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STANAG 1059
STANAG 1059 letter codes for geographical entities
Systems and data architects who build NATO-interoperable systems that record where a product originated, or mark its national security policy or releasability, by country.
STANAG 1059 is NATO's agreement on letter codes for geographical entities. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from a public NATO publication that cites it.
- Edition
- 8
- Published
- 2004-02-19
NATO has not released this STANAG publicly. It is NATO UNCLASSIFIED, and organisations that need it obtain it through their national standardization authority.
What it is
STANAG 1059 is the NATO Standardization Agreement on letter codes for geographical entities. Edition 8 was promulgated in February 2004, sponsored by MC, MCJSB, JINT. NATO has not released STANAG 1059 publicly, so this page describes it from AEDP-17, a public NATO publication that cites it.
Where it is cited
AEDP-17 lists STANAG 1059 Edition 8 among its referenced documents; AEP-84 also lists STANAG 1059. AEDP-17 cites it for the field that records the area over which a product was collected, spatialCountryCode, describing it as: "List of standards-based abbreviation (three character codes) of country names describing the area over which the product was collected".
For marking the national security policy used to classify product metadata, AEDP-17 states: "To indicate a national security policy Country Codes per STANAG 1059 should be used." Where a country is not listed by a three-character country code, it says "the province code from STANAG 1059 should be used (e.g. Kosovo is listed as a region in Yugoslavia with province code YU-KM)." For the releasability marking, it gives: "Typical values include one or more three character country codes as found in STANAG 1059". So, as AEDP-17 uses it, STANAG 1059 supplies both three-character country codes and province codes.
AEDP-17 also shows where STANAG 1059's coverage stops. For the collection area, it states: "In addition to those codes listed in STANAG 1059, the code IW may be used to represent ‘International Waters’." For security policies, where STANAG 1059 is not sufficient, it allows additional enumeration labels such as NATO/PFP. Both are AEDP-17's own additions, not codes from STANAG 1059.
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