Subject: Re: NOSU Border -&gt; ISO codes for former countries<br/>
Date: Sep 18, 2002 @ 10:40<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-782737300">An interesting article I just came across:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/commcentre/pdf/Codes0004.pdf">http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/commcentre/pdf/Codes0004.pdf</a><br/>
So the Former Soviet-Union should be SUHH. This is ISO 3166-3.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Peter Smaardijk &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; Yes!<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; So nowadays it&#39;s NORU.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; The two letter country codes are the ISO ones (there is a link to <br/>
them<br/>
&gt; in the links section).<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; It is interesting to see that apart from .ru, the .su domain is also<br/>
&gt; still in use in Russia.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Peter S.<br/>
&gt; --- marco_polito &lt;marco_polito@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt; I am not familiar with two-letters country codes; NOSU stands for <br/>
&gt; &gt; NOrway-former-SovietUnion?<br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
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