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Global Sourcebook for International Data Management

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Updates 2010

Global Sourcebook | Index | Properties

28 December 2010 14:02:08

 

ISO 3166 country codes: new codes added form Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten

 

Bonaire: ISO 3166 codes added

Curaçao: ISO 3166 codes added

Saba: ISO 3166 codes added

Sint Eustatius: ISO 3166 codes added

Sint Maarten: ISO 3166 codes added

 

24 December 2010 09:47:57

 

New chapter added: World currencies and codes

Egypt: address format examples added. 

 

21 December 2010 09:19:59

 

Italy:company legal form added

Spain:company legal form added

Turkmenistan: currency code updated.

Venezuela: currency code updated.

Zimbabwe: currency code updated.

 

20 December 2010 10:29:38

 

Samoa: currency code updated

 

19 December 2010 09:48:03

 

Mozambique: currency code updated

 

17 December 2010 10:22:35

 

Iraq: currency code updated

 

16 December 2010 10:17:26

 

East Timor: currency code updated

Ghana: currency code updated

 

15 December 2010 10:09:33

 

Afghanistan: currency code updated

Bulgaria: currency code updated

 

12 December 2010 13:16:36

 

Country names: additions made for Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Maltese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai. New chapters added for Bengali, Azerbaijani, Basque, Macedonian, Armenian and Georgian.

 

07 December 2010 10:58:06

 

Honduras: telephone number section updated

 

23 November 2010 11:43:04

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with T-Z.

Vanuatu: telephone numbers section updated

 

19 November 2010 11:57:57

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with S.

 

18 November 2010 11:07:26

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with P, Q and R.

 

17 November 2010 10:07:29

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with N and O.

 

16 November 2010 11:12:23

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with M.

 

15 November 2010 08:51:43

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with J, K and L.

 

14 November 2010 09:27:59

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with H and I.

 

13-Nov-2010 08:18

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with G

 

12-Nov-2010 13:57

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with F

 

11 November 2010 14:08:38

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with D and E.

 

10-Nov-2010 10:56

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with C

 

08 November 2010 09:15:42

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with B

 

07 November 2010 09:59:07

 

GRC Country Codes added for countries with names beginning with A

 

28 October 2010 10:14:37

 

Bahrain: telephone number section updated. 

Ireland: telephone number section updated. 

 

12 October 2010 09:54:01

 

Congo (Brazzaville): telephone number section updated. 

Lebanon: telephone number section updated. 

 

10 October 2010 13:23:21

 

Bonaire: current affairs situation updated; currency information updated.

Curaçao: current affairs situation updated; currency information updated.

Netherlands Antilles: current affairs situation updated

Saba current affairs situation updated; currency information updated.

Sint Eustatius: current affairs situation updated; currency information updated.

Sint Maarten: current affairs situation updated; population figure updated; currency information updated.

 

04 October 2010 11:07:26

 

Zimbabwe: telephone numbers section updated.

 

28 September 2010 09:37:47

 

United Kingdom: company legal forms added.

United States of America: company legal form added.

Uzbekistani: company types section added.

Vietnam: company types section added.

 

27 September 2010 08:45:13

 

Switzerland: company legal form added. 

Thailand: company legal forms added.

Turkey: company legal form added. 

Ukraine: company legal forms added.

 

26 September 2010 09:04:13

 

South Africa: company legal forms added. 

Spain: company legal forms added. 

Sweden: company legal forms added. 

 

25 September 2010 09:08:20

 

Russia: company legal forms added. 

Serbia: company legal forms added. 

Slovenia: company legal forms added. 

 

24 September 2010 10:22:06

 

Pakistan: company types section added.

Poland: company legal forms added. 

Portugal: company legal forms added. 

 

23 September 2010 12:22:15

 

Namibia: company types section added.

Nigeria: company types section added.

Norway: company legal forms added. 

 

22 September 2010 10:07:23

 

Lithuania: company types section added.

Macedonia: company legal forms added. 

Mexico: company legal forms added. 

Turkey: postal codes map added. 

 

21 September 2010 09:23:35

 

Kazakhstan: company types section added.

South Korea: company types section added

Laos: postal codes per province table added. 

Latvia: company types section added.

Solomon Islands: telephone numbers information updated. 

Vietnam: postal codes map added; administrative districts section updated; postal codes per province table added. 

 

20 September 2010 08:47:05

 

Israel: company types section added.

Italy: company legal forms added. 

Japan: company legal forms added. 

Laos: postal code map added. 

 

19 September 2010 09:54:37

 

India: company legal forms added. 

Indonesia: company legal forms added. 

Iran: company legal forms added. 

 

18 September 2010 10:14:08

 

Greece: company legal forms added. 

Hong Kong: company legal forms added. 

Iceland: company legal forms added. 

Philippines: postal codes map added. 

 

17 September 2010 11:20:55

 

Finland: company legal forms added. 

France: company legal forms added. 

Germany: company legal forms added. 

 

16 September 2010 11:14:56

 

Dominican Republic: company types section added.

Egypt: company types section added.

Estonia: company legal forms added and modified

Philippines: administrative regions section modified; postal codes per province information added. 

 

15 September 2010 12:29:50

 

Chile: company legal forms added

Colombia: company legal forms added

Denmark: company legal form modified

 

14 September 2010 08:38:46

 

Bulgaria: company legal forms added

Canada: company legal forms added

Guinea: telephone numbers information updated. 

 

13 September 2010 09:04:39

 

Belgium: company legal forms added

Bosnia-Hercegovina: company legal form added

Brazil: company legal forms added

 

12 September 2010 10:11:34

 

Australia: company legal forms added

Austria: company legal forms added

Belarus: company legal forms section added

 

11 September 2010 13:06:29

 

Argentina: company legal forms added

 

10 September 2010 11:40:21

 

Hungary: company legal forms added

 

08 September 2010 10:03:14

 

Austria: photograph added

Bosnia Hercegovina: 2 photographs added

Peru: company legal forms added

 

31 August 2010 10:50:10

 

Bahamas: administrative districts section updated

North Korea: administrative districts section updated

South Korea: administrative districts section updated

 

29 August 2010 12:41:46

 

United States of America: additional address information provided

 

23 August 2010 10:18:08

 

Equatorial Guinea: additional address format information provided.

Guinea: additional address format information provided.

Niger: additional address format information provided.

 

22 August 2010 10:17:07

 

Burkina Faso: additional address format information provided.

Ivory Coast: additional address format information provided.

Togo: additional address format information provided.

 

21 August 2010 09:08:12

 

Djibouti: additional address format information provided.

Gabon: additional address format information provided

Mauritania: additional address format information provided

Rwanda: additional address format information provided

 

20 August 2010 08:54:33

 

Cameroon: additional address format information provided

Central African Republic: additional address format information provided

Chad: additional address format information provided

Comoros: additional address format information provided

Mauritius: telephone information updated.

Pakistan: current affairs information added. 

Uruguay: telephone information updated.

 

19 August 2010 11:33:13

 

Benin: additional address format information provided

Burundi: additional address format information provided

Benin: additional address format information provided

Ethiopia: additional address format information provided

Japan: additional address format information provided

 

18 August 2010 10:47:27

 

Anguilla: additional address format information provided

Lesotho: additional address format information provided

Malawi: additional address format information provided

Tonga: additional address format information provided.

 

17 August 2010 09:38:33

 

Honduras: additional postal code information added. 

Niue: additional address format information provided.

Solomon Islands: additional address format information provided.

Swaziland: additional address format information provided.

 

16 August 2010 10:32:21

 

Antigua & Barbuda: additional address format information provided.

Oman: additional address format information provided.

 

15 August 2010 08:33:22

 

Kenya: additional address format information provided.

Slovakia: diacritical mark and other corrections in all sections; place names incorrectly marked as being er corrections in all sections; place names incorrectly marked as being in Slovakia moved to this chapter.

Uganda: additional address format information provided.

 

13 August 2010 11:30:35

 

Tanzania: additional address format information provided.

 

12 August 2010 14:10:22

 

Namibia: additional address format information provided.

 

11 August 2010 11:46:44

 

Ghana: additional address format information provided.

 

10 August 2010 11:24:15

 

Botswana: additional address format information provided.

 

27 July 2010 10:30:26

 

French Polynesia: telephone numbers section updated.

Swaziland: telephone numbers section updated.

 

25 July 2010 09:33:19

 

Vanuatu: telephone numbers section updated.

Venezuela: telephone numbers section updated.

Vietnam: telephone numbers section added.

Yemen: telephone numbers section added.

Zambia: telephone numbers section added.

Zimbabwe: telephone numbers section added.

 

24 July 2010 09:35:26

 

Ukraine: telephone numbers section updated.

United Arab Emirates: telephone numbers section added.

United Kingdom: telephone numbers section updated.

United States of America: telephone numbers section updated.

Uruguay: telephone numbers section added.

Uzbekistan: telephone numbers section updated.

 

23 July 2010 11:43:31

 

Tunisia: telephone numbers section updated.

Turkey: telephone numbers section updated.

Turks & Caicos Islands: telephone numbers section updated.

Tuvalu: telephone numbers section updated.

Uganda: telephone numbers section added.

 

22 July 2010 10:40:39

 

East Timor: telephone numbers section updated.

Macedonia: telephone numbers section added.

Tanzania: telephone numbers section updated.

Thailand: telephone numbers section updated.

Togo: telephone numbers section updated.

Tonga: telephone numbers section updated.

Trinidad & Tobago: telephone numbers section updated.

 

21 July 2010 10:17:19

 

Sweden: telephone numbers section added.

Switzerland: telephone numbers section added.

Syria: telephone numbers section updated.

Taiwan: telephone numbers section added.

Tajikistan: tica: telephone numbers section added.

Spain: telephone numbers section updated.

Sri Lanka: telephone numbers section added.

Sudan: telephone numbers section updated.

Suriname: telephone numbers section updated.

 

19 July 2010 09:33:40

 

Seychelles: telephone numbers section updated.

Sierra Leone: telephone numbers section updated.

Singapore: telephone numbers section updated.

Slovakia: telephone numbers section added.

Slovenia: telephone numbers section updated.

Solomon Islands: telephone numbers section updated.

Somalia: telephone numbers section added.

 

18 July 2010 09:17:09

 

Portugal: telephone numbers section added.

Puerto Rico: telephone numbers section updated.

Qatar: telephone numbers section updated.

Romania: telephone numbers section added.

Russia: telephone numbers section updated.

Rwanda: telephone numbers section updated.

St Kitts & Nevis: telephone numbers section updated.

St Lucia: telephone numbers section updated.

St Pierre & Miquelon: telephone numbers section updated.

St Vincent & The Grenadines: telephone numbers section updated.

Samoa: telephone numbers section updated.

San Marino: telephone numbers section updated.

Saudi Arabia: telephone numbers section updated.

Senegal: telephone numbers section updated.

Serbia: telephone numbers section added.

 

17 July 2010 09:38:24

 

Paraguay: telephone numbers section added.

Peru: telephone numbers section updated.

Philippines: telephone numbers section added.

Poland: telephone numbers section updated.

 

16 July 2010 09:53:37

 

Oman: telephone numbers section updated.

Pakistan: telephone numbers section updated.

Palau: telephone numbers section updated.

Panama: telephone numbers section updated.

Papua New Guinea: telephone numbers section updated.

 

15 July 2010 13:19:30

 

Bahamas: administrative districts section updated.

Nicaragua: telephone numbers section updated.

Niger: telephone numbers section updated.

Nigeria: telephone numbers section added.

Norfolk Island: telephone numbers section updated.

Norway: telephone numbers section updated.

Panama: administrative districts section updated.

Peru: administrative districts section updated.

 

14 July 2010 11:08:46

 

Australia: Company legal type added

Namibia: telephone numbers section added.

Nauru: telephone numbers section updated.

Nepal: telephone numbers section added.

Netherlands: telephone numbers section updated.

Netherlands Antilles: telephone numbers section updated.

New Caledonia: telephone numbers section updated.

New Zealand: telephone numbers section updated.

 

13 July 2010 12:34:23

 

Montenegro: telephone numbers section added.

Montserrat: telephone numbers section updated.

Morocco: telephone numbers section updated.

Mozambique: telephone numbers section added.

Myanmar: telephone numbers section added.

 

12 July 2010 10:24:34

 

Mauritania: telephone numbers section updated.

Mauritius: telephone numbers section updated.

Mexico: telephone numbers section added.

Micronesia: telephone numbers section updated.

Moldova: telephone numbers section updated.

Monaco: telephone numbers section updated.

Mongolia: telephone numbers section added.

 

07 July 2010 10:25:56

 

Madagascar: telephone numbers section updated.

Malawi: telephone numbers section updated.

Malaysia: telephone numbers section added.

Maldives: telephone numbers section updated.

Mali: telephone numbers section updated.

Malta: telephone numbers section updated.

Martinique: telephone numbers section updated.

 

06 July 2010 10:22:06

 

Liberia: telephone numbers section updated.

Libya: telephone numbers section added.

Liechtenstein: telephone numbers section updated.

Lithuania: telephone numbers section added.

Luxembourg: telephone numbers section updated.

Macao: telephone numbers section added.

 

05 July 2010 09:26:37

 

Kenya: telephone numbers section added.

Kiribati: telephone numbers section updated.

Kuwait: telephone numbers section updated.

Kyrgyzstan: telephone numbers section updated.

Laos: telephone numbers section added.

Latvia: telephone numbers section added.

Lebanon: telephone numbers section added.

Lesotho: telephone numbers section added.

South Korea: telephone numbers section added.

 

04 July 2010 09:13:14

 

Israel: telephone numbers section updated.

Italy: telephone numbers section updated.

Jamaica: telephone numbers section updated.

Japan: telephone numbers section added.

Jordan: telephone numbers section updated.

Kazakhstan: telephone numbers section updated.

 

03 July 2010 11:53:27

 

Hungary: telephone numbers section updated.

Iceland: telephone numbers section updated.

India: telephone numbers section added.

Indonesia: telephone numbers section added.

Ireland: telephone numbers section added.

 

02 July 2010 10ala: telephone numbers section updated.

Guinea: telephone numbers section updated.

Guinea-Bissau: telephone numbers section updated.

Guyana: telephone numbers section updated.

Haiti: telephone numbers section updated.

Honduras: telephone numbers section updated.

Hong Kong: telephone numbers section updated.

 

01 July 2010 15:08:18

 

Gibraltar: telephone numbers section updated.

Greece: telephone numbers section updated.

Greenland: telephone numbers section updated.

Grenada: telephone numbers section updated.

Guadeloupe: telephone numbers section updated.

 

30 June 2010 09:44:56

 

Gabon: telephone numbers section updated.

Gambia: telephone numbers section updated.

Georgia: telephone numbers section updated.

Germany: telephone numbers section added. 

Ghana: telephone numbers section added. 

 

29 June 2010 09:19:24

 

Faeroe Islands: telephone numbers section updated.

Falkland Islands: telephone numbers section updated.

Fiji: telephone numbers section updated.

Finland: telephone numbers section updated.

France: telephone numbers section updated.

French Guiana: telephone numbers section updated.

French Polynesia: telephone numbers section updated.

Kyrgyzstan: current affairs section added. 

Réunion: telephone numbers section updated.

 

28 June 2010 10:55:03

 

Ecuador: telephone numbers section updated.

Egypt: telephone numbers section added. 

El Salvador: telephone numbers section updated.

Equatorial Guinea: telephone numbers section updated.

Eritrea: telephone numbers section updated.

Estonia: telephone numbers section updated.

Ethiopia: telephone numbers section updated.

 

27 June 2010 10:00:36

 

Congo (Kinshasa): telephone numbers section updated.

Denmark: telephone numbers section updated.

Djibouti: telephone numbers section updated.

Dominica: telephone numbers section updated.

Dominican Republic: telephone numbers section updated.

 

26 June 2010 10:47:01

 

Congo (Brazzaville): telephone numbers section updated.

Cook Islands: telephone numbers section updated.

Costa Rica: telephone numbers section updated.

Croatia: telephone numbers section added. 

Cuba: telephone numbers section added. 

Cyprus: telephone numbers section updated.

Czech Republic: telephone numbers section added. 

Ivory Coast: telephone numbers section updated.

 

25 June 2010 12:00:42

 

Chile: telephone numbers section updated.

China: telephone numbers section added. 

Colombia: telephone numbers section added.

Comoros: telephone numbers section updated.

 

24 June 2010 11:55:50

 

Cambodia: telephone numbers section updated.

Cameroon: telephone numbers section updated.

Canada: telephone numbers section updated.

Cape Verde: telephone numbers section updated.

Cayman Islands: telephone numbers section updated.

Central African Republic: telephone numbers section updated.

Chad: telephone numbers section updated.

 

23 June 2010 11:10:34

 

Bhutan: telephone numbers section updated.

Bolivia: telephone numbers section updated.

Bosnia-Hercegovina: telephone numbers section updated.

Botswana: telephone numbers section updated.

Brazil: telephone numbers section updated.

Brunei Darussalam: telephone numbers section updated.

British Virgin Islands: telephone numbers section updated.

Bulgaria: telephone numbers section added.

Burkina Faso: telephone numbers section updated.

Burundi: telephone numbers section updated.

 

22 June 2010 10:13:18

 

Bahamas: telephone numbers section updated

Bahrain: telephone numbers section updated.

Bangladesh: telephone numbers section added.

Barbados: telephone numbers section updated.

Belarus: telephone numbers section added.

Belgium: telephone numbers section added.

Belize: telephone numbers section updated.

Benin: telephone numbers section updated.

Bermuda: telephone numbers section updated.

 

21 June 2010 12:37:53

 

Aruba: telephone numbers section updated

Australia: telephone numbers section updated

Austria: telephone numbers section added.

Azerbaijan: telephone numbers section added.

 

20 June 2010 11:44:25

 

Angola: telephone numbers section added.

Anguilla: telephone numbers section updated

Antigua & Barbuda: telephone numbers section updated.

Argentina: telephone numbers section added.

Armenia: telephone numbers section updated

 

19 June 2010 15:54:39

 

Afghanistan: telephone numbers section updated

Albania: telephone numbers section added. 

Algeria: telephone numbers section updated

American Samoa: telephone numbers section updated

 

08 June 2010 08:19:42

 

Equatorial Guinea: additional telephone number information added. 

Greenland: language information updated. 

Laos: additional telephone number information added. 

 

02 June 2010 14:35:40

 

Qatar: additional address information added

United Arab Emirates: additional address information added; two graphics/photographs added

 

19 May 2010 14:53:3

 

Pakistan: postal code ranges per province added

 

18 May 2010 09:54:44

 

Greenland: administrative districts section updated.

Pakistan: administrative districts section updated.

Philippines: administrative districts section updated. 

Thailand: company types section added.

 

11 May 2010 09:48:52

 

France: telephone number information modified

Georgia: additional telephone number information added.

 

05 May 2010 14:05:01

 

Czech Republic: additional address format information added; three photographs added.

 

19 April 2010 11:38:16

 

Bulgaria: photograph added

 

12 April 2010 13:22:46

 

Italy: new company legal form added

 

23 March 2010 09:32:37

 

Chad: telephone numbers section modified.

 

17 March 2010 11:06:26

 

Ukraine: telephone numbers section added.

 

10 March 2010 10:16:26

 

Address formats for web forms - Mailing address formats - new format added for Kenya

 

Bangladesh: administrative districts section updated.

Latvia: administrative districts section updated.

Uganda: administrative districts section updated.

 

09 March 2010 11:39:52

 

Cayman Islands: administrative districts section modified.  

Faeroe Islands: administrative districts section added. 

Finland: administrative districts sections modified.

St Helena: official country name changed

 

02 March 2010 10:44:43

 

Address formats for web forms: address format for Kenya altered

Kenya: address format information added. 

 

28 February 2010 11:12:32

 

Address formats for web forms: new street address formats for Bhutan added; altered mailing address format for Bhutan added. 

 

25 February 2010 13:42:13

 

Sweden: additional personal name information added. 

 

23 February 2010 10:16:47

 

World address formats: new structure added for Bhutan

World postal code formats: format and regular expression added for Bhutan

Bhutan: new address structure and address components abbreviations added; new postal code system added; postal code ranges per district table added.

Netherlands Antilles: additional current affairs information added. 

 

20 February 2010 11:51:53

 

Poland: additional personal name information added

 

19 February 2010 11:40:03

 

South Korea: additional personal name information added

 

16 February 2010 09:10:19

 

Iceland: additional personal name information added

 

15 February 2010 12:40:56

 

Hungary: additional personal name information added

United States of America: personal names section added

 

10 February 2010 10:22:57

 

World personal name formats: Fiji added.

Fiji: personal names section added

Netherlands: additional personal name information added

 

09 February 2010 11:27:52

 

Czech Republic: additional personal name information added

Ghana: additional personal name information added

Indonesia: additional personal name information added

 

02 February 2010 08:08:15

 

Population figures updated for most countries commencing U, V, W, Y, Z

Sao Tome & Principe: telephone numbers section updated. 

Swaziland: telephone numbers section updated. 

 

25 January 2010 11:38:32

 

Population figures updated for most countries commencing T

 

19 January 2010 09:31:40

 

Population figures updated for most countries commencing S

Haiti: current affairs situation added.

 

12 January 2010 13:35:07

 

Population figures updated for most countries commencing P, Q, R

 

05 January 2010 09:29:31

 

Population figures updated for most countries commencing N, O

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