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Countries, Languages & Continents data (capital and currency, native name, calling codes).
https://annexare.github.io/Countries/
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[Data update] remove `Kosovo` from the list of countries; not in `ISO 3166` #132

Closed o-alexandrov closed 8 months ago

o-alexandrov commented 10 months ago

Data changes

Kosovo should be removed from the list of countries. Or the main readme.md file should be updated to mention the data is not conforming to ISO 3166

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dmythro commented 8 months ago

User-assigned codes is a part of a standard. But I think it would be clearer for them to actually have a temporary or userAssigned flag set in order to properly differentiate.

User-assigned code elements are codes at the disposal of users who need to add further names of countries, territories, or other geographical entities to their in-house application of ISO 3166-1, and the ISO 3166/MA will never use these codes in the updating process of the standard. The following alpha-2 codes can be user-assigned: AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ.

The code XK is being used by the European Commission the IMF, and SWIFT, the CLDR, and other organizations as a temporary country code for Kosovo.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#User-assigned_code_elements