NAME
Acme::MetaSyntactic::regions - Administrative country subdivisions
DESCRIPTION
Most countries have administrative subdivisions, sometimes more than one level deep. This theme lists the first level of administrative divisions for a number of countries.
Depending on the country, they have differente names: regions, provinces, states, districts, emirates, parishes, dependencies, etc.
The main source for finding lists of regions is the ISO 3166-2 standard (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 2: Country subdivision code). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2.
CONTRIBUTORS
Abigail, Philippe Bruhat (BooK).
CHANGES
2013-07-29 - v1.001
Abigail cleaned up the US list and added US uninhabited territories, in Acme-MetaSyntactic-Themes version 1.035.
2013-10-22 - v1.000
Introduced in Acme-MetaSyntactic-Themes version 1.024.
2012-10-02
After several attempts to fill the list of regions by hand over the previous five months, finally used WWW::Mechanize to scrape all
ISO_3166-2:ccpages listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2 and Text::Unidecode to turn the names into valid Perl identifiers.2012-05-10
Extended the theme idea to administrative regions of any country, and started collecting all region names.
The default country remains
nl.2005-10-20
Abigail submitted a netherlands theme, with the names of the Dutch provinces.