User:Denelson83/Byte country code

I have devised a "byte country code", called such because it gives each country in the world a number between 0 and 255 inclusive, essentially allowing every country to be represented by just one byte of data. I conceived this as part of an idea of integrating "location identifiers" into IPv6 addresses. Location identifiers would be two bytes in length, where the first byte draws from the code below, and the second byte represents a first-level administrative division in the country corresponding to the first byte. I have put this code here to make flag tracking easier for myself, as I have recently acquired a brief, but deep interest in flags.

All countries that have officially-assigned and exceptionally-reserved codes (by the ITU and UPU only) in ISO 3166-1, as well as a few other remote autonomous locations, are used in this code. Codes are assigned in a geographical order. Countries in a certain region of the world are grouped into consecutive code ranges. The five major continental areas each have their own code range, and there is also a "wildcard" code range, used to represent regions, and for cases when all countries in a major continental area cannot fit into their corresponding code range.

A few of the numbers in the code below link to their countries' administrative division code lists (the second byte of the two-byte location code).

Legend:  Wildcard   Africa   Europe   Asia   Pacific   Americas 

000 AAA	001 ATA	002	003 UMI	004 FRO	005 SJM	006 HMD	007 NFK
008 FLK	009 SGS	010 BLM	011 MAF	012 SXM	013 BES	014 VGB	015 BMU
016 ASC	017 SHN	018 TAA	019 BVT	020 MUS	021 REU	022 SYC	023 COM
024 MYT	025 MDG	026 ZAF	027 LSO	028 SWZ	029 MOZ	030 MWI	031 ZMB
032 ZWE	033 BWA	034 NAM	035 AGO	036 COG	037 GAB	038 GNQ	039 STP
040 CMR	041 CAF	042 COD	043 RWA	044 BDI	045 TZA	046 UGA	047 KEN
048 SOM	049 DJI	050 ERI	051 ETH	052 SSD	053 SDN	054 EGY	055 LBY
056 TUN	057 DZA	058 NER	059 TCD	060 NGA	061 BEN	062 TGO	063 GHA
064 BFA	065 MLI	066 CIV	067 LBR	068 SLE	069 GIN	070 GNB	071 SEN
072 GMB	073 CPV	074 MRT	075 ESH	076 MAR	077 ICE	078 MAD	079 AZO
080 GIB	081 PRT	082 ESP	083 AND	084 FRA	085 MCO	086 MLT	087 ITA
088 SMR	089 VAT	090 CHE	091 LIE	092 AUT	093 DEU	094 LUX	095 BEL
096 NLD	097 JEY	098 GGY	099 GBR	100 IMN	101 IRL	102 ISL	103 NOR
104 DNK	105 SWE	106 ALA	107 FIN	108 EST	109 LVA	110 LTU	111 POL
112 CZE	113 SVK	114 HUN	115 SVN	116 HRV	117 BIH	118 MNE	119 SRB
120 MKD	121 ALB	122 GRC	123 BGR	124 ROU	125 MDA	126 UKR	127 BLR
128 RUS	129 GEO	130 AZE	131 ARM	132 TUR	133 CYP	134 SYR	135 LBN
136 ISR	137 PSE	138 JOR	139 SAU	140 YEM	141 OMN	142 ARE	143 QAT
144 BHR	145 KWT	146 IRQ	147 IRN	148 TKM	149 UZB	150 KAZ	151 KGZ
152 TJK	153 AFG	154 PAK	155 IND	156 NPL	157 BTN	158 LKA	159 MDV
160 IOT	161 ATF	162 CXR	163 CCK	164 BGD	165 MMR	166 LAO	167 VNM
168 KHM	169 THA	170 MYS	171 SGP	172 BRN	173 IDN	174 TLS	175 PHL
176 TWN	177 MAC	178 HKG	179 CHN	180 MNG	181 PRK	182 KOR	183 JPN
184 PLW	185 MNP	186 MHL	187 GUM	188 FSM	189 PNG	190 AUS	191 NZL
192 NCL	193 VUT	194 SLB	195 NRU	196 KIR	197 TUV	198 WLF	199 FJI
200 TON	201 NIU	202 ASM	203 WSM	204 TKL	205 COK	206 PYF	207 PCN
208 CHL	209 ARG	210 URY	211 BRA	212 PRY	213 BOL	214 PER	215 ECU
216 COL	217 VEN	218 GUY	219 SUR	220 GUF	221 TTO	222 CUW	223 ABW
224 GRD	225 VCT	226 BRB	227 LCA	228 MTQ	229 DMA	230 GLP	231 MSR
232 ATG	233 KNA	234 AIA	235 VIR	236 PRI	237 DOM	238 TCA	239 HTI
240 BHS	241 CUB	242 JAM	243 CYM	244 PAN	245 CRI	246 NIC	247 HND
248 SLV	249 GTM	250 BLZ	251 MEX	252 USA	253 CAN	254 SPM	255 GRL