let's discuss something autisic and international: country codesIs there any particular reason why certain entities with broad autonomous rights don't get any codes (Like Scotland that prints its own money and that has had international sports teams for decades) while island jokes with no sovereignty do get one?
This topic is boring
>>226014162Good topic but faggots on this board stopped talking about /int/ernational topics a long time ago. It's just who can bait whom the best now.
>>226014162Everybody should get their own code. No more countries or regions!
>>226014162Idk.
>>226014162My guess would be because islanders are "disconnected" from the mainland.
>>226015049it's worth a try making a thread, is it not?>>226015384It just looks silly to me when uninhabitable islands of the Unites States do have a code (UM), while Kosovo with over a million of residents is stuck using an "user-assigned" XK
>>226014162>while island jokes with no sovereignty do get one?
>>226017577>tfI kek'd
>>226014162why is belarus BY btw? it's like they mixed latin and cyrillic
>>226018064because it's "Byelorussia" in Russian, apparently
>>226014162If it's similar to internet domains, then theyre ultimately derived from 19th century postal codes, where small and remote territories often had special codes to more efficiently distribute mail (e.g. to send a letter from Spain to Gibraltar, you put in a special code so it doesn't get sent to Britain first)
>>226018236you should change your flag
>>226018236that's weird
>>226018634>If it's similar to internet domainsanon, ccTLDs are derived from country codes>then theyre ultimately derived from 19th century postal codeshuh, makes sense when you actually consider "distant" territoriesNow I wonder how Russian Post handles Kaliningrad kek>>226018700To what, exactly?>>226018706desu BE, RB and RB are already taken, might as well go for something unique
>>226018809>RB and RBRB and BR
>>226018809you have letter J in latin alphabet though. i know most people don't speak belarusian, but still
>>226019039>blowjob country codeno thanks
>>226018236In French too it's Biélorussie, code from the French
>>226019112BI is taken by fucking Burundi
>>226019078we've got BJ license plates for town called Bjelovar
