NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 3) which is identical with ISO 3166-3 : 2013 ‘Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Documentation and Information Sectional Committee and approval of the Management and Systems Division Council.

This standard is published in three parts. Other parts in this series are:

Part 1 Country codes

Part 2 Country subdivision code

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

"Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’."