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Right, 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
by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Right, 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.”