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CountryCodes
Version 1.7.0
December 25 2004

Developed & Published by iZOX ZONE 
⌐ 2000-2004 Saber Naeemi - http://izoxzone.150m.com

 

 Table Of contents
 Introduction

Country Codes is a small database of country codes and additional information for more than 250 countries. It displays their location (continent), ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2-3 codes and ISO number as well as IDDD (International Direct Distance Dialing) country code and flag, FIPS PUB 10-4 and TLD (Top Level Domain) code and the current time in the country, IOC Code, ISO Currency Code and language abbreviation 3-char name. The program provides checkboxes, that allow you to copy all or just selected information to the clipboard. In addition, it provides a handy link for each country that launches your browser with detailed information from the CIA World Fact Book and from the NationMaster website. It also provides options such as exporting to HTML file for printing or other uses. You can even extract the name of country from numeric IP addresses using IP2LocationÖ database and program will automatically display the related information to that country.

Below table explains about each field responsibility:

Country name: As shown in "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries"
Long name: The complete country name which is not commonly used.
Type: Displays the type of selected country.
Dependency Of: no argue!
Location: Where country is located (continent)
TLD code: AKA ccTLD which stands for CountryCode Top Level Domain. See this list by IANA.
ISO Alpha-2: Alpha-2 codes from ISO 3166-1. See this list.
ISO Alpha-3: Alpha-3 codes from ISO 3166-1 (synonymous with World Bank Codes)
ISO Number: Numeric codes from ISO 3166-1
IOC: Codes assigned by the International Olympics Committee. These codes identify the nationality of athletes and teams during Olympic events.
ISO Currency Code: The 3-letter code of country currency unit.
Language abb.: Language name abbreviation, based on NLS Information for Microsoft Windows XP
FIPS: Codes from the U.S. standard FIPS PUB 10-4.
GMT Deviation: Difference between country local time and Greenwich Mean Time in hour.
Extra Information I & II: Provided links will give you a lot of information about each country.
IDDD Code: Which stands for International Distance Direct Dialing Code and will be used when you are going to dial a foreign country.
City: This will only list the most famous cities of specified country with their phone code in front. You can change the city using drop down combo box and see that GMT Deviation changes for them. 

At this time, it is not possible to list all cities of countries and program would not be able to handle it well. But maybe we made a new program called CityCodes which contains information of all world cities! Why not! Lets see what happens.

...well I think other fields don't need any explanation.


The MAP World

There is also a Map World (click on a MAP sign placed just upper right of CountryCodes screen) which allows you to view the exact location of the active country on world. You can even define a position or modify the current location of all given countries.

Print Version

This command will convert all information to HTML tags and creates an html file which can be used for printing purposes or even putting over WebPages.

IP2Country

You can use this option to determine where an IP (or a person) is from. You will probably find this tool very useful if you use IRC.


Some more notes:

ISO 3166-1: The Maintenance Agency for ISO standard 3166 is part of the Deutsches Institut fⁿr Normung (DIN). It maintains an authoritative list of ISO Alpha-2 Codes. Its list is coordinated with a list of countries used by the United Nations Statistics Division for reporting purposes. If I understand correctly, the organization that defines ISO Alpha-3 and Numeric Codes is actually the U.N. Statistics Division.

TLD: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) administers top-level domain names (.com, .edu, .org, and so on). The majority of top-level domain names are referred to as ccTLD, or country-code Top Level Domains. They include .fr, .in, etc. URLs with .fr as their top-level domain are supposed to be assigned to French individuals, organizations, and companies by a French administrative body. IANA has chosen to use ISO 3166 as a basis for the ccTLDs (see their list), and sticks to it very closely.

FIPS 10-4: The FIPS 10-4 page has an official U.S. government listing of codes. I have been told that the Departments of State and Defense use these FIPS codes, while government agencies dealing with international trade and cooperation use the ISO Alpha-2 codes (which are also designated FIPS 104-1, to add to the confusion). Both sets of codes are so entrenched that it's impractical for the U.S. to standardize on just one set.

* (c) some parts are extracted from a article written by Gwillim Law. Click Here
** Revised by Saber Naeemi on 27 Sep 2004

 

 System Requirements

* Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
* 400MHz or faster Processor
* 32MB RAM
* Visual Basic 6 Runtimes (download it here)

 

 Technical Support

If you are experiencing problems with CountryCodes, you can contact us. Remember to include the following information along with a description of your problem so we can help you!

- Operating System (Windows98/ME/2000/XP, etc.)
- CPU type and speed in MHz
- Amount of RAM
- Your country and your language!

Also if you found any wrong given information by CountryCodes (there shouldn't be any due to our hard work and extreme researches) you can let us know, do not forget to include a link to page which contains valid information.

 

 Version History
 
1.7
Dec 25, 2004
Supports XP interface
Added a map of world
Now in system tray
Changes in program interface
Different time zone for each selected city
A lot of other improvements, fixes and new features
1.6
Nov 11, 2004
Not a public release
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1.5
Sep 30, 2004
Some little changes in program interface
Added IOC field
Added ISO Currency Code field
Added Language abbreviation name field
Added full ISO 639 Languages Code database
Added a new link to NationMaster website
You can now print displayed information using the "print version" option
Determine the country of given IP address and view its information
Published a help document with program
and a lot of more new features can not be listed here
also Minor bugs fixed
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1.4.5
Jul 22, 2004
One click on flag picture will enlarge it 
Added Uninstall option 
Lookup for the country over NSRC 
Hotkeys added:
Fixed reported and researched wrong database faults 
some other minor changes and improvements
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1.4
May 13, 2004
Displays country flag
Displays GMT time
Displays current time on specified country
Minor bugs fixed
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1.3.5
Nov 09, 2003
Not a public release
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1.3.2
Nov 07, 2003
Added countries and fixes
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1.3.1
Nov 06, 2003
Added FIPS 10-4 field
Added a link to CIA World Fact book
Most of bugs are now fixed.
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1.0
Nov 03, 2003
Initial release!

 

 Credits
 
Programming, 
Graphic and Documents:
Saber Naeemi
Special Thanks to: Brian Jones
Gwillim Law
Anders Smedman

Hans Christian Ihlen
Adrian Contureyuzon
Hexa Software Development Center - IP2LocationÖ
Others I just forget your name sorry
and of course all of you reading this...
Beta Testers: sa|3er ;)
Phant0M
Crunch
DrDeep
iceStorm

 

 

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