{"id":673,"date":"2022-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp3.geodatasource.com\/tutorials\/what-is-country-grouping-terminology\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:00:00","password":"","slug":"what-is-country-grouping-terminology","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/tutorials\/what-is-country-grouping-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Country Grouping Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img.jpg\" alt=\"What is Country Grouping Terminology\" class=\"wp-image-385\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img-50x25.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img-920x460.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gds-march-img-320x160.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Country Grouping is a group of countries that are treated as a single entity for the certification and specialization purposes. The member countries pool their resources in order to meet the requirements for certification and specialization. The country grouping is often referred to by a single term, word or abbreviation. The derivation of such terms includes political alliances, inter-governmental organization, business market areas and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GeoDataSource <strong>Country Grouping Terminology<\/strong> is a free data that provides a list of countries together with the grouping name. For example, APAC, ASEAN, EALA, OPEC, EU, etc. The country code follows the ISO 3166 standard which allows the data to be retrieved easily. The table below shows the example of the <strong>Country Grouping Terminology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example of Country Grouping<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Group Code<\/th><th>Countries<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>APAC<\/td><td>AS, AU, BD, BN, BT, CC, CK, CN, CX, FJ, FM, GN, GU, HK, ID, IN, JP, KH, KI, KP, KR, LA, LK, MH, MM, MN, MO, MP, MV, MY, NC, NF, NP, NR, NU, NZ, PF, PH, PK, PN, PW, RU, SB, SG, TH, TK, TL, TO, TV, TW, VN, VU, WF, WS<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>ASEAN<\/td><td>BN, CN, ID, JP, KH, KR, LA, MM, MY, PH, SG, TH, VN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>EU<\/td><td>AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, OM, PL, PT, SE, SI, SK<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Many more<\/td><td>Many more<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data Fields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are the data fields for the <strong><strong>Country Grouping Terminology<\/strong><\/strong> add-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Field Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>group_code<\/td><td>Code of countries group.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>group_name<\/td><td>Name of countries group.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>country_code<\/td><td>Two-character country code based on ISO 3166.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data Table<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to get the <strong><strong>Country Grouping Terminology<\/strong><\/strong> information, the <code>country_grouping_terminology<\/code> table can be created and loaded by the following code in MySQL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>-- Create table \"country_grouping_terminology\"\nCREATE TABLE `country_grouping_terminology`(\n\t`group_code` VARCHAR(50),\n\t`group_name` VARCHAR(200),\n\t`country_code` VARCHAR(2),\n\tINDEX `idx_group_code` (`group_code`)\n) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin;\n\n-- Load data into table\nLOAD DATA LOCAL\nINFILE 'GEODATASOURCE-COUNTRY-GROUPING-TERMINOLOGY.CSV'\nINTO TABLE `country_grouping_terminology`\nFIELDS TERMINATED BY ','\nENCLOSED BY '\"'\nLINES TERMINATED BY 'rn'\nIGNORE 1 LINES;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Licensing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Country Grouping Terminology list data is licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>. It is free for personal or commercial use with attribution required by mentioning the use of this data as follows, <strong>This site or product includes Country Grouping Terminology List data available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details about the <strong><strong>Country Grouping Terminology<\/strong><\/strong> add-on, you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/addon\/country-grouping-terminology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.geodatasource.com\/addon\/country-grouping-terminology<\/a> to learn more about the information provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Grouping is a group of countries that are treated as a single entity for the certification and specialization purposes. 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