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    Countries and regions

    Fields representing individual countries or nations must use the Unicode CLDR region codes (list), such as US or CH, and the field must be called region_code.

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    Important: We use region_code and not country_code to include regions -distinct from any country, and avoid political disputes over whether or not -some regions are countries.

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    Important: Please read the rationale for this +requirement.

    Currency

    Fields representing currency must use ISO-4217 currency codes, such as USD or CHF, and the field must be called currency_code.

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    Time zones

    Fields also may represent a UTC offset rather than a time zone (note that these are subtly different). In this case, the field must use the ISO-8601 format to represent this, and the field must be named utc_offset.

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    Rationale

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    Country/region field naming

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    The use of region_code instead of country_code is critical to being able to +convey regions that are distinct from any country and to avoid any political +disputes associated with said region regarding their soverignty or affiliation. +Google and many other companies are supporters of Unicode CLDR and standardize +their product internationalization efforts on Unicode CLDR, and APIs are no +different here. Furthermore, many of the values supported by Unicode CLDR are +not countries on their own, so using a more generic name is actually more +compatible with the specification.

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