Re: Is there an International Standard Country Code?

 "Richard Tinker" <tinkerr_at_logica.com> writes:

>I am working on a relational database development project. We wish to
>store details of countries in a country table, containing data such as
>Country Code, Country Name, Territory, International Dialing Code, Primary
>Currency etc. Does anyone know if there is an International Standard set
>of Country codes, and if there is an 'off the shelf' country database
>table? I know there are such standards for currency codes and I assume
>that there are hundreds of databases out there that use country codes.

SWIFT use ISO two character country codes and ISO currency codes. They distribute a currency file to all their members. If I can get a copy I'll let you know. SWIFT may have a copyright on this info, so I don't know how freely available it is.

Jules

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