UN LOCODE

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UN/LOCODE is a 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, Airports, Rail and Road terminals, Post 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 alpha-2 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

External links

• http://www.unece.org/locode (see the download section, warning: large files)

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