Kim Phelan wrote: >You have stumbled on a "strange but true" thing with ISO codes. >The code is GB but the description is United Kingdom. > >http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html
GB & the UK are actually different. GB is Great Britain, which comprises mainly of England, Wales & Scotland; it includes the adjacent islands but not the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. The UK is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Oh, we're "slightly smaller than Oregon"; http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html Kind regards, Liam Delahunty Mega Products Limited, 10-11 Moor Street, Soho, London W1D 5NF http://www.onlinesales.co.uk/ Open Source PHP/MySQL E-commerce http://www.liamdelahunty.com/ web/ design/ database/ programming http://www.britstream.com/ Hosting/ Domain Names From UKP 7.50 p.a.
