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** ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of script ( writing system ) independence, and hence useful for people or systems using non-Latin scripts.
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** ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are the most widely used of the three, and used most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains ( with a few exceptions ).
** ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes.
** Reserved code elements under ISO 3166-1 " Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes ", available on request from ISO 3166 / MA
** Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations — list of alpha-3 and numeric codes ( a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list )
** Appendix D – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes — comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166, and STANAG 1059 country codes
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** Some processors contain registers that may only be used to hold an address or only to hold numeric values ( in some cases used as an index register whose value is added as an offset from some address ); others allow registers to hold either kind of quantity.
** Postal codes, such as ZIP codes ( These are generally numeric in the United States, but other nations often use alphanumeric systems.
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