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Define the word country code

"country code" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

country code
     
         Originally, a two-letter abbreviation
        for a particular country, generally used as a top-level domain.
     
        Originally, as the name implies, country codes were meant just
        for countries; but over time, country codes were allocated for
        many areas (mostly islands) that aren't countries -- such as
        Antarctica (aq), Christmas Island (cx) and Saint Pierre et
        Miquelon (pm).
     
        Country codes are based on ISO 3166 and are used as the top
        level domain for Internet hostnames in most countries but
        hardly ever in the USA (code "us").
     
        Latest list (ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes.txt).
     
        (2003-05-02)