assigns a code to each country internationally recognised codes stipulated by ISO 3166-1 when referring to countries and subdivisions of countries

NOTE 1 to entry Country codes are not unique to one country and can be repeated in non-neighbouring countries.

NOTE 2 to entry In RDS, The Country Code is transmitted in the first 4-bits of the PI code to signal the origin of the audio programme, which may be different to the country where the transmitter is located.

NOTE 3 to entry Defined in the RDS specification IEC 62106.