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Global Source Book

Update 00v2  (December 2000)


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This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data Management has been released (6th December 2000) as an Adobe Acrobat file.  The following chapters and data have been updated:

 

Acknowledgements: updated

World Address Formats: Albania; Bhutan; Cook Islands; Lebanon, Macao, Nigeria, Samoa, Wallis & Futuna added; new formats (108, 109, 110, 111, 112) added; Ireland, Portugal, United Kingdom structure modified; Armenia, Azerbaijan altered.

World Postal Code Formats: St Helena, Wallis & Futuna added

World Postbox Formats: alternative transliterations added for Greek, additional string added for Nigeria; Cyprus (Greek), Cyprus (Turkish), Israel, Puerto Rico added

NEW CHAPTER: Country names: country names in different languages: English, local language(s), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, some Norwegian, some Finnish.

 

Afghanistan: example address formats section added

Albania: example address format added

Armenia: address format section added

Azerbaijan: address format section added; town names added to town names section; town names listing order corrected.

Bahrain: extra postal code information added.

Belgium: province data additional data..

Bhutan: example address formats section added

Congo (Brazzaville) - official country name corrected.

Congo (Kinshasa) - ISO 3166-alphanumeric 2 updated.

Cook Islands: example address format section added

Cyprus: postbox section added for Greek.

Ecuador: the local name for 'postal code' added.

France: Wallis & Futuna postal code information added; communes sharing the same postal code - list updated; number of cédex codes updated; postal codes for military addresses added.

Greece: Postbox section added

Greenland: language name information updated.

Hong Kong: Address format section added, with full postal address format information.

Iraq: example address format section added

Ireland: Address format refined.

Israel: Internet country code for Palestinian Authority areas added; planned international telephone code for the Palestinian Authority areas added; ISO country codes for Palestinian Authority areas added; Postbox section added

Lebanon: example address format section

Liberia: layout of county list corrected.

Macao: example address format section

Macedonia: postal codes section updated; postal code list corrected; map of Macedonia with Albanian-speaking areas added.

Nigeria: extra address format information added

Portugal: Address format altered and refined to reflect new postal code format.

Puerto Rico: address format section updated and expanded; thoroughfares section added; postbox section added.

Romania: thoroughfare types section added

St Helena: example address format added; new postal code information added.

Samoa: example address formats added

Somalia: example address formats added

South Africa: renamed city names added to town names section.

United Kingdom: correction to table showing which postal code districts are in which nation; refinement of address format section.

Wallis & Futuna: address format section added; postal code section added

 

Bibliography: updated

 


 

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