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Global Source Book for International Data Management

Update 12v1 (April 2012)

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This update to the book Global Source Book for International Data Management has been released (3rd April 2012) online and as a pdf file. The following chapters and data have been updated:

New chapter: Country names - Akan (Twi/Fante)

New chapter: Country names - Bambara

New chapter: Country names - Ewe

New chapter: Country names - Faroese

New chapter: Country names - Kiga

New chapter: Country names - Galician

Country names: Additions made for Amharic, Arabic, Azeri, Basque, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Estonian, Farsi, Fula, Gujarati, Irish, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian

New chapter: Standards and coding systems

New chapter: Language scripts

New chapter: Number formats

World address formats: address format for South Africa modified

World postal code formats: additional Iraqi postal code information added; Guernsey information and regular expression updated; Jersey information and regular expression updated; Iraqi postal code regular expression updated; Saint-Barthélemy information updated; South Africa information and regular expression updated; Ukraine information and regular expression updated.

World post office box indicators: Maori version added

Address formats for web forms: format for South Africa modified

Forms of address: information for French and German updated.

Algeria: postal code map added; date formats section added

Armenia: postal codes map added.

Azerbaijan: administrative districts section updated; date formats section added

Bangladesh: date formats section updated

Belarus: date formats section updated

Bhutan: postal codes map added.

Botswana: administrative districts section updated

Brazil: postal codes map added; telephone numbers section updated

British Antarctic Territory: new chapter.

Brunei Darussalam: postal codes information added; postal codes map added.

Bulgaria: postal codes map added.

Cape Verde: postal codes map added.

China: postal code information added; postal codes map added; date formats section modified

Costa Rica: telephone numbers section updated; postal codes map added.

Croatia: postal codes map added.

Cyprus: postal codes map added; additional postal code information added.

Djibouti: telephone numbers section updated.

Egypt: postal codes map added.

El Salvador: telephone numbers section updated

Estonia: date formats section modified

Faeroe Islands: Faeroese versions of administrative district names added.

France: date formats section modified

Gambia: telephone numbers section updated

Georgia: date formats section added

Ghana: telephone numbers section updated

Greenland: date formats section added

Guatemala: postal codes map added.

Guernsey: postal code information added; regular expression updated

Hungary: postal codes map added.

Iceland: diacritical marks added to administrative district names.

Iraq: Postal codes per province added; postal codes map added.

Italy: company legal type added

Ivory Coast: telephone numbers section updated

Jersey: postal code information added; regular expression updated

Latvia: administrative districts section updated

Lebanon: telephone numbers section updated.

Libya: new official country name

Lithuania: postal codes map added.

Luxembourg: date formats section added

Macedonia: date formats section added.

Malaysia: postal codes map added.

Mali: current affairs information added.

Malta: postal codes per locality added.

Mexico: postal codes map added; company legal forms added.

Moldova: post office box section added

Mongolia: date formats section added

Mozambique: telephone numbers section updated.

New Zealand: additional address information added.

Northern Cyprus: local country name form added; country information added; administrative districts section and graphic added.

Norway: additional address format information added.

Oman: company legal forms section added; postal codes per region information corrected; postal codes map added.

Papua New Guinea: postal codes map added.

Poland: photograph added; date formats section modified' postal codes map added.

Portugal: date formats section modified

Romania: date formats section modified.

Russia: date formats section modified.

Saudi Arabia: date formats section added.

Singapore: date formats section modified.

Sint Maarten: telephone numbers section updated; new international telephone dialling code.

Slovenia: date formats section modified.

Somalia: postal codes map added.

South Africa: place names section updated; postal codes per province added; additional postal code information added; additional address format information added.

South Korea: additional address information added.

South Sudan: telephone numbers section added.

Spain: date formats section updated

Sri Lanka: administrative districts section updated; additional personal name information added

Switzerland: postal codes map added.

Tajikistan: date formats section added

Tanzania: administrative districts section updated

Tokelau: telephone numbers section updated.

Trinidad & Tobago: additional postal code information added

Turkmenistan: date formats section added

Uganda: administrative districts section updated; telephone numbers section updated.

United Arab Emirates: company legal forms section added.