UN/LOCODE
The "United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations" is commonly more known as "UN/LOCODE". Although managed and maintained by the UNECE, it is the product of a wide collaboration in the framework of the joint trade facilitation effort undertaken within the United Nations.
Initiated within the UNECE Working Party on Trade Facilitation, UN/LOCODE is based on a code structure set up by ECLAC and a list of locations originating in ESCAP, developed in UNCTAD in co-operation with transport organisations like IATA and the ICS and with active contributions from national governments and commercial bodies. Its first issue in 1981 provided codes to represent the names of some 8000 locations in the world.
UN/LOCODE 2007 includes over 58800 locations in 242 countries and installations in international waters. It is used by most major shipping companies, by freight forwarders and in the manufacturing industry around the world. It is also applied by national governments and in trade related activities, such as statistics where it is used by the European Union, by the UPU for certain postal services, etc (read more....)
| Location Code list: Display UN/LOCODE by Country New version 2007 [more...] |
| Country Codes: 2-letter codes for countries
according to ISO 3166-1 [more...] |
| Subdivision Codes: 1-3 characters codes for
selected countries according to ISO 3166-2 [more...] |
| UN/LOCODE Manual: Text describing the features of
UN/LOCODE, code classifiers used, request and change procedures, etc. [more...] |
| Secretariat Note: Note by the secretariat
introducing the latest version of UN/LOCODE [more...] |
| LOCODE Request Form: Online UN/LOCODE Entry Request System [http://apps.unece.org/unlocode] |
Download: Download the complete (with codes list,
support codes, UN/LOCODE manual, but without secretariat note)
(MS Access database, CSV (comma delimited) and TXT formats) [more...] |
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