This year’s card is formed of country code top-level internet domains, derived from ISO 3166-1: “Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes”. Its “alpha-2” two-letter country codes are used, with a few exceptions, for internet country code top-level domains. Each domain code represents the initial letter of the name of its country or region in its accepted form used in the English language. So “uk” (meaning “.uk”), for example, would represent United Kingdom and thus the letter U (not needed here, as it happens).
To make the puzzle non-trivial, I had to include many examples of the minority of cases where the domain code does not start with the same letter as the country name.
Front page
This translates as:
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H |
.ht |
Haiti |
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A |
.dz |
Algeria |
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P |
.cn |
People's Republic of China |
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P |
.pg |
Papua New Guinea |
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Y |
.ye |
Yemen |
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C |
.td |
Chad |
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H |
.hu |
Hungary |
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R |
.kr |
Republic of Korea |
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I |
.is |
Iceland |
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S |
.za |
South Africa |
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T |
.gm |
The Gambia |
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M |
.yt |
Mayotte |
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A |
.dz |
Algeria |
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S |
.ch |
Switzerland |
– giving:
Inside page
This translates as:
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A |
.dz |
Algeria |
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N |
.an |
Netherlands Antilles |
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D |
.cd |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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B |
.io |
British Indian Ocean Territory |
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E |
.sv |
El Salvador |
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S |
.lk |
Sri Lanka |
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T |
.gm |
The Gambia |
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W |
.eh |
Western Sahara |
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I |
.in |
India |
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S |
.es |
Spain |
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H |
.hk |
Hong Kong |
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E |
.tl |
East Timor |
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S |
.rs |
Serbia |
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F |
.gf |
French Guiana |
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O |
.om |
Oman |
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R |
.cg |
Republic of the Congo |
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T |
.gm |
The Gambia |
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W |
.eh |
Western Sahara |
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E |
.gq |
Equatorial Guinea |
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N |
.mp |
Northern Mariana Islands |
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T |
.gm |
The Gambia |
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Y |
.ye |
Yemen |
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S |
.kn |
Saint Kitts and Nevis |
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E |
.sv |
El Salvador |
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V |
.ve |
Venezuela |
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E |
.tl |
East Timor |
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N |
.an |
Netherlands Antilles |
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T |
.gm |
The Gambia |
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E |
.gq |
Equatorial Guinea |
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E |
.sv |
El Salvador |
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N |
.mp |
Northern Mariana Islands |
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|
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F |
.pf |
French Polynesia |
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R |
.kr |
Republic of Korea |
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O |
.om |
Oman |
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M |
.yt |
Mayotte |
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B |
.vg |
British Virgin Islands |
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R |
.cg |
Republic of the Congo |
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I |
.im |
Isle of Man |
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A |
.dz |
Algeria |
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N |
.an |
Netherlands Antilles |
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|
|
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B |
.io |
British Indian Ocean Territory |
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A |
.dz |
Algeria |
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R |
.kr |
Republic of Korea |
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K |
.ke |
Kenya |
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E |
.tl |
East Timor |
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R |
.cg |
Republic of the Congo |
– giving:
There was no way to represent punctuation using this code, so I couldn’t manage the appropriate hyphen in “twenty-seventeen”.
Version 3: Revised 24 December 2017
Brian Barker