Global Source Book
Update 06v2 (October 2006)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (10th October 2006) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
Diacritical marks: Notes on new German spelling rules added.
Forms of address: Additional information for Thai added.
Country names: alteration in the German section; Serbia and Montenegro split; new local versions added; new Icelandic versions added; new Latvian versions added; new Norwegian versions added. New language versions added: Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Turkish
World address formats: Serbia and Montenegro split; New Zealand format modified; Cayman Islands modified
World postal code formats: Serbia & Montenegro split; Cayman Islands added
World post office box indicators: Serbia & Montenegro split
Job titles: new titles added for Italian and Dutch
Using the country chapters: extra information on post office box address formats added.
Afghanistan: Dari/Pushtan script country name version added.
Algeria: Arabic script country name added
Armenia: Armenian script country name added.
Azerbaijan: Company types section added.
Bahrain: Company types section added; Arabic script country name added
Barbados: Company types section added.
Belarus: Cyrillic script country name added.
Belize: Company types section added.
Benin: Company types section added.
Bermuda: Company types section added.
Bolivia: Company types section added.
Bosnia-Hercegovina: Company types section added; Cyrillic script country name added.
British Virgin Islands: Company types section added.
Brunei Darussalam: Company types section added.
Burma: New capital city added.
Cayman Islands: Company types section added; additional information about country name added; address formats section modified and overhauled; postal code section added; official postal thoroughfare list added.
Central African Republic: Sango country name added.
Chad: Arabic transliterated and script country name added.
Chile: Company types section expanded.
China: place name section expanded; pictogram script country name added.
Colombia: Company types section expanded.
Comoros: Arabic transliterated and script country name added.
Costa Rica: Company types section added.
Croatia: Company types section modified.
Cyprus: Company types section added; Greek script country name added.
Czech Republic: Company types section modified.
Egypt: Arabic script country name added.
Estonia: Company types section expanded.
Finland: Photograph added; Company types section expanded.
France: Company types section expanded.
Greece: Company types section expanded.
Guinea: Telephone number section updated
Guatemala: Company types section added.
Guernsey: ISO3166 country codes added, Company types section added.
Haiti: Haitian Creole French country name added.
Hong Kong: Company types section added.
Iceland: Company types section expanded.
India: place name section expanded.
Indonesia: Company types section expanded.
Iran: Company types section added; Farsi country name script added.
Iraq: Arabic script/Kurdish country names added.
Ireland: Company types section expanded.
Isle of Man: ISO3166 country codes added.
Israel: Arabic and Hebrew script country name versions added.
Italy: Company types section expanded.
Japan: Company types section expanded; pictogram script country name added.
Jersey: ISO3166 country codes added.
Kazakhstan: Company types section added; Cyrrilic script country name added.
Kuwait: Company types section added; Arabic script country name added.
Kyrgyzstan: Cyrillic script country name added.
Laos: Company types section added.
Latvia: Company types section added.
Lebanon: Arabic script country name added.
Macedonia: Company types section expanded.
Malaysia: Company types section expanded.
Maldives: Divehi script country name added.
Malta: Company types section added.
Mauritania: Arabic script country name added
Mauritius: Company types section added.
Mexico: Company types section expanded.
Moldova: Company types section added.
Mongolia: Cyrillic script country name added.
Montenegro: added; Company types section added.
Morocco: Arabic script country name added.
Netherlands: some Frisian place names corrected; new company type added; new telephone number information added.
Netherlands Antilles: Company types section expanded.
New Zealand: new postal address formats added; new postal code system information added.
Niger: Telephone number section updated.
North Korea: Pictogram script country name added.
Oman: Arabic script country name added.
Panama: Company types section added.
Peru: Company types section expanded.
Philippines: Company types section added.
Qatar: Company types section added; Arabic script country name added.
Romania: Company types section expanded.
Russia: Company types section added; additional place name information added; administrative regions list modified.
Saint Kitts & Nevis: Company types section added.
Saint Vincent & The Grenadines: Company types section added.
Saudi Arabia: Arabic script country name added.
Serbia & Montenegro: Split into separate chapters
Serbia: added; Company types section added.
Singapore: Company types section added; Pictogram and Tamil script country names added.
Slovakia: Company types section expanded.
Slovenia: Company types section expanded.
Solomon Islands: Company types section added.
South Africa: Company types section expanded; Xhosa and Zulu language country name versions added.
South Korea: Company types section added; Pictogram script country name added.
Spain: Basque, Catalan and Galician country name versions added.
Sri Lanka: Tamil script version country name added.
Sudan: Administratice districts section updated.
Swaziland: Company types section added.
Sweden: Company types section expanded.
Switzerland: Company types section expanded.
Taiwan: pictogram script country name version added.
Thailand: Thai script country name version added.
Tunisia: Company types section added; Arabic script country name version added.
Turks & Caicos Islands: Company types section added.
Uganda: Administrative regions section updated.
Ukraine: Company types section added; Cyrrilic script country name version added.
United Arab Emirates: Arabic script country name version added.
United States of America: Company types section expanded.
Uruguay: Company types section expanded; postal code ranges per province added.
Vanuatu: Company types section added.
Yemen: Arabic script country name version added.
Bibliography: updated.
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