Coding standards

Geographic coding standards

• ISO 3166 for countries and subdivisions
  • ISO 3166-1 decoding table
• United Nations M.49, “Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use”
• UN/LOCODE for “trade and transport locations”
• FIPS 10-4 for countries and subdivisions
• FIPS 5-2 for U.S. states (overlaps 10-4)
• FIPS 6-4 for U.S. counties
• FIPS 55-3 for “named populated places” within the U.S. (exhaustive)
• MARC 21 for countries and geographic areas

Other coding standards

• ISO 639-2 and 639-3 for languages (ISO 639-1 code elements are listed at the 639-2 site)
• ISO 4217 for currency
• ISO 15924 for scripts
• Olson time zone data
• LOINC for clinical laboratory observations

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