← Back to context Comment by anotherhue 7 months ago There are non GB UK countries though, or at least one in NI. 10 comments anotherhue Reply alexchamberlain 7 months ago Right, but confusingly, GB is the ISO 2 code for the United Kingdom, even though the United Kingdom is much bigger than Great Britain, where the GB abbreviation comes from. vidarh 7 months ago Pet hate: Regularly running into dropdowns that list countries by name, but sort them by country code. glimmung 7 months ago Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too! beojan 7 months ago At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code. alexchamberlain 6 months ago https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or...Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely. 1 reply → TRiG_Ireland 7 months ago IVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters. anotherhue 7 months ago Makes sense, also in keeping with the excessively complicated naming that thousands of years of dispute produces. ethbr1 7 months ago .im jamesog 7 months ago The Isle of Man isn't part of the UK, but rather a Crown Dependency, as are Jersey (.je) and Guernsey (.gg): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
alexchamberlain 7 months ago Right, but confusingly, GB is the ISO 2 code for the United Kingdom, even though the United Kingdom is much bigger than Great Britain, where the GB abbreviation comes from. vidarh 7 months ago Pet hate: Regularly running into dropdowns that list countries by name, but sort them by country code. glimmung 7 months ago Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too! beojan 7 months ago At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code. alexchamberlain 6 months ago https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or...Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely. 1 reply → TRiG_Ireland 7 months ago IVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters. anotherhue 7 months ago Makes sense, also in keeping with the excessively complicated naming that thousands of years of dispute produces.
vidarh 7 months ago Pet hate: Regularly running into dropdowns that list countries by name, but sort them by country code. glimmung 7 months ago Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!
glimmung 7 months ago Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!
beojan 7 months ago At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code. alexchamberlain 6 months ago https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or...Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely. 1 reply → TRiG_Ireland 7 months ago IVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters.
alexchamberlain 6 months ago https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or...Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely. 1 reply →
TRiG_Ireland 7 months ago IVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters.
anotherhue 7 months ago Makes sense, also in keeping with the excessively complicated naming that thousands of years of dispute produces.
ethbr1 7 months ago .im jamesog 7 months ago The Isle of Man isn't part of the UK, but rather a Crown Dependency, as are Jersey (.je) and Guernsey (.gg): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
jamesog 7 months ago The Isle of Man isn't part of the UK, but rather a Crown Dependency, as are Jersey (.je) and Guernsey (.gg): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
Right, but confusingly, GB is the ISO 2 code for the United Kingdom, even though the United Kingdom is much bigger than Great Britain, where the GB abbreviation comes from.
Pet hate: Regularly running into dropdowns that list countries by name, but sort them by country code.
Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!
At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or...
Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely.
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IVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters.
Makes sense, also in keeping with the excessively complicated naming that thousands of years of dispute produces.
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The Isle of Man isn't part of the UK, but rather a Crown Dependency, as are Jersey (.je) and Guernsey (.gg): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies