This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (3rd April 2000) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
All use of the word
"salutations" changed to "forms of address". This
to prevent confusion with what is meant.
Acknowledgements updated
Using the Country Chapters:
section about Internet domain country codes updated.
Address formats:
Andorra, Finland, Germany, Mongolia, Switzerland (Italian-speaking), United
Kingdom corrected. Anguilla, Barbados, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Dominica,
Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos added. New formats 104, 105, 106,
107 added.
World postal code formats:
Cambodia added; Macedonia updated.
Diacritical characters:
hyphens use where three consonants come together in a German word rule updated.
Job titles:
slight corrections made
Salutations:
Afrikaans, Akun (Ghana); Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Bangladesh: Hindu, Bahasa
Indonesian; Bangladesh: Muslim, Belorussian; Brunei Darussalem; Bulgarian,
Burmese; Czech, Danish; Dhivehi (Maldives); Faeroese; Farsi (Iran); Georgian;
India: Muslim; Chinese, Dzongkha, Haitian Creole French; Hindi; India: Sikh;
Kazakh; Korean (North); Korean (South); Kyrgyz; Lao; Latvian; Lithuanian; Malay;
Romanian; Russian; Serbo-Croatian; Slovak, Sotho; Swahili, Swazi, Swedish;
Tagalog, Tajik; Tahitian; Thai, Turkmen added. Albanian, Dutch, Greek, Finnish,
Hungarian, Italian; Japanese; Macedonian; Norwegian; Portuguese, Slovenian,
Spanish, Turkish updated.
NEW CHAPTER ADDED: Muslim
personal names: a short guide
Mail return codes:
additions made for French, English, German, Spanish and Italian
Algeria:
salutations and personal names section added.
Anguilla:
personal names section added; example address format added
Argentina:
personal names and salutations section added; postal codes section bought
up-to-date.
Armenia:
additon to personal names section
Australia:
salutations section added; slight alteration in postal codes section
Austria:
salutations section added
Azerbaijan:
personal names and salutations section added
Barbados:
example address formats added
Benin:
personal names section added
Bhutan:
personal names and salutations section added
Bolivia:
personal names section added
Bosnia-Hercegovina:
salutations section added
Brazil:
salutations section added.
Brunei Darussalem:
salutations/personal names section added
Bulgaria:
personal names section added
Canada:
addition to personal names section; corrections made to langauges section; many
additions and corrections to address format section
Cambodia:
example address format section added; postal codes section added
Cape Verde:
personal names and salutations section added
Cayman Islands:
example address formats added
Chad:
personal names and salutations section added
Chile:
personal names and salutations section added
China:
information about Tibetan personal names and salutations added
Colombia: personal
names and salutations section added
Comoros: personal
names and salutations section added
Congo (Democratic
Republic of): personal names
section added
Croatia:
salutations section added
Cuba:
personal names and salutations section added
Cyprus:
personal names and salutations section added
Czech Republic:
personal names section added
Denmark:
personal names section added
Djibouti:
personal names section added
Dominica:
personal names section added
Dominican Republic:
personal names section added
Ecuador:
personal names and salutation section added
Egypt:
salutations section added
El Salvador:
salutations and personal names section added
Equatorial Guinea:
salutations section added.
Eritrea:
personal names section added.
Ethiopia:
personal names section added.
France:
new sorting code information added.
Gambia:
salutations and personal names section added.
Ghana:
personal names and salutations section added.
Greece:
personal names section added
Greenland:
salutations section added
Guatemala:
personal names and salutations section added.
Guernsey:
Internet domain country code added
Guinea:
personal names section added
Haiti:
personal names section added
Honduras:
personal names and salutation section added
Hong Kong:
personal names section added
Hungary:
personal names and salutations section updated.
India:
section on personal names and personal address forms for Hindus, Tamils and
Sikhs added.
Indonesia:
personal names and salutations section added; new name for Irian Jaya provided.
Iran:
personal names section added
Iraq:
salutations and personal names section added
Isle of Man:
Internet domain country code added
Israel:
personal names and salutations section added
Italy:
personal names and salutations section updated.
Ivory Coast:
personal names section added
Japan:
minor changes in postal and address information
Jersey:
Internet domain country code added
Jordan:
salutations section added
Kazakhstan:
personal names and salutations section added
Kenya:
personal names and salutations section added.
Kuwait:
additional address format information added
Kyrgyzstan:
personal names section updated
Laos:
personal names section added
Latvia:
personal names and salutations section added
Lebanon:
personal names and salutations section added
Liberia:
personal names section added
Libya:
salutations section added
Macao:
new political situation noted.
Macedonia:
personal names section updated; new postal code system; list of new postal codes
added;
Malaysia:
personal names and salutations section updated
Maldives:
personal names section added
Malta:
thoroughfare list section added
Mauritania:
personal names section added
Mexico:
personal names and salutations section added; postal code ranges for each
province added; alternative province abbreviations added.
Moldova:
personal names and salutations section added.
Mongolia:
personal names section added
Montserrat:
personal names section added
Morocco:
personal names and forms of address section added
Mozambique:
personal names and forms of address section added
Myanmar:
personal names and salutation section added
Nigeria:
personal names and salutation section added
Norway:
telephone number formatting and length information added. Personal names section
added.
Poland:
slight correction to address format and town names; postal code map added
Portugal:
postal code section brught up-to-date
Papua New Guinea:
personal names and forms of address section added.
Russia:
personal names section added
Saint Helena:
Internet domain country code added for Ascension Island
Saint Kitts and Nevis:
personal names section added
Saint Lucia:
personal names section added
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines: personal names section
added
Singapore:
personal names section added
Somalia/Somaliland: personal
names and forms of address section added
South Korea:
personal names and salutation section updated.
Sri Lanka:
personal names section added
Swaziland:
personal names section added
Sweden:
minor changes to personal names section.
Syria:
forms of address section added
Taiwan:
personal names section added
Tajikistan:
personal names and forms of address
Tanzania:
personal names and forms of address section added
Tonga:
personal names and forms of address section added
Trinidad & Tobago:
personal names section added
Tunisia:
personal names and forms of address added
Turkmenistan:
personal names and forms of address section added
Ukraine:
new postal code system
United Arab Emirates:
forms of address section added
United Kingdom:
telephone numbers section added; listing of postal codes per component nation
added
United States of America:
telephone number formats information added.
Uruguay:
personal names and forms of address section added
Uzbekistan:
personal names section added
Venezuela:
personal names and forms of address section added
Vietnam:
personal names and forms of address section added
Western Sahara:
personal names and forms of address section added
Yemen:
forms of address section added
Yugoslavia:
Albanian word for "Kosovo" added
Bibliography
Previous versions:
1999-3