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Update the country dropdown to use the new ISO country codes for islands in Dutch West Indies #698

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pryley opened this issue Jul 7, 2016 · 0 comments
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Update the country dropdown to use the new ISO country codes for islands in Dutch West Indies #698

pryley opened this issue Jul 7, 2016 · 0 comments
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pryley commented Jul 7, 2016

ISO has issued new country codes for islands in the Dutch West Indies to reflect their new administrative status following constitutional reform by the government of the Netherlands.

The islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten become autonomous countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the following two-letter and three-letter country codes issued under the ISO standard
ISO 3166-1:

– Sint Maarten (Dutch part) SX SXM
– Curaçao CW CUW

The islands of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Sababecome Dutch municipalities which are assigned the following ISO 3166-1 code:

– Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba BQ BES

The codes for the Netherlands Antilles are deleted from ISO 3166-1 and transitionally reserved for a period of 50 years:

– Netherlands Antilles AN ANT

Source: New ISO country codes for islands in Dutch West Indies
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