Dataset of supported Country Codes

This tibble gives the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes for countries, which are the standard for supplying the Darwin Core term countryCode.

Usage

country_codes

Format

A tibble with 249 rows and 3 columns:

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

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