Many DBpedia countries don't have basic stuff like country codes.
DBpediaWorldFacts adds language and country codes:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbpedia/WorldFacts/master/DBpediaWorldFactsOntology.png

We are planning to add ISO3166-2 Subdivision codes. These are top-level country 
regions, e.g. Spain has 67.
- OMG provides these for US, CA, MX in a rather roundabout ontology (see at 
bottom):
   http://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/Countries/ISO3166-2-SubdivisionCodes.rdf
- UN/LOCODE provides tables for all countries: 
http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/subdivisions.html
- Wikipedia also provides tables, e.g. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:ES
  This may be best since it includes the subdivision URL. We'll do it for at 
least for 49 countries (but if possible, for all)

Should we just hack some scripts to parse those Wikipedia pages?
Or does someone have better suggestions, e.g. by using the Extraction Framework 
and writing a specific table parser?

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OMG LCC data:

lcc-3166-2:US-AK a lcc-cr:SubdivisionCode;
   lcc-cr:hasSubdivisionTag "US-AK";
   lcc-lr:identifies lcc-3166-2:Alaska;
   lcc-lr:isMemberOf lcc-3166-2:ISO3166-2-CodeSet.
lcc-3166-2:Alaska a lcc-cr:CountrySubdivision;
  rdfs:label                  "Alaska" ;
  lcc-cr:hasEnglishShortName  "Alaska" ;
  lcc-cr:hasLocalShortName    "Alaska" ;
  lcc-cr:isClassifiedBy       lcc-3166-2:State ;
  lcc-cr:isSubdivisionOf      lcc-3166-1:UnitedStates;


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