Introduction

Country Code and Term Sources contains a list of standard country code and/or term sources and assigns a code to each source.  The purpose of this list is to enable the source of country codes or terms contained in metadata records to be identified by a code.  For code assignment, general structure, usage, and maintenance guidelines see Introduction.

Arrangement of the list

Entries in the list are arranged in alphabetical order by the code and consist of the source code followed by the bibliographic citation for the source documentation.  The citations are linked to the online source for some codes.

Code structure

Each code consists of a maximum of 12 characters, including lowercase alphabetic characters, numeric characters 0 through 9, and the hyphen (-).  Possible additions to codes are described in Source Code Maintenance.

Country Code and Term Source Codes

marccountry

MARC Code List for Countries

iso3166

Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions-Part 1, Country codes (Geneva: International Organization for Standardization)

iso3166-2

Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions-Part 2, Country subdivision codes (Geneva: International Organization for Standardization)

swdl

Ländercode der Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) (Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)

Usage in MARC 21

 Bibliographic records

044 $2 (Country of Publishing/Producing Entity Code / Source of local subentity code)

See also:

Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes:  Contents