Column type and size for international country subdivisions (states, provinces, territories etc)
问题 I apologize if this is a duplication. What column standardization would you use for storing international country subdivision data? For example, if it was just US and Canada I believe all subdivisions have a 2-character abbreviation... which might lend to a Char(2) This cannot possibly be sustainable internationally lest we presume there are only 1296 (A-Z, 0-9) subdivisions. I've been unsuccessful locating an ISO list of these or even an indication of how to store them. That's fine, I don't