gisco_countrycode: Database with different country code schemes and world...

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Database with different country code schemes and world regions

Description

A tibble containing conversions between country code schemes (Eurostat, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3) and geographic regions from the World Bank and the UN (M49 Standard). This database was extracted from the countrycode package.

Format

A data frame with 249 rows and 13 variables:

ISO3_CODE

Eurostat code of each country.

CNTR_CODE

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of each country.

iso2c

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of each country.

iso.name.en

ISO English short name.

cldr.short.en

English short name as provided by the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository.

continent

Continent from the World Bank.

un.region.code

Numeric region code UN (M49).

un.region.name

Region name UN (M49).

un.regionintermediate.code

Numeric intermediate region.

un.regionintermediate.name

Intermediate region name UN (M49).

un.regionsub.code

Numeric sub-region code UN (M49).

un.regionsub.name

Sub-region name UN (M49).

eu

Logical value indicating whether the country belongs to the European Union.

World Regions

Regions follow the UN geographic regions (see https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/). Under this scheme Cyprus is assigned to Asia.

Source

countrycode::codelist v1.6.1.

See Also

gisco_get_countries(), countrycode::codelist.

See also Unicode Common Locale Data Repository.

Other datasets: gisco_coastal_lines, gisco_countries_2024, gisco_db, gisco_nuts_2024

Examples

data("gisco_countrycode")
dplyr::glimpse(gisco_countrycode)

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