Countries and Territories: UN Protocol and ISO 3166 Mappings
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Description
OCHA Digital Services provides this cross-referenced registry of global country and territory names, updated as of March 2026. It aggregates official nomenclature from the UN Protocol and Liaison Office, UN m49, and ReliefWeb, mapping them to standard identifiers like ISO 3166 and UNTERM.
Use Cases
Standardizing country names across humanitarian datasets using ISO 3166 and UN m49 mappings
Joining disparate data sources using UNTERM and FTS API identifiers
Validating geographic entities against the UN Protocol and Liaison Office list
Strengths
Aggregates names from 3+ official UN sources including DGACM and ReliefWeb
Includes mappings to ISO 3166 and UN m49 standards
Provides cross-references for humanitarianresponse.info and FTS APIs
Limitations
Specific column headers and schema details are not explicitly listed in the metadata
License is 'hdx-other', which may require specific attribution or usage terms
Provenance
Source
UN Protocol and Liaison Office (DGACM), UN m49, and ReliefWeb
Collection Method
Aggregated from official UN and humanitarian APIs and standards
Freshness
Last updated March 2026; reflects current UN protocol and liaison office standards.
Geography
Global
The dataset is available in both CSV and Google Sheets formats; users should verify the specific terms of the 'hdx-other' license before commercial use.