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Pet hate: Regularly running into dropdowns that list countries by name, but sort them by country code.

Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!

At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.

IVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters.

Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely.

That’s interesting. It kind of makes sense. I guess the US makes this rule kind of funny too. I guess we’re lucky we didn’t get .am for “America.”

Makes sense, also in keeping with the excessively complicated naming that thousands of years of dispute produces.