Global Source Book
Update 07v2 (November 2007)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (2nd November 2007) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
Country names: names in Irish added. Local language country name added for East Timor, Guam, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea; appearance of local language name corrected for: Taiwan
ISO 3166 codes: Saint-Bathélemy and Saint-Martin added.
World address formats: Format for Costa Rica altered
World postal code formats: Formats for Armenia, Canada, Costa Rica, Malta, San Marino altered.
World post office box strings: formats modified for Costa Rica, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Using the country chapters: new photograph added; section about date and time formats added.
Albania: date formats section added.
Argentina: date formats section added.
Armenia: Postal codes information modified. Postal code ranges per province added; date formats section added.
Australia: date and time formats section added.
Austria: additional information about Kleinwalsertal added; date and time formats section added.
Bangladesh: date formats section added.
Barbados: date formats section added.
Belarus: date formats section added.
Belgium: three new photographs added; date and time formats section added.
Belize: date formats section added.
Bolivia: date formats section added; post office box information added.
Brazil: date and time formats section added.
Bulgaria: date formats section added.
Canada: date and time formats section added; postal code component information corrected.
Chad: administrative districts section modified.
Chile: date formats section added.
China: date and time formats section added.
Colombia: date formats section added.
Costa Rica: address format altered; post office box string altered; postal code format altered; postal codes per province added
Croatia: post office box form corrected; date and time formats section added.
Cyprus: date formats section added; currency information added.
Czech Republic: date formats section added.
Denmark: date and time formats section added.
Dominica: date formats section added.
Dominican Republic: date formats section added.
Ecuador: date formats section added; additional postal code information added.
El Salvador: date formats section added.
Eritrea: personal name information added.
Estonia: date formats section added.
Ethiopia: date and time formats section added; personal name information added.
Finland: date and time formats section added; local language version of "postal code" added.
France: date and time formats section added
French Southern Territories: administrative areas information updated; address formats section added.
Georgia: personal names section added.
Germany: date and time formats section added; address format information for Mannheim added; photograph added.
Greece: date formats section added
Grenada: date formats section added.
Guadeloupe: country population and area information altered to exclude Saint-Martin and Saint-Bartélemy.
Guyana: date formats section added.
Hong Kong: date formats section added.
Hungary: date formats section added.
Iceland: date formats section added.
India: date and time formats section added.
Indonesia: date formats section added.
Iran: administrative districts section updated; diacritics in administrative districts list added; additional personal name information added; date formats section added.
Ireland: date and time formats section added
Israel: additional personal name information added; date formats section added.
Italy: date and time formats section added.
Jamaica: date formats section added.
Japan: date formats section added.
Kenya: date formats section added.
Latvia: date formats section added.
Lithuania: date formats section added.
Luxembourg: new photograph added
Macao: new photograph added; date formats section added.
Macedonia: administrative districts section modified, post office box form modified.
Malaysia: date formats section added.
Maldives: new photograph added
Malta: new postal code system information added; currency information added.
Marshall Islands: local-language country name added
Mexico: date formats section added.
Micronesia: date formats section added.
Montenegro: diacritics in administrative districts list added, post office box form modified; date formats section added.
Morocco: additional information about naming provided.
Nepal: date formats section added.
Netherlands: new photograph added; date and time formats section added.
Netherlands Antilles: new current affairs information added.
New Zealand: additional English/Maori place names added; date formats section added; personal names section added.
Norway: date and time formats section added.
Pakistan: date formats section added.
Palau: date formats section added.
Papua New Guinea: local-language country name added.
Paraguay: date formats section added.
Peru: date formats section added.
Philippines: date formats section added.
Poland: date formats section added.
Portugal: date and time formats section added.
Puerto Rico: date formats section added.
Qatar: telephone number format updated.
Romania: date formats section added; postal codes per county added; personal name section added.
Russia: additional address format information added; list of thoroughfare types in Russian added; administrative districts section altered; date formats section added.
Rwanda: administrative districts section added.
Saint-Bathélemy: new country chapter added.
Saint-Martin: new country chapter added.
Saint Kitts & Nevis: date formats section added.
Saint Lucia: date formats section added.
Saint Vincent & The Grenadines: date formats section added.
San Marino: postal code information corrected.
Serbia: additional postal code information added, post office box form modified; date and time formats section added.
Seychelles: administrative districts section added.
Singapore: date formats section added.
Slovakia: new photograph added; date formats section added; alterations to thoroughfare types list made.
Slovenia: date formats section added.
South Africa: date formats section added.
South Korea: date formats section added.
Spain: date and time formats section added; additional name information added.
Sweden: date and time formats section added.
Switzerland: date and time formats section added
Taiwan: date and time formats section added.
Thailand: date and time formats section added.
Tonga: administrative districts sections added.
Trinidad & Tobago: date formats section added.
Turkey: additional personal name information added; date and time formats section added; local language version of "postal code" added; additional address element information added.
Ukraine: date formats section added.
USA: date and time formats section added
Uruguay: date formats section added.
Venezuela: date formats section added.
Vietnam: date formats section added.
Bibliography: updated
Maps used: updated
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