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Huh? The country is called "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", or the UK for short. Strictly speaking, if you talk about Great Britain, you

Huh? The country is called "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", or the UK for short. Strictly speaking, if you talk about Great Britain, you're excluding Northern Ireland, but politically GB isn't a country... Wikipedia says "Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean", although historically there was also the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Karellen 4y ago
Well, go complain to ISO then, not me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes#UNI2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes... Edit: Also, if you've ever seen UK teams compete in international sports, all their athletes have "GBR" on their team uniforms.
- zinekeller 4y ago
  Yeah, GP is shooting the messenger. If the GP is reading this, here is the address of the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency: ISO 3166-1:2020: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 1: Country code ISO 3166-2:2020: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 2: Country subdivision code ISO 3166-3:2020: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries Maintenance Agency ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency c/o ISO Central Secretariat BIBC II Chemin de Blandonnet 8 1214 Vernier Switzerland Tel: +41 22 749 01 11 E-mail: customerservice@iso.org Website: www.iso.org/mara/iso3166
Symbiote 4y ago
Letters like K for kingdom are generally avoided in codes, since this way a change of constitution to the Republic of Great Britain and Northern Ireland doesn't require a new code.