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Fellow web developers, I can tell you from experience that you must edit this list before deploying it in an application: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/
by jackalope 14y ago
Fellow web developers, I can tell you from experience that you must edit this list before deploying it in an application:
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/country_names_and_code_elements.htm http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/cou...
My understanding is that we have the UN to thank:
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/iso_3166_and_the_un.htm http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/...
- tlrobinson 14y agoI can confirm, if you don't you will receive angry emails.
- mkl 14y agoIs it just Taiwan, or are there other countries in similar situations?
- freehunter 14y agoThe ISO list shows Occupied Palestine in its preferred UN nomenclature, PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED. This is a politically controversial area as well. How you should choose to identify the area depends in part on to which region you're targeting your site/app.
- mykohsu 14y agoThat's sad considering that Taiwan isn't even in the UN.