Magnus Fromreide via tz said:
I do not know why some places get their own 3166 region codes but I suppose it is a thing for autonomus regions.
Originally it was something to do with trade statistics. Codes were given to what the UN recognized as countries *or* places that had international trade that was tracked separately. So it's not so much autonomus regions as physically separate regions. So Corsica doesn't have a code because it's just (for these purposes) an island off the coast of France and Northern Ireland doesn't have a code for much the same reason. While SJ (or Greenland, as part of Denmark) are tracked separately by whichever body was doing the tracking. (Even before the Soviet Union dissolved, Belarus and Ukraine had their own codes because the UN recognized them as separate countries - even though part of the USSR - as a fudge to give the USSR more power in the UN.) -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646