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There are non GB UK countries though, or at least one in NI.
by anotherhue 2y ago
There are non GB UK countries though, or at least one in NI.
- ethbr1 2y ago.im
- jamesog 2y agoThe Isle of Man isn't part of the UK, but rather a Crown Dependency, as are Jersey (.je) and Guernsey (.gg): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
- alexchamberlain 2y agoRight, but confusingly, GB is the ISO 2 code for the United Kingdom, even though the United Kingdom is much bigger than Great Britain, where the GB abbreviation comes from.
- anotherhue 2y agoMakes sense, also in keeping with the excessively complicated naming that thousands of years of dispute produces.
- vidarh 2y agoPet hate: Regularly running into dropdowns that list countries by name, but sort them by country code.
- glimmung 2y agoThanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!
- beojan 2y agoAt least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.
- TRiG_Ireland 2y agoIVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters.
- alexchamberlain 2y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_specific.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or... Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely.
- xp84 2y agoThat’s interesting. It kind of makes sense. I guess the US makes this rule kind of funny too. I guess we’re lucky we didn’t get .am for “America.”