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>on occasions an address in China would have Switzerland’s “CH” country code assigned to it Switzerland's country code is CH? TIL...
by parliament32 6y ago
>on occasions an address in China would have Switzerland’s “CH” country code assigned to it
Switzerland's country code is CH? TIL...
- _Microft 6y agoYup, it has its roots in "Confoederatio Helvetica", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland
- zepearl 6y agoWhich is printed as well on coins, together with the pic of somebody who's supposed to be a shepherd (might be inspired to be similar to what William Tell would have looked) :) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:F%C3%BCnffranken.jpg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:F%C3%BCnffranken.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell
- arthurcolle 6y agoThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Switzerland is "CH", as sibling poster commented from Confederation Helvetique or something like that. China is "CN". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2