Global Source Book
Update 07v1 (April 2007)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (2nd April 2007) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
Acknowledgments: updated.
NEW CHAPTER ADDED: ISO 3166 country codes
World postal code formats: new information for Barbados and Serbia added.
World address formats: new formats for Barbados and British Virgin Islands added.
Country names: names lists added in Albanian, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Belarussian, Bosnian, Catalan, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Telugu, Thai; additional names added for Chinese (Mandarin),Croatian, Czech, Latvian, Maltese.
Afghanistan: population figure updated
Albania: population figure updated; new postal code system information
Algeria: population figure updated
American Samoa: population figure updated
Andorra: population figure updated
Angola: population figure updated
Anguilla: population figure updated
Antigua & Barbuda: population figure updated
Argentina: population figure updated
Armenia: population figure updated
Aruba: population figure updated
Australia: population figure updated
Austria: population figure updated; English versions of region names provided
Azerbaijan: population figure updated
Bahamas: population figure updated
Bahrain: population figure updated; administrative districts section modified
Bangladesh: population figure updated
Barbados: population figure updated; new postal code system information added; new address format information added
Belarus: population figure updated
Belgium: population figure updated
Belize: population figure updated
Benin: population figure updated
Bermuda: population figure updated
Bhutan: population figure updated
Bolivia: population figure updated
Bosnia & Hercegovina: population figure updated
Botswana: population figure updated
Brazil: population figure updated
British Virgin Islands: population figure updated; new postal code information added; new address format information added.
Brunei Darussalam: population figure updated
Bulgaria: population figure updated; ISO 4217 currency code modified.
Burkina Faso: population figure updated
Burundi: population figure updated; administrative regions section updated; telephone numbers section updated
Cambodia: population figure updated
Cameroon: population figure updated
Canada: population figure updated
Cape Verde: population figure updated
Cayman Islands: population figure updated
Central African Republic: population figure updated
Chad: population figure updated
Chile: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
China: population figure updated
Christmas Island: population figure updated
Cocos (Keeling) Islands: population figure updated
Colombia: population figure updated
Comoros: population figure updated; administrative districts section added
Congo (Kinshasa): population figure updated
Congo (Brazzaville): population figure updated; car nationality plate information updated
Costa Rica: population figure updated
Croatia: population figure updated; postal codes per county information added.
Cuba: population figure updated
Cyprus: population figure updated
Czech Republic: population figure updated
Denmark: population figure updated
Djibouti: population figure updated
Dominica: population figure updated
Dominican Republic: population figure updated
East Timor: population figure updated
Ecuador: population figure updated
Egypt: population figure updated
El Salvador: population figure updated
Equatorial Guinea: population figure updated
Eritrea: population figure updated
Estonia: population figure updated
Ethiopia: population figure updated
Faeroe Islands: population figure updated
Fiji: population figure updated
Finland: population figure updated
France: population figure updated
French Guiana: population figure updated
French Polynesia: population figure updated
Gabon: population figure updated
Gambia: population figure updated
Georgia: population figure updated
Germany: population figure updated
Ghana: population figure updated
Gibraltar: population figure updated
Greece: population figure updated
Greenland: population figure updated
Grenada: population figure updated
Guadeloupe: population figure updated
Guam: population figure updated
Guatemala: population figure updated
Guernsey: population figure updated
Guinea: population figure updated
Guinea-Bissau: population figure updated
Guyana: population figure updated
Haiti: population figure updated; new country name version added; administrative districts section updated.
Holy See: population figure updated
Honduras: population figure updated
Hong Kong: population figure updated
Hungary: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Iceland: population figure updated
India: population figure updated; country name version corrected; new place name change information added; administrative districts list updated.
Indonesia: population figure updated
Iran: population figure updated
Iraq: population figure updated
Ireland: population figure updated
Isle of Man: population figure updated
Israel: population figure updated
Italy: population figure updated
Ivory Coast: population figure updated
Jamaica: population figure updated
Japan: population figure updated
Jersey: population figure updated
Jordan: population figure updated
Kazakhstan: population figure updated
Kenya: population figure updated
Kiribati: population figure updated
Kuwait: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Kyrgyzstan: population figure updated
Laos: population figure updated
Latvia: population figure updated
Lebanon: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Lesotho: population figure updated
Liberia: population figure updated
Libya: population figure updated
Liechtenstein: population figure updated
Lithuania: population figure updated
Luxembourg: population figure updated
Macao: population figure updated
Macedonia: population figure updated
Madagascar: population figure updated
Malawi: population figure updated
Malaysia: population figure updated
Maldives: population figure updated
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; country dialling code updated.
Mexico: population figure updated
Micronesia: population figure updated
Moldova: population figure updated; additional postal code information added; province name diacritics corrected; postal code ranges per province added.
Monaco: population figure updated
Mongolia: population figure updated
Montenegro: population figure updated; administrative districts section added.
Montserrat: population figure updated
Morocco: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Mozambique: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Myanmar: population figure updated; new capital city listed.
Namibia: population figure updated
Nauru: population figure updated
Nepal: population figure updated; current affairs information added.
Netherlands: population figure updated
Netherlands Antilles: population figure updated
New Caledonia: population figure updated
New Zealand: population figure updated
Nicaragua: population figure updated
Niger: population figure updated
Nigeria: population figure updated
North Korea: population figure updated
Northern Mariana Islands: population figure updated
Norway: population figure updated
Oman: population figure updated
Pakistan: population figure updated
Palau: population figure updated; capital city name updated.
Panama: population figure updated
Papua New Guinea: population figure updated
Paraguay: population figure updated
Peru: population figure updated
Philippines: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Pitcairn Islands: population figure updated
Poland: population figure updated
Portugal: population figure updated
Puerto Rico: population figure updated
Qatar: population figure updated
Reunion: population figure updated
Romania: population figure updated; currency ISO code updated
Russia: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Rwanda: population figure updated; administrative districts section updated.
Saint Helena: population figure updated
Saint Kitts & Nevis: population figure updated
Saint Lucia: population figure updated
Saint Pierre & Miquelon: population figure updated
Saint Vincent & The Grenadines: population figure updated
Samoa: population figure updated
San Marino: population figure updated
Sao Tome & Principe: population figure updated
Saudi Arabia: population figure updated
Senegal: population figure updated
Serbia: place names table for Kosovo updated and expanded; population figure updated; administrative districts section expanded; new postal code system information added.
Seychelles: population figure updated
Sierra Leone: population figure updated
Singapore: population figure updated
Slovakia: population figure updated
Slovenia: population figure updated
Solomon Islands: population figure updated
Somalia: population figure updated
South Africa: population figure updated; place name changes added.
South Korea: population figure updated
Spain: population figure updated
Sri Lanka: population figure updated
Sudan: population figure updated; administrative regions section modified.
Suriname: population figure updated
Swaziland: population figure updated
Sweden: population figure updated
Switzerland: population figure updated
Syria: population figure updated
Taiwan: population figure updated
Tajikistan: population figure updated
Tanzania: population figure updated; telephone numbers section added.
Thailand: population figure updated
Togo: population figure updated
Tokelau: population figure updated
Tonga: population figure updated; local country name corrected
Trinidad & Tobago: population figure updated
Tunisia: population figure updated
Turkey: population figure updated
Turkmenistan: population figure updated
Turks & Caicos Islands: population figure updated
Tuvalu: population figure updated
Uganda: population figure updated; administrative districts section modified.
Ukraine: population figure updated
United Arab Emirates: population figure updated
United Kingdom: population figure updated
United States of America: population figure updated
United States Minor Outlying Islands: official name information added.
United States Virgin Islands: population figure updated
Uruguay: population figure updated
Uzbekistan: population figure updated
Vanuatu: population figure updated
Venezuela: population figure updated
Vietnam: population figure updated
Yemen: population figure updated
Zambia: population figure updated
Zimbabwe: population figure updated
Bibliography: updated
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