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ISO 3166-1 Alpha3 country code

ID countrycode_alpha3

Pattern of countryNot PIIcategorical

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.

Pattern of
Country code or name country
Categories
Geographic identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
FTA
COUNTRY.ISO-3166-3
Wikidata
P298
Quality
80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation
Metacrafter rules
2 rules (0 by field name, 2 by value)
Supported by tools
csv-detective, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), metacrafter, metacrafterpro, Tableau, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)

Regular expression

[A-Z]{3}

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

ValueDescription
RUSRussia
DEUGermany

Sources

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