[thelist] Country List needed

[Nate Koechley]

here's a master list, as a select object:
http://www.countrywatch.com/

	** actually, this might be the best site i found. click each region, and
the list of countries is displayed on the leftnav in text form, so at least
you'd have a solid starting point.

here's some others that google revealed. countries are sorta weird too:
every list seems to have a different total number: depends on when the list
was generated, and how granular it is. what's the specific needs?

here's a text list by region (regions at top of page)
http://www.traveldocs.com/nations.htm

this one's pretty good too:
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/

//

i know it's not exactly what you were looking for, but your thread slowed
down, and i thought this might be of _some_ help...

thanks,
nate






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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Paul Cowan
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:48 PM
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Subject: [thelist] Country List needed


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,

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