User:Denelson83/Byte country code

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I have devised a "byte country code", called such because it gives each country in the world a number between 0 and 255 inclusive, essentially allowing every country to be represented by just one byte of data. I conceived this as part of an idea of integrating "location identifiers" into IPv6 addresses. Location identifiers would be two bytes in length, where the first byte draws from the code below, and the second byte represents a first-level administrative division in the country corresponding to the first byte. I have put this code here to make flag tracking easier for myself, as I have recently acquired a brief, but deep interest in flags.

All countries that have officially-assigned and exceptionally-reserved codes (by the ITU and UPU only) in ISO 3166-1, as well as a few other remote autonomous locations, are used in this code. Codes are assigned in a geographical order. Countries in a certain region of the world are grouped into consecutive code ranges. The five major continental areas each have their own code range, and there is also a "wildcard" code range, used to represent regions, and for cases when all countries in a major continental area cannot fit into their corresponding code range.

A few of the numbers in the code below link to their countries' administrative division code lists (the second byte of the two-byte location code).

1 Wildcard
2 Africa
3 Europe
4 Asia
5 Pacific
6 Americas

[edit] Wildcard

000	001	002	003	004	005	006	007
✵
The whole world, or two-byte region codes	Antarctica	Not in use	Not in use	United States Minor Outlying Islands	Faroe Islands	Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands	Heard and McDonald Islands

008	009	010	011	012	013	014	015

Norfolk Island	Clipperton Island	Falkland Islands	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	Saint-Barthélémy	Saint-Martin	British Virgin Islands	Bermuda

[edit] Africa

016	017	018	019	020	021	022	023

Ascension Island	Saint Helena	Tristan da Cunha	Bouvet Island	Mauritius	Réunion	Seychelles	Comoros

024	025	026	027	028	029	030	031

Mayotte	Madagascar	South Africa	Lesotho	Swaziland	Mozambique	Malawi	Zambia

032	033	034	035	036	037	038	039

Zimbabwe	Botswana	Namibia	Angola	Republic of the Congo	Gabon	Equatorial Guinea	São Tomé and Principe

040	041	042	043	044	045	046	047

Cameroon	Central African Republic	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Rwanda	Burundi	Tanzania	Uganda	Kenya

048	049	050	051	052	053	054	055

Somalia	Djibouti	Eritrea	Ethiopia	Sudan	Egypt	Libya	Tunisia

056	057	058	059	060	061	062	063

Algeria	Niger	Chad	Nigeria	Benin	Togo	Ghana	Burkina Faso

064	065	066	067	068	069	070	071

Mali	Côte d'Ivoire	Liberia	Sierra Leone	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Senegal	The Gambia

072	073	074	075	076	077	078	079

Cape Verde	Mauritania	Western Sahara	Morocco	Ceuta and Melilla	Canary Islands	Madeira	Azores

[edit] Europe

080	081	082	083	084	085	086	087

Gibraltar	Portugal	Spain	Andorra	France	Monaco	Malta	Italy

088	089	090	091	092	093	094	095

San Marino	Vatican City	Switzerland	Liechtenstein	Austria	Germany	Luxembourg	Belgium

096	097	098	099	100	101	102	103

Netherlands	Jersey	Guernsey	United Kingdom	Isle of Man	Ireland	Iceland	Norway

104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111

Denmark	Sweden	Åland Islands	Finland	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania	Poland

112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119

Czech Republic	Slovakia	Hungary	Slovenia	Croatia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Montenegro	Serbia

120	121	122	123	124	125	126	127

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	Albania	Greece	Bulgaria	Romania	Moldova	Ukraine	Belarus

[edit] Asia

128	129	130	131	132	133	134	135

Russia	Georgia	Azerbaijan	Armenia	Turkey	Cyprus	Syria	Lebanon

136	137	138	139	140	141	142	143

Israel	Palestine	Jordan	Saudi Arabia	Yemen	Oman	United Arab Emirates	Qatar

144	145	146	147	148	149	150	151

Bahrain	Kuwait	Iraq	Iran	Turkmenistan	Uzbekistan	Kazakhstan	Kyrgyzstan

152	153	154	155	156	157	158	159

Tajikistan	Afghanistan	Pakistan	India	Nepal	Bhutan	Sri Lanka	Maldives

160	161	162	163	164	165	166	167

British Indian Ocean Territory	French Southern Territories	Christmas Island	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Bangladesh	Myanmar	Laos	Viet Nam

168	169	170	171	172	173	174	175

Cambodia	Thailand	Malaysia	Singapore	Brunei	Indonesia	East Timor	Philippines

176	177	178	179	180	181	182	183

Taiwan	Macau	Hong Kong	People's Republic of China	Mongolia	North Korea	South Korea	Japan

[edit] Pacific

184	185	186	187	188	189	190	191

Palau	Northern Mariana Islands	Marshall Islands	Guam	Federated States of Micronesia	Papua New Guinea	Australia	New Zealand

192	193	194	195	196	197	198	199

New Caledonia	Vanuatu	Solomon Islands	Nauru	Kiribati	Tuvalu	Wallis and Futuna	Fiji

200	201	202	203	204	205	206	207

Tonga	Niue	American Samoa	Samoa	Tokelau	Cook Islands	French Polynesia	Pitcairn Islands

[edit] Americas

208	209	210	211	212	213	214	215

Chile	Argentina	Uruguay	Brazil	Paraguay	Bolivia	Peru	Ecuador

216	217	218	219	220	221	222	223

Colombia	Venezuela	Guyana	Suriname	French Guiana	Trinidad and Tobago	Netherlands Antilles	Aruba

224	225	226	227	228	229	230	231

Grenada	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Barbados	Saint Lucia	Martinique	Dominica	Guadeloupe	Montserrat

232	233	234	235	236	237	238	239

Antigua and Barbuda	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Anguilla	United States Virgin Islands	Puerto Rico	Dominican Republic	Turks and Caicos	Haiti