• nixcamic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.

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      3 days ago

      Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.

      ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.