EURING Code Manual - The European Union for Bird Ringing

Place Codealphanumeric, four charactersThe full list of codes can be downloaded or accessed interactively at:www.euring.org/data_and_codes/euring_code_list/index.htmThe purpose of the Place Code is solely to identify particular geographical areas in terms of currentadministrative regions. No political statements are implied by any of these codes.The first pair of characters identifies the country and are always alphabetic.The second pair of characters identifies the sub-division of the country.These are either alphabetic or numeric.The use of '00' as the last two characters can mean either a specific sub-division of a country (e.g.ES00 is Álava, Spain) or that codes have not been allocated to subdivisions of that country (e.g. YS00,Somalia).When the area within a country with subdivisions is not known, e.g. bird reported in 'TheNetherlands', then the third and fourth characters should be coded as '--'. Do not use '00' as thiscould mean a specific part of the country concerned.When possible all spellings of the names of countries and provinces refer to The TimesComprehensive Atlas of the World. Tenth edition 1999, reprint with changes 2000. Times Books, 77-85 Fulham Place Road, London W6 8JB, ISBN 0-7230-0792-6, in this publication always referred asthe Times Atlas. All boundaries are also taken from this atlas, unless otherwise noted.Old Place CodesOld, numeric place codes can be found in the ‘EURING Code Manual’ (1966) and in the ‘CodeManual New EURING’ (1979). Both are available on the EURING website ( www.euring.org ).Internet gazetteers.There are internet sites where you can search for geographical names and their co-ordinates. A few ofthose sites are given here, but please remember that websites, like birds, come and go unpredictably.http://earth.google.comhttp://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/http://nationalmap.gov/http://www.maporama.com/share/http://www.multimap.com/http://calle.com/http://maps.google.comhttp://www.postleitzahl.org/http://www.find.dk/http://www.kortal.dk/Updating the Place CodeWhenever you cannot find a country code in this list please contact edb@bto.orgWhen codes are updated for the field Place Code, as far as possible we follow the next links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 ISO 3166-1 country code and for subdivisions of countriesuse the links from these Wikipedia pages.https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/EURING exchange-code 2000 Enhanced 21 - 42