"Whirled Peas" > wrote in message
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> On 10/20/2015 01:44 PM, notbob wrote:
>> On 2015-10-20, Whirled Peas > wrote:
>>
>>> Ummm.... "CN" is the international country abbreviation for China. "CA"
>>> is the abbrev. for Canada.
>>
>> Sorry. California already uses CA.
>>
>> nb
>>
>
> Didn't see a smiley, so don't know if you're joking. "CA" is the
> international 2-letter *COUNTRY* postal code for Canada. It's an ISO
> standard used a lot in email, for example. Within the US, the national
> standard specifies "CA" as the 2-letter postal abbreviation for a *STATE*.
> AFAICT, there is no international standard covering unambiguous
> abbreviations for both countries and states taken together.
>
> The 2LAs for Morocco and Massachusetts conflict also, both using "MA". So
> do Malta and Montana with "MT", Macao and Missouri "MO", Laos and
> Louisiana "LA", Israel (Iceland uses "IS") and Illinois "IL", India and
> Indiana "IN", Germany and Delaware "DE", Gabon and Georgia "GA", Cayman
> Islands and Kentucky "KY", Albania and Alabama "AL", Azerbaijan and
> Arizona "AZ", Indonesia and Idaho "ID", Mongolia and Minnesota "MN", Sudan
> and South Dakota "SD", Tunisia and Tennessee "TN" and Vatican City and
> Virginia "VA". There's probably more.

Indeed. I get confused with CA for Canada and California.

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