What is ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The standard provides a two-letter code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2), a three-letter code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), and a numeric code (ISO 3166-1 numeric) for each entry in its list of country names and codes.

Use of ISO 3166-1

The ISO 3166-1 standard is widely used in various fields such as international trade, shipping, finance, and telecommunications to uniquely identify countries and facilitate the exchange of information between different systems and applications. The standard is also used by international organizations such as the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee to represent countries and territories in their respective systems.

Attributes

• Country: Name of the country in the UTF-8 encoding.
• Alpha-2: Associated two-letter code
• Alpha-3: Associated three-letter code
• Numeric: Associated numerical code

Source of information

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
• https://www.worlddata.info/countrycodes.php
• https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html

Use case - This can be used for EDA or visualization along with any dataset where countries are represented in ISO 3166-1 codes.