Comment by out_of_protocol

2 years ago

> Valve says that Steam is avaible in 237 countries. there are territories that are considered countries by valve that arent recognized by the world as being their own separate country like Taiwan

From Google, 2017.

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DEADMINCE  2 years ago

I'd be curious to see their list. They have almost 40 more countries than most agencies would consider to exist.

  • skissane  2 years ago

    A lot of enterprises define “country” as “has its own ISO 3166-1 country code”. ISO 3166-1 includes 249 entries: sovereign states, their dependent territories, and “areas of special geographic interest” (e.g. Antarctica).

    The English term “country” is ambiguous. In a narrow sense it means only sovereign states, but in a broader sense includes overseas territories and even some subnational divisions (e.g. the four countries that make up the UK)