Identifying locations

The following schemes may be used to identify locations:

Countries

• ISO 3166-1 - ISO standard for country codes

Regions

• ISO 3166-2 - ISO standard for sub-divisions of countries

Important trade points

• UN/LOCODE - is a geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by UNECE a unit of the United Nations. It assigns aproximatly 40000 code elements to locations names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.

Villages, Cities and Metropols

• Wikipedia area, city and village listings

Airports

• IATA airport code - full listing available
• w:ICAO Airport Code - full listing not availanble in Wikipedia