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A tibble of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes for countries, which are the accepted standard for supplying countryCode in Darwin Core Standard.

Usage

country_codes

Format

A tibble containing valid country codes (249 rows x 3 columns). Column descriptions are as follows:

name

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, pointing to its ISO 3166-2 article.

code

English short name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

year

Year when alpha-2 code was first officially assigned.

Source

Wikipedia.

See also

set_locality() for assigning countryCode within a tibble; countryCode_values() to return valid codes as a vector.