Global Source Book
Update 08v2 (November 2008)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (2nd November 2008) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
Acknowledgements: modified
ISO3166 country codes: codes for East Timor corrected
Country names: additional information added for Albanian, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Belarussian, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Iceland, Irish, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Slovenian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh
World personal name patterns: NEW CHAPTER
World post office box strings: new information added for Czech Republic, Malaysia, Singapore.
World postal code formats: Altered for Colombia, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Panama
World address formats: Altered for Albania, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Sudan
Afghanistan: personal names section added; telephone numbers information modified.
Åland Islands: additional postal code formatting information added.
Albania: new address format information added; additional postal code information added.
Armenia: telephone numbers section added.
Austria: personal names section added.
Bahrain: new telephone number information added.
Bhutan: new transliteration versions of district names added.
Burundi: modified current affairs information
Cape Verde: additional address format information added.
Central African Republic: telephone number information modified.
Chad: new telephone number information
China: current affairs information added; additional address information added.
Colombia: new postal code system.
Comoros: telephone number information modified.
Croatia: additional postal code formatting information added.; additional address format information added; new sub-building strings section added; thoroughfare type strings added; 5 photographs added; additional place name versions added.
Czech Republic: new post office box section added.
Ecuador : telephone number information modified.
Egypt: administrative districts section updated; postal codes per governorate added
Ethiopia: new postal code system added; address format information modified
Finland: additional postal code formatting information added.
Georgia: current affairs information updated.
Guatemala: altered and additional address format information added.
Guinea-Bissau: new telephone number information added.
Haiti: additional postal code formatting information added.
Iran: date format altered; currency information modified; transliterations modified; personal name information modified.
Japan: additional addressing information added.
Kuwait: telephone number information modified.
Lithuania: additional postal code formatting information added.
Malaysia: new address format information added; local postal office box translation added.
Mali: telephone number information updated.
Mauritius: experimental postal code system introduced.
Mexico: additional address format information added.
Moldova: additional postal code formatting information added.
Myanmar: modified current affairs information.
Nepal: new official country name added
Nicaragua: altered address format; modified and new postal code systems described.
Oman: altered address format.
Pakistan: telephone numbers section added.
Panama: new postal code system added; address format information modified; post office box section modified.
Russia: administrative areas section modified
Rwanda: additional official language information added.
Saudi Arabia: new telephone number information added.
Singapore: new post office box information added.
Slovakia: currency information modified.
Slovenia: additional postal code formatting information added.
Spain: photograph added
Sudan: altered address format
Sweden: additional postal code formatting information added.
Thailand: additional address format information added.
Vanuatu: telephone number information updated.
Bibliography: updated
Maps used: updated
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