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item,B,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/01/02/nationalities/,"02/01/2007: Nationalities, Countries, Languages, Cultures, Ethnicity and The Web","<p>user wrote:</p>  <blockquote><p>Anyone have a full list of Nationalities?<br> Eg: Germans, French, British, Malaysian, etc etc</p></blockquote>  <p>A lot of people within Britain might not consider themselves British, but rather English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, or perhaps even Cornish. Think also of Kosovo, Quebec and Tibet. People can be quite emotive about such issues. (The list from your third post in this thread doesn&#8217;t include &#8220;Palestinian&#8221;&nbsp;&#8212; how many Palestinians are going to want to choose &#8220;Israeli&#8221; from your list?!)</p>  <p>For what purpose to you need this information? If you need to ask where a visitor lives, or what their citizenship is, it is better to use a drop-down list of countries rather than nationalities.</p>  <p>If you Google for &#8220;ISO 3166&#8221;, then you&#8217;ll find a handy list of countries, along with useful 2 and 3 letter codes, and 3 digit numerical codes to identify them. Storing the 2 digit code in a database, instead of the full country name, may save some space, and may help later if you need to integrate your database with some other&#8230;</p>"