荷属安的列斯群岛按10-10-10分解,如何改变国家下拉？

Question

另见荷属安的列斯群岛的解散.

简而言之:库拉索岛和圣马丁岛变得自治,岛屿的残余(BES岛屿)成为荷兰的特殊城市.

问题是:我们应该如何在国家平均网络应用程序下拉中取代荷属安的列斯群岛(国家代码ISO-3166-2:AN)？我找不到有关新国家/地区代码的任何信息.我们是否必须将Curaçao和Sint Maarten添加到国家/地区代码AN的下拉菜单中？BES岛怎么样？

Answer 1

上周他们终于分配了新的ISO 3166代码.

来自ISO 3166-2:AN页面:

荷属安的列斯群岛在2010年被解散为五个不同的地区之前,正式被分配了ISO 3166-1 alpha-2代码AN,因此该条目将从ISO 3166-2中删除.Curaçao和Sint Maarten成为荷兰王国的海外国家,现在分别正式分配了ISO 3166-1 alpha-2代码CW和SX.Bonaire,Sint Eustatius和Saba成为荷兰的"特殊城市",现在正在"Bonaire,Saint Eustatius和Saba"的集体条目下正式获得ISO 3166-1 alpha-2代码BQ.

在ISO 3166-1解码表最后更新于2010年12月15日.

在现有的网络应用程序中,我认为将AN保留至少一年仅用于显示是有意义的.然而,我会在某个用户个人资料页面中显示一些消息框和/或向AN用户发送一封电子邮件,用户现在有机会确定国家/地区选择以匹配实际的新国家/地区.

Answer 2

The relevant ISO codes have now been assigned. The following answer does still stand in terms of handling jurisdictional changes (including the fact that some data should still be recorded as being related to AN, because it relates to something that happened in AN when AN existed).

Neither, as yet, have ISO codes assigned.

For some uses, considering it part of the Netherlands (NL) will serve, as they are constituent countries. Note that "constituent country" isn't a rock-solid distinction as such matters go, and it's quite common to e.g. consider the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a single unit in a context where one might also consider Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands as three separate units.

For others, encoding as "Former Netherlands Antilles" will serve.

For other uses, this would not be acceptable. My recommendation would be to use codes from the user-assigned area of ISO 3166 (AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ, though you may wish to avoid those in common usage in public contexts), and reassign to the code assigned later, if that happens.

Note also, that it may be worth keeping Netherlands Antilles as an option in some cases, as Netherlands Antilles is obviously the place where some things happened in the past which may remain worth noting for some time to come (one reason why many complained that CS was re-assigned from Czechoslovakia to Serbia and Montenegro too soon, is that valid and useful data about Czechoslovakia was still in active use at the time).