Data Glossary: Abbreviations, Organizations & Terms

The continuously updated table below lists and describes abbreviations, organizations, and terms relevant to the use of data displayed and used on flaggeo.com.

TermDescription
CIACentral Intelligence Agency; secret service and creator of “The World Factbook”, the main source of data used by this website [7]
ccTLDcountry code top-level domain: a top-level-domain which is built upon the ISO-3166 standard and represents domains of a country, event though they might also be used in a different context. e.g.: .de (germany), .fr (france) [3]
gTLDgeneric top-level domain: is a transnational top-level domain. The most wide-spread gTLD is .com (commercial) [3]
ISOInternational Organization for Standardization. ISO is an independent, non-governmental international organization, which defines standards across a vast amount of fields and, which are agreed by an international committee of experts. [1]
ISO-3166The standard ISO-3166 has the purpose to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that can be used when referring to countries and their subdivisions. It is build on codes, and does not define the names of the countries. This is because codes are more reliable than the names, which change depending on the used language. [2] The ccTLDs are also built upon the ISO-3166.
The World FactbookCollection of data of 258 countries and territories providing basic information on their history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues. Maintained by the CIA. The main source of data used by this website. [7]
TLDTop-level domain: A domain, an internet address, consists of multiple parts. The domain-suffix is called top-level domain. e.g.: .com is the TLD of www.google.com [3]
Unicode ConsortiumThe Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation, which develops, maintains and promotes internationalization standards for software and data, particularly the Unicode Standard. [6]
Unicode StandardThe Unicode Standard specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards. [5]

Sources and Additional Resources:

  1. https://www.iso.org/home.html
  2. https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html
  3. https://www.ionos.at/digitalguide/domains/domainendungen/was-ist-eine-generische-top-level-domain-gtld/
  4. https://home.unicode.org/
  5. https://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html
  6. https://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
  7. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/