{"id":672,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/iso-3166\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:48","slug":"iso-3166","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/glossary\/iso-3166\/","title":{"rendered":"ISO 3166"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**ISO 3166** is the international standard that assigns two-letter, three-letter and numeric codes to the countries, territories and subdivisions of the world. The two-letter alpha-2 codes (such as FR for France, JP for Japan) are widely used as identifiers for national flags in databases, URLs and filenames. ISO 3166-2 codes extend the system to subdivisions such as states, provinces and overseas territories.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The flag of Japan is commonly indexed under the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code JP, and its image filenames often follow the form jp.svg or jp.png.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [fiav](\/glossary\/fiav\/), [vexillology](\/glossary\/vexillology\/), [hex](\/glossary\/hex\/), [construction-sheet](\/glossary\/construction-sheet\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-672","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}