UN/LOCODE

UN / LOCODE (english United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations ) is a code for geographic places, which is by the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE ), an agency of the United Nations ( UN), developed and updated.

Basics

With more than 42,000 entries, place names of places with importance for the economy and transport, especially places with seaports, airports (in this case the abbreviation is usually the same as the IATA code ), stations, junctions for highways and border crossings, in 235 countries assigned.

UN / Locodes typically consist of five letters. The first two letters are the country code according to ISO 3166-1 alpha -2. The place within the country is usually indicated by three letters, however, if the possible combinations are not sufficient, and numbers can be used.

UN / LOCODE each defined a notation of the name in Latin letters and a predominantly national language. As well as a notation that (eg German umlauts ) works without diacritics.

Examples

A list of country codes can be found in the ISO -3166 -1 Kodierliste.

Use

UN / LOCODE is becoming increasingly common.

Shipping

The International Maritime Organization ( IMO) recommends the use of UN / LOCODE within the automatic identification system AIS 2005. Meanwhile, the LOCODE is used worldwide in AIS traffic for confusion -free description of the place of departure and destination of a ship and its cargo.