Published subjects for countries in ISO 3166

This is a set of published subjects intended to be used for identifying countries by URI. The identifiers are URIs based on the numeric codes in ISO 3166 ("Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions"). (The PSI for this PSI set is: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/.)

This published subject set was published by the OASIS PubSubj TC, which is also responsible for its maintenance.

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 editor 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

The concept of 'country'

The concept of 'country' 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 a "country code". (Subject identifier: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/#country.)

The concept of 'alpha-2 code'

An alpha-2 code is a two-letter code used to identify a country in ISO 3166. (PSI: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/#code-a2.)

The concept of 'alpha-3 code'

An alpha-3 code is a three-letter code used to identify a language in ISO 3166. (PSI: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/#code-a3.)

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 published subject identifier for each country, based on the numeric code.

The published subject set ends here.