country

Term name
country

Definition
The name of the country or major administrative unit in which the Location occurs. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.

Recommendation
Recommended

Guidelines

 * Use controlled vocabulary (see link below)
 * Country codes
 * Use your internal controlled vocabulary (own language)
 * Use verbatim

Controlled vocabulary

 * Use this controlled vocabulary: http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNNationPopup

Other resources
LINKS TO RESOURCES, PERHAPS WITH EXPLANATION