A 14:21 2002-02-24 -0500, John Cowan a écrit :
>As I understand it, this request is more of a command. The only
>fully stable codes in 3166 are the numeric ones.
[Alain] Not even...
For example, if Québec (a territory currently 3 times as big as France)
eventually became a country it would have its code... and the current
numeric code for Canada would designate a different territory... Would that
mean even a different numeric code for the new country designated as Canada?
Asking the question is kind of answering it, I believe.
See the map I rebuilt (almost exact, with the data I had) of the original
territory called "Canada"(*) in 1535 (if Québec formed a new country and
became a republic, the original Canada -- a province of the kingdom of
France, then part of New France, a very small part of it which had a radius
of roughly at most 150 km around the city of Québec -- would no longer be
part of what would remain of Canada, now a constitutional monarchy whose
symbolic head of state lives in Buckingham Palace):
http://iquebec.ifrance.com/cyberiel/ProvCanada.jpg
Alain LaBonté
Québec
* : Canada is an algonquian word meaning "group of cabins",
"very small village"
Kébec is an algonquian word meaning
"where waters become narrow"
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