[thelist] Country List needed

[Damian Maclennan]

Hi

This may be a little fine grained for you, but it's in a nice format to 
import.

http://www.improvise.com.au/include/countries.xml

Damian



>From: Paul Cowan <paul at wishlist.com.au>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
>Subject: [thelist] Country List needed
>Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:47:35 +1100
>
>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,
>
>Not sure how OT this is, so just in case:
>
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>Paul Cowan
>
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