Reference of countries and territories

**Context for the production of the dataset:** This publication is made as part of a call for comments on the dataset. We seek to capture: 1. Your remarks and potential corrections 2. Your proposals for improvement We also consider the extension of the opening perimeter; for example: international telephone codes, cities, translation into UN languages, historisation, etc. **Precautions for use: ** This list of countries and territories of the world was drawn up in the first half of 2023. It aims to link the main references of the same nature published in French by reference French public bodies (official geographical code of INSEE) and international institutions (UN, ISO, International Telecommunication Union). Entities recognised as such by France shall be considered sovereign States. Other entities are referred to as belonging to a sovereign State if so. Some entities are not attached to any sovereign State when their status or guardianship is contested or indefinite. The list thus drawn does not define a political or geographical partitioning of the world. In addition to territorial disputes that maintain uncertainty as to the administrative attachment of certain right-of-way, some territories may refer to several different entries on the list. Indeed, the repositories taken into account can qualify as several distinct names in the same territory. Thus, the Spanish Provinces of Africa (name appearing in the official geographical code of INSEE) can be considered to include the Canary Islands and the Presidents. Where, in the reference denominations, the wording of a territory includes several geographical names (toponyms) separated by “and” or by a comma, each of these names corresponds to a separate entry in the list, with the exception of entities for which the coordination conjunction is integrated into the toponym (e.g. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon), which results in the presence of hyphen on both sides of the coordination conjunction. Discrepancies between referentials lead to the duplication of certain headings as well as the presence of empty values.**数据集制作背景：** 本成果系该数据集公开征求意见工作的组成部分。本次征集的内容包括： 1. 您的反馈意见与潜在修正建议 2. 您提出的优化方案 此外，我们还考虑拓展数据集的初始覆盖范围，例如新增国际电话区号、城市信息、译为联合国官方语言的内容、历史记录等。 **使用注意事项：** 本全球国家与地区列表编制于2023年上半年，旨在整合法国公共机构（如法国国家统计与经济研究所（INSEE）官方地理编码）及国际机构（联合国（UN）、国际标准化组织（ISO）、国际电信联盟（International Telecommunication Union））发布的法语版同类权威参考资料。 被法国认定为主权实体的地区将被视作主权国家；其他实体若符合条件，则归类为所属主权国家的一部分。对于地位或监护权存在争议、尚未明确的实体，则不隶属于任何主权国家。 本列表仅为汇总参考，不构成对世界政治或地理边界的划分。除部分领土争端导致部分地区的行政归属仍存在不确定性外，部分领土可能在本列表中对应多个不同条目。 事实上，不同参考源中同一领土可能存在多种不同命名。例如，INSEE官方地理编码中收录的“西班牙非洲省份”，可被认为涵盖加那利群岛与the Presidents。 若参考命名中，某一领土的表述包含多个以"and"或逗号分隔的地理名称（地名），则每个名称均对应列表中的独立条目；但当地位连词本身即为地名的一部分时（例如圣皮埃尔和密克隆（Saint-Pierre and Miquelon）），则需在连词两侧添加连字符。 不同参考源之间的差异可能导致部分条目重复，或出现空值。