ISO 3166-3
Edition/Newsletter Date issued Former country name added Notes
ISO 3166-3:1999 1999-03-11 First edition of ISO 3166-3
Newsletter I-1 2002-11-15 East Timor In accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-5 and Newsletter V-6
Newsletter I-2 2002-11-22 France , Metropolitan Correction . Entry inadvertently omitted from ISO 3166-3 when first published in 1999
Newsletter I-3 2003-07-23 Yugoslavia In accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-8
Newsletter I-4 2006-09-26 Serbia and Montenegro In accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-12
Newsletter I-5 2006-12-01 None Rectify Newsletter I-4 by assigning the code CSXX to represent Serbia and Montenegro
Newsletter I-6 2011-03-14 ( corrected 2013-02-06 ) Netherlands Antilles In accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-8
ISO 3166-3:2013 2013-11-19 Second edition of ISO 3166-3 ( changes are published in the online catalogue of ISO only and no newsletters are published anymore )
Changes
The ISO 3166/MA updates ISO 3166-3 when necessary . The updating of ISO 3166-3 is totally dependent on the updating of ISO 3166-1 . ISO used to announce changes in newsletters which updated the currently valid standard , and releasing new editions which comprise a consolidation of newsletter changes . As of July 2013 , changes are published in the online catalogue of ISO only and no newsletters are published anymore . Past newsletters remain available on the ISO website .
ISO 3166-3 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for country names which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 since its first publication in 1974. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries. It was first published in 1999. Each former country name in ISO 3166-3 is assigned a four-letter alphabetic code. The first two letters are the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the former country, while the last two letters are allocated according to the following rules: