SU

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SU was the two-letter country code used to represent the former Soviet Union in various international standards and systems.

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Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf ISO 3166 code element
country code
abbreviationOf Soviet Union
alpha2CodeFor Soviet Union
assignedBy ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
International Organization for Standardization
category former country code
changeReason dissolution of the Soviet Union
codeType alpha-2
codingSystemContext country identification
state identification
distinctFrom RU
RUS
Russian Federation country codes
geographicalAssociation Eurasia
hasLegacyUse archival records
historical statistics
long-lived information systems
hasProperty still reserved to avoid conflict with legacy data
languageOfAbbreviation English
notReassignedTo any new country
politicalAssociation communist state bloc (historical)
previousStatus officially assigned
relatedThreeLetterCode SUN
relatedTopLevelDomain .su
represents Soviet Union
representsFormerEntity USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
representsHistoricalCountry Soviet Union
scopeOfUse banking and finance systems
data processing systems
international standards
telecommunications
transportation coding systems
status exceptionally reserved
reserved
timePeriodOfOfficialUse 20th century
late 20th century
usedAlongside SUN
usedAs internet country code top-level domain prefix in some contexts
usedIn computer databases referencing the USSR
international sports coding (historically)
international trade documentation (historically)
machine-readable travel documents (historically)
usedInStandard ISO 3166
ISO 3166-1

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Soviet Union
countryCode
.rf (".su")
relatedTLD
Bad Honnef
vehicleRegistrationCode

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