Global Source Book
Update 08v1 (April 2008)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (2nd April 2008) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
World address formats: altered for Albania; Kosovo added.
World postal code formats: altered for Ecuador; Kosovo added.
Forms of address: additional information for Chinese, Farsi, Hindi and Spanish. New sections added for Dari, Kurdish, Pashtu, Sinhalese, Tamil.
Country names in different languages: Kosovo added to tables.
Population figures updated for: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faeroe Islands, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, The Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, St Helena, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre & Miquelon, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turk & Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis & Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Afghanistan: personal names section added.
Albania: personal names section added; new thoroughfare types added; address format altered; new address information added.
Barbados: administrative districts section updated.
Bhutan: administrative districts section updated.
Bosnia-Hercegovina: personal names section added.
Brazil: postal codes per state information added
Bulgaria: additional personal naming information added.
Cameroon: telephone number information updated.
China: additional personal naming information added.; postal codes per province information added.
Croatia: additional personal naming information added.; new photograph added.
Cyprus: new currency information
Czech Republic: additional personal naming information added.
Ecuador: new postal code implementation added; new provinces added; telephone numbers section added.
Estonia: telephone numbers section added.
Fiji: official country name altered
Finland: administrative districts section expanded.
French Southern Territories: Country coverage information updated.
Georgia: administrative regions section altered
Guadeloupe: postal code ranges altered.
Haiti: telephone numbers section updated.
Hungary: additional personal naming information added; administrative districts section updated
India: additional personal naming information added.
Indonesia: postal codes per province information added
Iran: additional personal naming information added.
Italy: postal codes per province table updated for Sardinia.
Laos: administrative districts section updated.
Latvia: additional personal naming information added.
Lithuania: additional personal naming information added.
Malaysia: official name updated.
Malta: additional address information added; currency information updated.
Morocco: telephone numbers section updated.
Nigeria: additional personal naming information added.
Norway: postal codes per county information added.
New Zealand: additional postal code information added.
Oman: administrative regions section altered
Philippines: administrative regions section altered
Poland: postal codes per region listing added.
Portugal: additional personal naming information added; administratice districts sections corrected.
Réunion: postal code ranges altered.
Romania: local language name for "postal code" added
Russia: additional personal naming information added; administrative districts section updated.
Saudi Arabia: postal codes per province information added.
Senegal: telephone numbers section updated.
Serbia: photograph added; additional personal naming information added; currency ISO code modified; information refering to Kosovo moved to Kosovo chapter.
Seychelles: administrative districts section altered.
Slovakia: additional personal naming information added.
Slovenia: additional personal naming information added.
Somalia: additional personal naming information added.
South Korea: additional personal naming information added.
Sri Lanka: additional personal naming information added.
St-Barthélemy: postal code ranges added.
St-Martin: postal code ranges added.
Sweden: postal codes per region information added.
Switzerland: additional place name translations added.
Taiwan: additional address information added.
Thailand: additional personal naming information added.
Turkey: currency code updated; postal codes per province added.
Ukraine: personal names section added.
United Kingdom: postal code information updated; administrative districts section updated
Vietnam: additional personal naming information added.
Bibliography: updated
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