UN LOCODE
geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by UNECE a unit of the United Nations.
UN/LOCODE assigns more than 42000 code elements to locations such as seaports, airportss, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.
UN/LOCODEs typically have five characters. The first two are letters, and come from the ISO 3166-1 country codes. Normally three letters will follow, but if there are not enough combinations, numbers can also be used.
Example
- DEBER for Berlin in Germany (DE)
- NLAMS for Amsterdam in NL
- USNYC for New York City in US
History
- Issue 2003-1 around 36000
- Issue 2003-2 > 36000
- Issue 2004-1 > 40000
- Issue 2004-2 > 42000
