Published subjects for countries

This is a set of published subject indicators useful for identifying countries by URI. The identifiers used to identify the countries are URIs based on the numeric codes in the ISO 3166 standard ("Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions").

WARNING! This is just a proposal. Please note that this page is not published in its correct location, nor are the identifier URIs finalized yet. Feedback is very much desired, either to the chair or to the TC mailing list.

Metadata

Machine-oriented metadata about this published subject set can be found in separate resources referenced below.

Published subject indicators

This PSI set

This is a set of published subjects for countries based on the ISO 3166-1 codes for countries, published and maintained by the OASIS GeoLang TC. (Subject identifier: http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso3166/#psiset.)

The concept of 'country'

The concept of 'country' included in this published subject set is that of the class implicitly defined by ISO 3166-1 as the set of entities to which the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency might assign identifying codes. (Subject identifier: http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso3166/#country.)

Individual countries

Each of the rows in the table below indicate a different subject. For each row, the subject indicated is the subject identified by the three given ISO 3166-1 codes and the French and English names for that subject as given in ISO 3166-1. The last column gives the subject identifier for each country, based on the numeric code.