broken down by region, for the purposes
> of calculating delivery costs. We are trying to divide countries down into
> regions -- we are using ISO-3166 as the basis of the table, but it would be
> nice to have a ready-made source of data for what goes where rather than
> doing it manually.
> 
> We're after something moderately fine-grained... say if the world was
> divided into regions something like:
> - North America
> - Central America/Caribbean
> - South America
> - Oceania/Pacific
> - North & West Asia
> - South-East Asia
> - Middle East
> - Africa
> - Europe
> ... etc., that would be super. We're NOT after something like the
> ever-helpful Australian postal service can give us, which is broken into:
> - Asia
> - America
> - UK
> - Rest of world
> (more or less)
> 
> Just thought someone might have a list lying around which I could import
> into our database and save me an hour or so with an atlas!
> 
> Of course, even better would be a source for such a list on the web, which
> is updated to reflect changes to ISO-3166 (or some similar list of world
> states). Perhaps that's a little optimistic though.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
Paul,
    The International Standards Organization (ISO) publishes an official
country list, you can buy it off their website, or just find a copy
somewhere like here:

http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/

- adam

> Not sure how OT this is, so just in case:
> 
> <tip type="Keyboard" author="Paul Cowan">
> Got a Windows-type keyboard (the ones with the extra little keys down near
> your alt keys)? Take a second to learn the shortcuts those keys can give
> you. If you're a keyboard junkie like me, they can save you a lot of
> mouse-using time -- for example, Windows-E = explorer; Windows-F = find
> files; Windows-D = show desktop, and again to restore; Windows-R = run, and
> so on.
> </tip>
> 
> Paul Cowan

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