A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long (lowercase), and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
From the hints given (ccTLD, continent, an indication of whether the location is a sovereign state and — in some cases — an explanation), guess the location to which the ccTLD has been delegated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
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ccTLD
Continent
Sovereign
State?
Explanation
Answer
.pn
Oceania
N
Pitcairn Islands
.bd
Asia
Y
Bangladesh
.ve
S. Amer.
Y
Venezuela
.to
Oceania
Y
Tonga
.kr
Asia
Y
While the two letters of the ccTLD do occur in this order in the informal English language name of the country, the country’s name does not begin with “K.” The code is derived from the country’s official English language name, in which the two letters occur in the opposite order.
South Korea
.ie
Europe
Y
Ireland
.pm
N. Amer.
N
The location’s first word, which occurs as the first word of many location names in English, was ignored when deriving this code.
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
.gl
N. Amer.
N
Greenland
.kh
Asia
Y
From the name of the country in its official language (as transliterated into Latin characters). The country’s native name and its official language have the same name.
Cambodia
.yt
Africa
N
The two letters in the code occur in that order in the location’s name, but the location’s name does not begin with “Y.”
Mayotte
.lv
Europe
Y
Latvia
.nu
Oceania
N
Niue
.aq
Antarctica
N
The code is derived from the location’s French language name.