humble_boatsman comments on Share of the European population living in their own homes

[–] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is CHE stand for? And I'm assuming that is Switzerland?

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

It is Switzerland. They use Confoederatio Helvetica which is why their currency is abbreviated CHF (Confoederatio Helvetica Franc) and their top level domain is .ch but I am not aware why they are called CHE on this map.

Edit: I looked it up and apparently it's their ISO country code.

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[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago

What's weird to me is the choice of the 3-letter code instead of the 2-letter one. (The one almost always used). Especially when "UK" is 2-letter.

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[–] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Confoederatio HElvetica

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[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

It comes from the Latin word for Switzerland (or at least what was there back then).

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