GRC Database Information

Country names:Åland Islands added

World address formats: format for Senegal altered; new format for Austria and Åland Islands added; formats for Morocco and Western Sahara altered

World Postbox Formats: entry added for Åland Islands

Diacritical marks chapter: additions made for Slovak.

Afghanistan: population figure updated; official country name updated

Åland Islands: New chapter added.

Albania: population figure updated; administrative districts list updated.

Algeria: population figure updated.

American Samoa: population figure updated.

Andorra: population figure updated.

Angola: population figure updated; currency code corrected.

Anguilla: population figure updated.

Antigua & Barbuda: population figure updated.

Argentina: population figure updated; postal code per province information provided. 

Armenia: population figure updated.

Aruba: population figure updated; company types section added.

Australia: population figure updated; company types section added.

Austria: population figure updated; additional address format information added; company types section expanded.

Azerbaijan: population figure updated; new postal code system described.

Bahamas: population figure updated; company types section added.

Bahrain: population figure updated.

Bangladesh: population figure updated.

Barbados: population figure updated.

Belarus: population figure updated; ISO currency code updated.

Belgium: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Belize: population figure updated.

Benin: population figure updated.

Bermuda: population figure updated.

Bhutan: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Bolivia: population figure updated.

Bosnia Hercegovina: population figure updated.

Botswana: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; company types section added.

Brazil: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

British Virgin Islands: population figure updated.

Brunei Darussalam: population figure updated.

Bulgaria: population figure updated; company types section added.

Burkina Faso: population figure updated.

Burundi: population figure updated.

Cambodia: population figure updated.

Cameroon: population figure updated.

Canada: population figure updated; company types section added.

Cape Verde: population figure updated; new postal code system explained; address format section updated.

Cayman Islands: population figure updated.

Central African Republic: population figure updated.

Chad: population figure updated.

Chile: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

China: population figure updated.

Christmas Island: population figure updated.

Cocos (Keeling) Islands: population figure updated.

Colombia: population figure updated; region names list modified; company types section added.

Comoros: population figure updated; official country name updated.

Congo (Brazzaville): population figure updated.

Congo (Kinshasa): population figure updated.

Cook Islands: population figure updated.

Costa Rica: population figure updated.

Croatia: population figure updated; company types section added.

Cuba: population figure updated.

Czech Republic: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Denmark: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Djibouti: population figure updated.

Dominica: population figure updated.

Dominican Republic: population figure updated.

East Timor: population figure updated; official country name updated.

Ecuador: population figure updated; Internet country code corrected; company types section added.

Egypt: population figure updated.

El Salvador: population figure updated.

Equatorial Guinea: population figure updated.

Eritrea: population figure updated; capital city spelling altered; car nationality plate code added.

Estonia: population figure updated; spelling of Tallinn corrected; company types section added.

Ethiopia: population figure updated.

Faeroe Islands: population figure updated.

Fiji: population figure updated.

Finland: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

France: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

French Guiana: population figure updated.

French Polynesia: population figure updated.

Gabon: population figure updated.

The Gambia: population figure updated.

Georgia: population figure updated; current affairs section updated.

Germany: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Ghana: population figure updated.

Gibraltar: population figure updated.

Greece: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Greenland: population figure updated.

Grenada: population figure updated.

Guadeloupe: population figure updated.

Guam: population figure updated.

Guatemala: population figure updated.

Guinea: population figure updated.

Guinea-Bissau: population figure updated.

Haiti: population figure updated; current affairs section updated.

Holy See: population figure updated.

Honduras: population figure updated.

Hong Kong: population figure updated.

Hungary: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Iceland: population figure updated; company types section added.

India: population figure updated; new Indian city names added; postal codes per region table updated and corrected; additional postal code information provided.

Indonesia: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; company types section expanded.

Iran: population figure updated.

Iraq: population figure updated.

Ireland: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Isle of Man: population figure updated.

Israel: population figure updated.

Italy: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Ivory Coast: population figure updated; company types section added.

Jamaica: population figure updated.

Japan: population figure updated.

Jersey: population figure updated.

Jordan: population figure updated; capital city transliteration 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.

Laos: population figure updated.

Latvia: population figure updated.

Lebanon: population figure updated; administrative districts list updated.

Lesotho: population figure updated.

Liberia: population figure updated; current affairs information updated.

Libya: population figure updated; current affairs information updated.

Liechtenstein: population figure updated.

Lithuania: population figure updated.

Luxembourg: population figure updated; all place names in Lëtzebuergesch, French and German added to place names list; company types section expanded.

Macao: population figure updated; ISO4217 currency code added.

Macedonia: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.

Madagascar: population figure updated; postal code information updated; postal codes per province table added.

Malawi: population figure updated.

Malaysia: population figure updated; administrative districts list corrected; company types section added.

Maldives: population figure updated; new postal code information added. 

Mali: population figure updated.

Malta: population figure updated.

Marshall Islands: population figure updated.

Martinique: population figure updated.

Mauritania: population figure updated.

Mauritius: population figure updated.

Mayotte: population figure updated.

Mexico: population figure updated; company types section updated.

Micronesia: population figure updated.

Moldova: population figure updated; administrative districts list corrected.

Monaco: population figure updated.

Mongolia: population figure updated.

Montserrat: population figure updated.

Morocco: population figure updated; additional address format information added; company types section added.

Mozambique: population figure updated.

Myanmar: population figure updated.

Namibia: population figure updated.

Nauru: population figure updated.

Nepal: population figure updated.

Netherlands: population figure updated; additional address format information provided; personal names section updated; company types section expanded.

Netherlands Antilles: population figure updated; company types section added.

New Caledonia: population figure updated.

New Zealand: population figure updated; administrative districts list updated; company section added; address format section expanded, including addition of abbreviation lists.

Nicaragua: population figure updated.

Niger: population figure updated.

Nigeria: population figure updated.

Niue: population figure updated.

Norfolk Island: population figure updated.

North Korea: population figure updated.

Northern Mariana Islands: population figure updated.

Norway: population figure updated; company types added; additional address format information added.

Oman: population figure updated.

Pakistan: population figure updated.

Palau: population figure updated.

Panama: population figure updated.

Papua New Guinea: population figure updated; postal code information added; postal codes per province added.

Paraguay: population figure updated.

Peru: population figure updated; company types section added.

Philippines: population figure updated; list of provinces and chartered cities added.

Poland: population figure updated; country area altered (small boundary changes with Slovakia); company types section expanded.

Portugal: population figure updated; Internet country code corrected; company types section expanded.

Puerto Rico: population figure updated.

Qatar: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.

Réunion: population figure updated; company types section added.

Romania: population figure updated; official local country name added; additional postal code information added.

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

Rwanda: population figure updated.

Saint Helena: population figure updated.

Saint Kitts and Nevis: population figure updated.

Saint Lucia: population figure updated.

Saint Pierre et Miquelon: population figure updated.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: population figure updated.

Samoa: population figure updated; ISO 4217 code updated.

San Marino: population figure updated.

Sao Tome and Principe: population figure updated.

Saudi Arabia: population figure updated.

Senegal: population figure updated; new postal code system described. 

Serbia and Montenegro: population figure updated.

Seychelles: population figure updated.

Sierra Leone: population figure updated.

Singapore: population figure updated.

Slovakia: population figure updated; country area altered (small boundary changes with Poland); company types section expanded.

Slovenia: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Solomon Islands: population figure updated; current affairs information updated.

Somalia: population figure updated.

South Africa: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated; company types section added.

South Korea: population figure updated.

Spain: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Sri Lanka: population figure updated; additional postal code information added.

Sudan: population figure updated.

Suriname: population figure updated; new currency added.

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands: population figure updated.

Swaziland: population figure updated.

Sweden: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Switzerland: population figure updated; official country name in English corrected.

Syria: population figure updated.

Tajikistan: population figure updated; ISO currency code added.

Taiwan: population figure updated; ISO currency code added.

Tanzania: population figure updated.

Thailand: population figure updated.

Togo: population figure updated.

Tokelau: population figure updated.

Tonga: population figure updated.

Trinidad & Tobago: population figure updated.

Tunisia: population figure updated; alternative transliterations for governorates provided; postal code regions per governorate provided.

Turkey: population figure updated; company types section expanded.

Turkmenistan: population figure updated.

Turks & Caicos Islands: population figure updated.

Tuvalu: population figure updated.

Uganda: population figure updated.

Ukraine: population figure updated.

United Arab Emirates: population figure updated.

United Kingdom: population figure updated; Internet country code corrected; additional postal code information provided.

United States of America: population figure updated; company types section added.

United States Virgin Islands: population figure updated.

Uruguay: population figure updated; company types section added.

Uzbekistan: population figure updated.

Vanuatu: population figure updated.

Venezuela: population figure updated; company types section added.

Vietnam: population figure updated.

Wallis and Futuna: population figure updated.

Western Sahara: population figure updated.

Yemen: population figure updated.

Zambia: population figure updated.

Zimbabwe: population figure updated.

Bibliography: updated.