This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (25th November 1999) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
ALL
COUNTRIES: addition of ISO 4217
currency codes; ISO 3166 country codes, car nationality
plate
codes and internet country codes; and population figures updated.
Addition
of photographs
The
name Brunei changed to Brunei Darussalam throughout
The
order of the chapters Guinea and Guinea-Bissau reversed to create
correct alphabetical ordering.
Contents:
Afghanistan, Anguilla, Barbnados, Bhutan, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean
Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands; East Timor, Falkland Islands, French
Southern Territories, Gambia,The, Gibraltar, Heard and McDonald Islands, Hong
Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Macao, Mauritius, Montserrat, Myanmar, Netherlands
Antilles, Niue, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Saint
Helena, Somalia/Somaliland, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands,
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Taiwan, Tokelau, Tonga, Turks and Caicos
Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Western Sahara added
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
photograph added
World
Address Formats: New address
formats (numbers 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99,100,101,102, 103) added.
Argentina, British Virgin Islands, Taiwan altered. Antigua and Barbuda;
Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands; East Timor, Falkland Islands, The
Gambia, Gibraltar, Liberia, Mauritius, Netherlands Antilles, Niue, Norfolk
Island, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Sahara
added; Chile, Myanmar modified
World
Postal Code Formats: Afghanistan,
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bhutan, Bouvet Island, British Indian
Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling)
Islands, Cook Islands; East Timor, Falkland Islands, The Gambia, Gibraltar,
Heard and McDonald Islands, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Liberia, Mauritius, Montserrat,
Myanmar, Netherlands Antilles, Niue, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn
Islands, Somalia/Somaliland, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St
Helena, Taiwan, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Sahara added; Chile altered
World
Postbox Formats: Argentina,
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bulgaria, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands,
Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands; East Timor, Falkland Islands, The
Gambia, Gibraltar, Greece, Heard and McDonald Islands, Hong Kong, Lebanon,
Liberia, Montserrat, Myanmar, Netherlands Antilles, Niue, Norfolk Island, Papua
New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St
Helena, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu added
Salutations:
new section for Japanese added
Danish:
correction to ASCII alternative to å.
Afghanistan:
added (no postal data): general information; languages; provinces
Angola:
administrative districts section added
Anguilla:
added: general information, languages, postal codes, telephone numbers
Antigua
and Barbuda: added: general
information, languages, address formats, postal codes, administrative districts,
telephone numbers
Argentina:
new street address format; new
street address format examples; new mailing address format; new mailing address
examples; new postbox section added
Aruba:
added: general information, languages; address format; postal codes, telephone
numbers
Austria:
local name for "postal code" added
Bahamas:
alterations to island names list
Barbados:
added: general information; languages; postal codes, administrative districts;
telephone numbers
Belgium:
local name for "postal code" added
Belize:
administrative districts section added
Bhutan:
added: general information, languages, postal codes, administrative districts
Bouvet
Island: added: general information
Brazil:
currency name correction
British
Indian Ocean Territory: added:
general information; postal information
British
Virgin Islands: added: general
information; languages; address formats; postal codes; telephone numbers
Bulgaria:
postbox string information added
Cambodia:
added: general information; languages
Cayman
Islands: added: general
information; languages; administrative districts; telephone numbers
Chile:
new address formats added; new postal code system outlined
China:
administrative districts section added
Christmas
Island: added: general
information; languages, postal codes
Cocos
(Keeling) Islands: added: general
information; languages; postal codes
Cook
Islands: added: general
information; languages; postal codes
Cyprus:
name of Turkish-controlled area; currency in Turkish-controlled area.
Denmark:
local name for "postal code" added; minor corrections to some data
East
Timor: added: general information
Eritrea:
alteration in currency name; administrative districts section added
Falkland
Islands: added: general
information; languages; address formats; postal codes; telephone numbers
Fiji:
corrected official country name
France:
alteration in number of post offices; additional information about CÉDEX codes;
photograph added
French
Southern Territories: added:
general information, languages; administrative districts
Gambia,
The: added: general information,
languages; example address formats; postal codes; telephone numbers;
administrative districts
Ghana:
administrative districts section added
Gibraltar:
added: general information; languages; example address formats; postal codes;
telephone numbers
Greece:
postbox string information added
Guatemala:
settlement names section added, new name for capital city added
Heard
and McDonald Islands: added:
general information
Hong
Kong: added: general information;
example address format; postal codes; telephone numbers
Hungary:
additional postal code information
Iceland:
additional personal name conventions information added; administrative districts
section updated
India:
Indian name for postal codes added; additional postal code format information
added; extra region information added; town names added and updated
Indonesia:
current affairs section updated; provincial names added; directionals in
Indonesian added; alternative place name section added; all East Timor sections
altered
Iran:
new section administrative districts
Iraq:
added: general information, languages, administrative districts
Ireland:
two photographs added.
Italy:
two photographs added
Jamaica:
administrative districts section added
Japan:
extra address block information added; administrative districts section added
Jersey:
official country name added
Jordan:
administrative districts section added
Kazakhstan:
new currency data; settlement section added; administrative district section
added
Kenya:
administrative districts section added
Kiribati:
capital city corrected; administrative districts section added
Kuwait:
administrative districts section added
Kyrgyzstan:
new currency added; administrative districts section added
Lebanon:
added: general information, languages, addresses, postal codes, administrative
districts
Laos:
additional postal code information added, administrative districts section added
Latvia:
adjustment made to address format information; administrative districts section
added
Lesotho:
administrative districts added
Liberia:
added: general information, address formats, postal code format, administrative
districts, telephone numbers
Libya:
currency data updated
Liechtenstein:
list of municipalities added
Lithuania:
administrative districts section added
Macao:
added: general information, languages
Macedonia:
additional address data added; information about country name added
Madagascar:
administrative districts section added
Malawi:
administrative districts section added
Malaysia:
settlement section moved to street type section; street type section updated;
administrative districts section updated;
Maldives:
extra language information added; adminiustrative districts section added
Mali:
administrative districts section added
Marshall
Islands: official name data added
Mauritania:
administratived regions section added
Mauritius:
added: general, languages, telkephone numbers, administrative districts, psotal
codes, address format
Mexico:
Spanish name for "states" added
Moldova:
political situation in Transdniestr updated
Monaco:
correct country name in French added, administrative districts section added
Mongolia:
correct local version country name added, administrative districts section added
Mozambique:
administrative districts section added
Montserrat:
added: general; languages; telephone numbers; administrative districts
Myanmar:
added: general; languages; address format, postal code, settlement names,
administrative districts
Namibia:
Political situation update; administrative districts section added
Nauru:
administrative districts section corrected
Nepal:
administrative districts section added
Netherlands:
local name for "postal code" added; photograph added
Netherlands
Antiilles: added: general,
languages; address format
New
Caledonia: official name added;
administrative districts section added
Nicaragua:
administrative districts section added
Niger:
administrative districts section added
Nigeria:
administrative districts added
Niue:
added: general; languages; example address format; postal codes; telephone
numbers
Norfolk
Island: added: general, languages,
address formats, postal codes; telephone numbers
Northern
Mariana Islands: official name
corrected; additional address format and delivery informaiton added.
Norway:
singular of Norwegian name for "province" added
Oman:
administrative districts section added
Pakistan:
administrative districts section added
Palau:
Local country name added; address information added.
Papua
New Guinea: added: general;
languages; example address formats; posta codes; administrative districts
Paraguay:
new postal code system; administrative districts section added
Peru:
administrative districts section added
Pitcairn
Islands: added: general;
languages; address formats; postal codes
Poland:
"province" in Polish corrected
Portugal:
"district" and "autonomous region" in Portuguese added
Qatar:
administrative districts section added
Réunion:
official name added
Romania:
administrative districts section slightly altered
Russia:
current affairs section updated; administrative districts section added
Rwanda:
administrative districts section added
St
Helena: added: general
information; languages; address formats (Ascension Island); telephone numbers
St
Kitts and Nevis: administrative
districts section added; additional address format data added
St
Lucia: address format information
added; administrative districts section added
St
Pierre & Miquelon: official
name added
St
Vincent and the Grenadines:
administrative districts section added
San
Marino: administrative districts
section expanded
Sao
Tome & Principe:
administrative districts section added
Saudi
Arabia: administrative districts
section added
Senegal:
administrative districts section added
Seychelles:
administrative districts section added
Sierra
Leone: administrative districts
section added
Slovakia:
administrative districts section expanded
Somalia/Somaliland:
added: general data; languages; administrative districts
South
Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands:
added:
South
Korea: administrative districts
section added
Sri
Lanka: administrative districts
section added
Sudan:
administrative districts section added
Suriname:
administrative districts section added
Svalbard
and Jan Mayen Islands: added:
general information, languages
Sweden:
postal code 47 removed as being an invalid code; administrative districts
section updated for changes 1.1.1999
Switzerland:
number of cantons corrected; local names for the word "cantons" added
Syria:
administrative districts section added
Taiwan:
added: general information, languages, address formats, thoroughfare types;
postal codes, towns, administrative districts
Tajikistan:
towns section added, admnistrative districts section added
Tanzania:
administrative districts section added
Thailand:
towns section added; administrative districts section added
Togo:
administrative districts section added
Tokelau:
added: general information, languages, telephone numbers
Tonga:
added: general information, languages, address formats, postal codes, telephone
numbers, administrative districts
Trinidad
and Tobago: administrative
districts section added
Tunisia:
administrative districts section added
Turkey:
administrative districts section added
Turkmenistan:
administrative districts added
Turks
and Caicos Islands: added: general
information, languages, telephone numbers
Uganda:
administrative districts section added
Ukraine:
administrative districts section added
United
Arab Emirates: slight alteration
to administrative districts section
United
States: slight alteration to
administrative districts section
United
States Minor Outlying Islands:
added: general information; languages
Uruguay:
administrative districts section added
Uzbekistan:
new currency; settlement names section added; administrative districts section
added
Vanuatu:
added: general information, languages, address formats, postal codes,
administrative districts, telephone numbers
Vatican
City: alternate official name
added
Vietnam:
administrative districts section added
Wallis
& Futuna Islands: official
name added
Western
Sahara: added: general information
Western
Samoa: renamed Samoa and moved to
new place in file. All references updated.
Yemen:
administrative districts section added
Yugoslavia:
current affairs section updated, administrative districts section added;
currency information updated.
Zambia:
administrative district section added
Zimbabwe:
administrative districts section added
Bibliography
Global Source Book
Update 99v2 (May 1999)
Acknowledgements
New chapter created: Postal Country
Codes
World Postal Code Formats: corrected code
formats for Argentina, Brunei, Estonia and Portugal. Added for
Bermuda.
Diacritical marks: slight change in German rule
when using hyphen; slight addition to Polish section
Salutations: added for Macedonian, additions to
Polish salutation data
Algeria: administrative areas section added,
list of administrative areas with postal codes added
Argentina: new postal code implementation dates
altered
Armenia: personal names section added
Bosnia Hercegovina: new map showing ethnic
boundary/Dayton agreement line
Bermuda: country added: address format, postal
code data, telephone numbers
Brunei: new address format, new postal code
system, list of thoroughfare types/other common words added
China: personal names section added
Estonia: new address format, new postal code
system, administrative areas section added
Finland: personal names section added
France: information on given name formation
added
Germany: town name hyphenation information;
personal name section added
Indonesia: company type section added
Italy: information on given name formation added
Japan: personal names section added
Kyrgyzstan: personal names section added
Lithuania: personal names section added
Macedonia: company name, company type, personal
names and thoroughfare types sections added
Malaysia: personal names section added
Netherlands: new list of prepositions used in
family names
Poland: family name forms and order information
added
South Korea: personal names section added
Spain: information on given name formation added
Sri Lanka: sorting code data for Colombo added
Sweden: Family name information added
Switzerland: corrections to Romance town name
table, additions to Romance and German name alternatives tables
for Romance and German
Turkey: slight changes to address format
pattern; additional personal name information added
United Kingdom: Square mileage corrected, use of
"Derry" altered.
United States of America: information on the use
of diacritics and possessive apostrophes in place names
Global Source Book
Update 99v1
Acknowledgments
Diacritical marks: corrections and additions for
Turkish
Argentina: new postal code system
Australia: additional address format information added
Austria: new currency
Belgium: new currency
Bosnia-Hercegovina: new currency
Bulgaria: correction in language section; correction to
example address; language correction in Administrative Districts
section
Canada: Changed to incorporate changes for new province;
provincial/postal code map updated
Czech Republic: many new town names added
Finland: new currency
France: new currency; new language legislation
Germany: new currency
Greece: corrections to the Macedonian settlement name
list; Name of Greece in Greek - alternative added
Ireland: new currency; sorting code information added
Italy: new currency
Luxembourg: new currency
Macedonia: information about the country name; language
data updated; address example improved; thoroughfare type
information added
Malaysia : Malay word for postal code added; new town
names and abbreviations section; new administrative districts
section added
Morocco: current affairs
The Netherlands: new currency; telephone numbers section
added
Norway: postal code changes
Pakistan: year of postal code introduction added
Poland: Polish word for postal code added; major additions
and improvements to town names list; new provinces list; new
provinces map
Portugal: Portuguese word for postal code added; new
currency; new postal code system
South Korea: additional address format information
Spain: Spanish word for postal code added; new currency
Turkey: new town list with dotted and dotless 'i's added
Bibliography
Maps Used
Global Source Book
Update 98v1
Acknowledgments
World Address Formats: typesetting errors corrected,
duplicate country name removed
World Postal Code Formats: format for Pakistan corrected
World Postbox Indicators: added for Turkey
Job titles: additions/corrections for German; new
section concerning French female job titles added; several new
titles added for French, German, Dutch and Italian.
Salutations: typesetting corrections; added for
Turkish; alteration for German
Mail Return Codes: slight addition for German
Australia: postal code range correction for New South
Wales; postal codes for overseas' territories added
Cyprus: population numbers and distribution between ethnic
areas
Equatorial Guinea: languages
Faeroe Islands: postal code information correction
Germany: correction to company type list;
corrections/additions to names of Regierungsbezirke
Greenland: Town names added
Indonesia: Indonesian name of postal code added
Italy: language distribution; addressing in villages
without street names explained; addresses in Venice
explained; addresses in Valle d'Aosta explained; updated
thoroughfare list; town name alternative for Walser
villages given.
Morocco: NEW: map of postal code areas; expanded postal
codes information section; list of building and
thoroughfare indicators
Netherlands: two Italian town name equivalents added; new
service PostApart address formats described
New Zealand: Rural Delivery address formats explained
Sweden: map of postal code areas - correction to previous
map to take changes into account; splitting of map into two maps
(north and south) to show more detailed postal area coverage
Turkey: contact names section added; company types
corrected and added to; address format information added; town
names section corrected; thoroughfare type list added; postbox
section added.