Continent code (two letters)
ID continentcode
Pattern of continentNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Two-letter continent code used by GeoNames and other geographic datasets: AF (Africa), AN (Antarctica), AS (Asia), EU (Europe), NA (North America), OC (Oceania) and SA (South America). Many CSV readers turn NA into a missing value unless told otherwise.
- Pattern of
- Continent name or identifier
continent - Categories
- Geographic identifiers
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- FTA
CONTINENT.CODE_EN- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- FTA (Fast Text Analysis)
Regular expression
^(?:AF|AN|AS|EU|NA|OC|SA)$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| EU | Europe |
| AF | Africa |
| OC | Oceania |
| AM invalid | not a continent code |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Код континента |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/continentcode - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/geo/continentcode.yamlon GitHub