There may indeed be several "United Kingdoms" around the world (I don't know)
Short answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 . "United Kingdom" describes the form of govt, not the name of the territory.
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The short name of "Republic of France" is FR not RE.. "France" is more important than the type of government--same thing
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