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Global Source Book

Update 02v1  (April 2002)


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This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data Management has been released (4th April 2002) as an Adobe Acrobat file.  The following chapters and data have been updated:

 

Country postal codes: Åland Islands added.

 

World address formats: alternative address block format for Brazil given; New Zealand format altered; new address format section for Malawi created; address format for Norway altered; new format for Cambodia added.

 

World postal code formats: code format corrected for El Salvador and Papua New Guinea; extra format added for Venezuela; extra format added for Croatia; Turks and Caicos added; Niger new code added.

 

World postbox formats: entry added for Panama; entry altered for Spain; entry added for Russia.

 

Forms of address: additional information for Spanish added; additional information for Albanian added.

 

Afghanistan: political situation updated, country name updated; population figure updated

Albania: Administrative district information updated.

Algeria: population figure updated; national languages information updated.

American Samoa: population figure updated; official name corrected.

Andorra: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Angola: population figure updated; currency name updated; official country name updated.

Anguilla: population figure updated.

Antigua & Barbuda: population figure updated.

Argentina: population figure updated; additional administrative district information provided.

Armenia: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Aruba: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Australia: population figure updated; additional postal code information provided.

Austria: States and postal regions map added; currency information updated.

Azerbaijan: population figure updated, administrative districts section added.

Bahamas: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Bahrain: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Bangladesh: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Barbados: population figure updated.

Belarus: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Belgium: currency information updated.

Belize: population figure updated.

Benin: population figure updated.

Bermuda: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Bhutan: population figure updated.

Bolivia: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: population figure updated.

Botswana: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Brazil: alternative address format given; population figure updated; postal code number per province provided; additional postal code information given.

British Virgin Irelands: population figure updated.

Brunei Darussalam: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Bulgaria: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Burkina Faso: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Burundi: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Cambodia: population figure updated; administrative districts section added; country names updated; additional address format information provided; postal code introduction date added.

Cameroon: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Canada: population figure updated; administrative districts section corrected; province codes section updated.

Cape Verde Islands: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Cayman Islands: population figure updated.

Central African Republic: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Chad: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Chile: additional postbox address information added; population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

China: population figure updated.

Christmas Island: population figure updated.

Cocos (Keeling) Islands: population figure updated.

Colombia: population figure updated.

Congo (Brazzaville): population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Congo (Kinshasa): localised country name form added; population figure updated; currency name corrected; current affairs information added; administrative districts section added.

Cook Islands: population figure updated.

Costa Rica: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Croatia: population figure updated; administrative districts section added; extra postal code format information added.

Cuba: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Cyprus: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Czech republic: additional postal code information given; additional address block format information given; population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Denmark: map of postal zones added; population figure updated; additional sorting code information added.

Djibouti: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Dominica: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Dominican Republic: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Ecuador: currency information updated; population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Egypt: population figure updated; administrative districts updated.

El Salvador: population figure updated; administrative districts updated; postal code system information corrected.

Equatorial Guinea: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Eritrea: local form of country name added; official country name added; population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Estonia: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Ethiopia: population figure updated; administrative districts section added; official country name updated.

Faeroe Islands: population figure updated; local country name provided.

Falkland Islands: population figure updated.

Fiji: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Finland: currency information updated; population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; Åland Islands ISO 3166 code added.

France: currency information updated; population figure updated.

French Guiana: currency information updated; population figure updated.

French Polynesia: currency information updated; population figure updated.

French Southern and Antarctic Territories: currency information updated.

Gabon: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Georgia: population figure updated; potential postal code change information added.

Germany: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Ghana: population figure updated.

Gibraltar: population figure updated.

Greece: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Greenland: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Grenada: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Guadeloupe: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Guam: population figure updated; capital city local form given; official country name updated; political status information added.

Guatemala: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Guernsey: administrative districts section added.

Guinea: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Guinea-Bissau: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Guyana: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Haiti: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Holy See: population figure updated; currency information updated.

Honduras: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Hong Kong: population figure updated

Hungary: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; additional address format information provided.

Iceland: population figure updated.

India: population figure updated; administrative districts section added; new states information provided.

Indonesia: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Iran: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; postal codes section updated.

Iraq: population figure updated.

Ireland: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Isle of Man: population figure updated.

Israel: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Italy: population figure updated; currency information updated.

Ivory Coast: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Jamaica: additional sorting code information given.

Japan: additional address component information given; company types section added; population figure updated; address format information updated.

Jersey: population figure updated.

Kazakhstan: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Kenya: population figure updated.

Kiribati: population figure updated.

Kuwait: population figure updated.

Kyrgyzstan: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; languages section updated.

Laos: population figure updated; change in postal code format reported.

Latvia: population figure updated; currency information updated.

Lebanon: population figure updated.

Lesotho: population figure updated.

Liberia: population figure updated; current affairs figure updated.

Libya: population figure updated; country name updated; administrative districts section added.

Liechtenstein: population figure updated.

Lithuania: population figure updated.

Luxembourg: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Macao: population figure updated; country name updated.

Macedonia: population figure updated.

Madagascar: population figure updated; country name updated.

Malawi: population figure updated; address format information updated.

Malaysia: population figure updated; new street type abbreviation added.

Maldives: population figure updated; country name local form updated.

Mali: population figure updated.

Malta: population figure updated; postal code format correction added.

Marshall Islands: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Martinique: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Mauritania: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; additional local country name form added.

Mauritius: population figure updated.

Mayotte: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Mexico: population figure updated.

Micronesia: population figure updated.

Monaco: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Moldova: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Mongolia: population figure updated.

Montserrat: population figure updated; postal codes section added.

Morocco: additional postal code information given; additional address format information given; population figure updated.

Mozambique: population figure updated.

Myanmar: population figure updated.

Namibia: population figure updated.

Nauru: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Nepal: additional current affairs information given; population figure updated.

Netherlands: currency information updated; population figure updated; address format information updated; province name information corrected.

Netherlands Antilles: population figure updated; currency information updated.

New Caledonia: currency information updated; address format information improved; population figure updated;

New Zealand: additional postal code information given; additional address format information given; population figure updated

Nicaragua: population figure updated.

Niger: population figure updated; postal code information added.

Nigeria: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; address format section updated.

Niue: population figure updated.

Norfolk Island: population figure updated.

North Korea: country added.

Northern Mariana Islands: population figure updated.

Norway: population figure updated; address format information updated.

Oman: population figure updated.

Pakistan: population figure updated.

Palau: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Panama: population figure updated; postbox section added; additional address format examples and address format information given.

Papua New Guinea: population figure updated; postal code format information altered.

Paraguay: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; additional address format information given.

Peru: population figure updated.

Philippines: current affairs information added; population figure updated.

Pitcairn Islands: population figure updated.

Poland: additional postal code information given; population figure updated.

Portugal: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Puerto Rico: population figure updated.

Qatar: population figure updated.

Réunion: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Romania: population figure updated; additional language information added; ISO 3166 alpha 3 code updated.

Russia: population figure updated; current affairs information updated; postbox section added.

Rwanda: population figure updated.

St Helena: population figure updated.

St Kitts & Nevis: population figure updated.

St Lucia: population figure updated.

St Pierre & Miquelon: currency information updated; population figure updated.

St Vincent & The Grenadines: population figure updated.

Samoa: population figure updated.

San Marino: currency information updated; population figure updated.

Sao Tome & Principe: population figure updated.

St Lucia: population figure updated.

Saudi Arabia: additional postal code information given; additional address format possibility given; population figure updated.

Senegal: population figure updated.

Seychelles: population figure updated; additional address format information provided.

Sierra Leone: population figure updated.

Singapore: additional address block information given; population figure updated.

Slovakia: population figure updated.

Slovenia: population figure updated.

Solomon Islands: population figure updated, administrative districts section added.

Somalia: population figure updated; information about Puntland added; administrative districts section updated; postal code section added.

South Africa: additional postal code information given; population figure updated; new planned postal code information added.

South Korea: additional postbox postal code information given; address indicators information provided; population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Spain: currency information updated; population figure updated; postbox section altered.

Sri Lanka: population figure updated; current affairs information updated.

Sudan: population figure updated; currency information updated.

Suriname: population figure updated.

Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands: population figure updated.

Swaziland: population figure updated; address format information updated.

Sweden: population figure updated.

Switzerland: additional postal code information added; population figure updated.

Syria: population figure updated.

Taiwan: population figure updated.

Tajikistan: population figure updated; postal codes section updated.

Tanzania: population figure updated.

Thailand: additional postal code information added; population figure updated.

Togo: population figure updated.

Tokelau: population figure updated.

Tonga: population figure updated.

Trinidad & Tobago: population figure updated.

Tunisia: population figure updated.

Turkey: population figure updated; additional personal name information added.

Turkmenistan: population figure updated.

Turks & Caicos Islands: population figure updated; postal codes section added.

Tuvalu: population figure updated.

Uganda: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Ukraine: population figure updated; capital city name corrected.

United Arab Emirates: population figure updated.

United Kingdom: population figure updated.

United States of America: additional postal code information added; population figure updated.

United States Virgin Islands: population figure updated.

Uruguay: population figure updated; official country name corrected.

Uzbekistan: population figure updated.

Vanuatu: population figure updated.

Venezuela: population figure updated; official country name corrected; administrative districts section updated; address format example modified; alternative postal code format added.

Vietnam: population figure updated.

Wallis & Futuna: population figure updated.

Western Sahara: population figure updated.

Yemen: population figure updated.

Yugoslavia: currency information updated; population figure updated; current affairs information added.

Zambia: population figure updated.

Zimbabwe: population figure updated.

 

Bibliography: updated

 


 

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