Ctry:  Country of Publication, etc.

See MARC Code List for Countries. Use the following guidelines for entering codes:

United States, Canada, United Kingdom. For items published in the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom, use a three-character code. The first two characters represent the state, province or other subdivision. The third character represents the country.

Australia. For items published in Australia, use either the three-character codes for Australian states and territories or the two-character code at for Australia. In the three-character codes, the first two characters represent the state or territory and the third character represents the country.

Two-character codes represent other countries. Enter such codes left-justified with blank in the third position.

Ctry			fr
264		1	Paris : ǂb Société mathématique de France, ǂc 2011

Reproductions. When cataloging with AACR2, if the item is a reproduction, use the code for the place of publication of the original, which is in field 260 subfield ǂa, not for the place of reproduction, which is in field 533 subfield ǂb. You may supply Ctry codes for the place of the reproduction in field 539 subfield ǂd.

When cataloging with RDA, if the item is a reproduction, use the code for the place of publication of the reproduction, which is in field 264 subfield ǂa, not for the place of original, which is in field 775 subfield ǂd or field 776 subfield ǂd.

Name and possession changes. Follow MARC 21:

Codes are assigned according to present geographic boundaries. A place which has historically been located in more than one political jurisdiction is coded for the jurisdiction in which it is presently located. See MARC Code List for Countries.

Ctry			ru
264		1	Königsberg Pr. : ǂb Synagogengemeinde, ǂc 1924-
			[The German city of Königsberg was ceded to Russia and renamed Kaliningrad in 1945.]

Unknown place of publication. If no place of publication is in field 260 or field 264, use code xx. If the imprint has the phrase, Place of publication not identified, use code xx. If the place (e.g., city) is known but the country is unknown, use code xx.

Ctry			xx
264		1	[Place of publication not identified] : ǂb Crink, ǂc [2010]
264		4	ǂc ©2010

Theses and dissertations. If a commercially published thesis or dissertation contains a commercial-publisher name in field 260 or field 264, use the place in field 260 subfield ǂa or field 264 subfield ǂa for Ctry. Use code xx for original and reproduced theses and dissertations.

Ctry			xx
264		0	ǂc 2013
502			ǂb M.S. ǂc Iona College ǂd 2013

Multiple places of publication. If more than one place of publication appears in the imprint, use the code that represents the state or country of the first place listed. Usually, the British Library codes records for the British place of publication, although another place may be listed first. Optionally, the code may be repeated in field 044.

Various places of publication. Use code vp for various places of publication only if the imprint has v.p. Do not use the abbreviation v.p. in AACR2 or RDA cataloging. Do not use code vp for original cataloging.

Questionable places of publication. If a question mark follows the place of publication in the imprint, code as if there is no doubt about the place of publication. If the place of publication is in brackets, code for that place as if there is no doubt about the place of publication.

Fictitious places of publication. When cataloging under AACR2, if field 260 names both a fictitious place of publication and a real place of publication, use the code for the real place. If the real place of publication is unknown, use the code for the fictitious place.

Ctry			ie
260			Belfast [i.e. Dublin : ǂb publisher not identified], ǂc 1982

When cataloging under RDA, if field 264 names a fictitious place of publication and a real place of publication is included in a note, use the code for the fictitious place.

Multipart items. If you are cataloging a multipart item, use the code for the state or country of publication of the first piece cataloged. Do not change the code if later parts are published in a different place.

Ctry			ii
264		1	Hyderabad-Deccan : ǂb Government Central Press, ǂc 1932
264	3	1	ǂ3 Volume 2: ǂa London : ǂb Waterlow & Sons Limited