ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-15 (2013-05-10)

ISO 3166-1 NEWSLETTER VI-15 Date: 2013-05-10

Name change for New

ISO 3166-1 Newsletters are issued by the secretariat of the ISO 3166/MA when changes in the code lists of ISO 3166-1 have been decided upon by the ISO 3166/MA. ISO 3166-1 Newsletters are identified by a two-component number, stating the currently valid edition of ISO 3166-1 in Roman numerals (e.g. "V") and a consecutive order number (in Latin numerals) starting with "1" for each new edition of ISO 3166-1. All the changes indicated in this Newsletter refer to changes to be made to ISO 3166-1:2006 as corrected by its Technical Corrigendum 1, ISO 3166-1:2006/Cor 1:2007 (published 2007-07-15), and Newsletters VI-1 to VI-14.

The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency has agreed to the following change(s) to ISO 3166-1:2006, Codes for the representation of names of and their subdivisions — Part 1: codes.

Changes to Alpha 2-code/ Country name/ Short description of change ISO 3166-1:2006 Code alpha 2 Nom de pays Clause 9, p. 23 PG / Change of the full name / Changement Clause 10, p. 38 PAPOUASIE-NOUVELLE- de la forme longue du nom GUINÉE (LA)

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ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-15 (2013-05-10)

Page 23, Clause 9

Replace the entry for PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PG) (additions in red, deletions in blue):

Additional information

COUNTRY English short Inde- Adminis- Adminis- Alpha-2 Alpha-3 Numeric NAME English name lower English full name Remarks pen- trative trative code code code short name case dent language(s) language(s) Local short name(s) alpha-2 code alpha-3code element(s) element(s)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 PAPUA NEW Papua New Independent State of Papua New PG PNG 598 Includes Bismarck Archipelago, Northern # en; ho; - eng; hom; tpi Papua New Guinea; GUINEA Guinea Guinea (Principal island: Papuaniugini; Papuaniugini Bougainville)

Page 38, Clause 10

Replace the entry for PAPOUASIE-NOUVELLE-GUINÉE (PG) as follows (additions in red, deletions in blue):

Information supplémentaire NOM DE PAYS Forme courte Code Indé- Code Code Code langue Code langue française en Forme longue française numé- Remarques pen- Forme courte alpha-2 alpha-3 adminis- adminis- minuscules rique dant Forme courte locale française trative trative alpha-2 alpha-3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

PAPOUASIE- Papouasie- l'État indépendant de Papouasie- PG PNG 598 Y compris: l'Archipel des Bismarck, les # en; ho; - eng; hom; tpi Papua New Guinea; NOUVELLE- Nouvelle- Nouvelle-Guinée Îles Salomon du Nord (île principale: Papuaniugini, Papuaniugini GUINÉE Guinée (la) Bougainville)

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