ISO 3166-1

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ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent territories. It was first published in 1974 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and defines three different codes for each country or territory:

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a two-letter system with many applications, most notably the Internet top-level domains (ccTLD) for countries (with some exceptions).
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, a three-letter system.
• ISO 3166-1 numeric, a three-digit numerical system, which is identical to that defined by the United Nations Statistical Division.

Currently, 244 countries and territories are assigned official codes by ISO 3166-1. According to the Maintenance Agency for ISO 3166 country codes, a country or territory must be listed in the United Nations Terminology Bulletin Country Names or Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division. To be listed in the bulletin Country Names a country or territory must be any of the following:

• a United Nations member state,
• a member of any of the UN specialized agencies or
• a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice.

A country or territory generally gets new alpha codes if its name changes, whereas a new numeric code is associated with a change of boundaries. Some codes in each series are reserved, for various reasons; obsolete codes may be kept as reserved, borders may be considered likely to change, and some overseas territories have reserved codes of their own.

ISO 3166-1 is not the only standard for country codes. The IOC and FIFA have their own lists (see List of IOC country codes and List of FIFA country codes) of three-letter codes which mostly correspond to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes.

Contents 1 ISO 3166-1 code list, sorted by English short name of country or territory 2 Newsletters 3 Reference 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] ISO 3166-1 code list, sorted by English short name of country or territory

The following is a complete ISO 3166-1 encoding code list in alphabetical order by the English short country names officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA). The ISO 3166/MA uses country names from United Nations sources [1], and hence, names such as "Palestinian Territory, Occupied" and "Taiwan, Province of China" reflect the countries' political status within the UN.

The table includes officially assigned codes only. For user-assigned codes, see the corresponding sections in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 and ISO 3166-1 numeric. For reserved codes, see the corresponding sections in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (ISO 3166-1 numeric does not have reserved codes).

Official country names used by the ISO 3166/MA	Numeric	Alpha-3	Alpha-2	Local ISO codes
Afghanistan	004	AFG	AF	ISO 3166-2:AF
Åland Islands	248	ALA	AX	ISO 3166-2:AX
Albania	008	ALB	AL	ISO 3166-2:AL
Algeria	012	DZA	DZ	ISO 3166-2:DZ
American Samoa	016	ASM	AS	ISO 3166-2:AS
Andorra	020	AND	AD	ISO 3166-2:AD
Angola	024	AGO	AO	ISO 3166-2:AO
Anguilla	660	AIA	AI	ISO 3166-2:AI
Antarctica	010	ATA	AQ	ISO 3166-2:AQ
Antigua and Barbuda	028	ATG	AG	ISO 3166-2:AG
Argentina	032	ARG	AR	ISO 3166-2:AR
Armenia	051	ARM	AM	ISO 3166-2:AM
Aruba	533	ABW	AW	ISO 3166-2:AW
Australia	036	AUS	AU	ISO 3166-2:AU
Austria	040	AUT	AT	ISO 3166-2:AT
Azerbaijan	031	AZE	AZ	ISO 3166-2:AZ
Bahamas	044	BHS	BS	ISO 3166-2:BS
Bahrain	048	BHR	BH	ISO 3166-2:BH
Bangladesh	050	BGD	BD	ISO 3166-2:BD
Barbados	052	BRB	BB	ISO 3166-2:BB
Belarus	112	BLR	BY	ISO 3166-2:BY
Belgium	056	BEL	BE	ISO 3166-2:BE
Belize	084	BLZ	BZ	ISO 3166-2:BZ
Benin	204	BEN	BJ	ISO 3166-2:BJ
Bermuda	060	BMU	BM	ISO 3166-2:BM
Bhutan	064	BTN	BT	ISO 3166-2:BT
Bolivia	068	BOL	BO	ISO 3166-2:BO
Bosnia and Herzegovina	070	BIH	BA	ISO 3166-2:BA
Botswana	072	BWA	BW	ISO 3166-2:BW
Bouvet Island	074	BVT	BV	ISO 3166-2:BV
Brazil	076	BRA	BR	ISO 3166-2:BR
British Indian Ocean Territory	086	IOT	IO	ISO 3166-2:IO
Brunei Darussalam	096	BRN	BN	ISO 3166-2:BN
Bulgaria	100	BGR	BG	ISO 3166-2:BG
Burkina Faso	854	BFA	BF	ISO 3166-2:BF
Burundi	108	BDI	BI	ISO 3166-2:BI
Cambodia	116	KHM	KH	ISO 3166-2:KH
Cameroon	120	CMR	CM	ISO 3166-2:CM
Canada	124	CAN	CA	ISO 3166-2:CA
Cape Verde	132	CPV	CV	ISO 3166-2:CV
Cayman Islands	136	CYM	KY	ISO 3166-2:KY
Central African Republic	140	CAF	CF	ISO 3166-2:CF
Chad	148	TCD	TD	ISO 3166-2:TD
Chile	152	CHL	CL	ISO 3166-2:CL
China	156	CHN	CN	ISO 3166-2:CN
Christmas Island	162	CXR	CX	ISO 3166-2:CX
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	166	CCK	CC	ISO 3166-2:CC
Colombia	170	COL	CO	ISO 3166-2:CO
Comoros	174	COM	KM	ISO 3166-2:KM
Congo	178	COG	CG	ISO 3166-2:CG
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	180	COD	CD	ISO 3166-2:CD
Cook Islands	184	COK	CK	ISO 3166-2:CK
Costa Rica	188	CRI	CR	ISO 3166-2:CR
Côte d'Ivoire	384	CIV	CI	ISO 3166-2:CI
Croatia	191	HRV	HR	ISO 3166-2:HR
Cuba	192	CUB	CU	ISO 3166-2:CU
Cyprus	196	CYP	CY	ISO 3166-2:CY
Czech Republic	203	CZE	CZ	ISO 3166-2:CZ
Denmark	208	DNK	DK	ISO 3166-2:DK
Djibouti	262	DJI	DJ	ISO 3166-2:DJ
Dominica	212	DMA	DM	ISO 3166-2:DM
Dominican Republic	214	DOM	DO	ISO 3166-2:DO
Ecuador	218	ECU	EC	ISO 3166-2:EC
Egypt	818	EGY	EG	ISO 3166-2:EG
El Salvador	222	SLV	SV	ISO 3166-2:SV
Equatorial Guinea	226	GNQ	GQ	ISO 3166-2:GQ
Eritrea	232	ERI	ER	ISO 3166-2:ER
Estonia	233	EST	EE	ISO 3166-2:EE
Ethiopia	231	ETH	ET	ISO 3166-2:ET
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	238	FLK	FK	ISO 3166-2:FK
Faroe Islands	234	FRO	FO	ISO 3166-2:FO
Fiji	242	FJI	FJ	ISO 3166-2:FJ
Finland	246	FIN	FI	ISO 3166-2:FI
France	250	FRA	FR	ISO 3166-2:FR
French Guiana	254	GUF	GF	ISO 3166-2:GF
French Polynesia	258	PYF	PF	ISO 3166-2:PF
French Southern Territories	260	ATF	TF	ISO 3166-2:TF
Gabon	266	GAB	GA	ISO 3166-2:GA
Gambia	270	GMB	GM	ISO 3166-2:GM
Georgia	268	GEO	GE	ISO 3166-2:GE
Germany	276	DEU	DE	ISO 3166-2:DE
Ghana	288	GHA	GH	ISO 3166-2:GH
Gibraltar	292	GIB	GI	ISO 3166-2:GI
Greece	300	GRC	GR	ISO 3166-2:GR
Greenland	304	GRL	GL	ISO 3166-2:GL
Grenada	308	GRD	GD	ISO 3166-2:GD
Guadeloupe	312	GLP	GP	ISO 3166-2:GP
Guam	316	GUM	GU	ISO 3166-2:GU
Guatemala	320	GTM	GT	ISO 3166-2:GT
Guernsey	831	GGY	GG	ISO 3166-2:GG
Guinea	324	GIN	GN	ISO 3166-2:GN
Guinea-Bissau	624	GNB	GW	ISO 3166-2:GW
Guyana	328	GUY	GY	ISO 3166-2:GY
Haiti	332	HTI	HT	ISO 3166-2:HT
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	334	HMD	HM	ISO 3166-2:HM
Holy See (Vatican City State)	336	VAT	VA	ISO 3166-2:VA
Honduras	340	HND	HN	ISO 3166-2:HN
Hong Kong	344	HKG	HK	ISO 3166-2:HK
Hungary	348	HUN	HU	ISO 3166-2:HU
Iceland	352	ISL	IS	ISO 3166-2:IS
India	356	IND	IN	ISO 3166-2:IN
Indonesia	360	IDN	ID	ISO 3166-2:ID
Iran, Islamic Republic of	364	IRN	IR	ISO 3166-2:IR
Iraq	368	IRQ	IQ	ISO 3166-2:IQ
Ireland	372	IRL	IE	ISO 3166-2:IE
Isle of Man	833	IMN	IM	ISO 3166-2:IM
Israel	376	ISR	IL	ISO 3166-2:IL
Italy	380	ITA	IT	ISO 3166-2:IT
Jamaica	388	JAM	JM	ISO 3166-2:JM
Japan	392	JPN	JP	ISO 3166-2:JP
Jersey	832	JEY	JE	ISO 3166-2:JE
Jordan	400	JOR	JO	ISO 3166-2:JO
Kazakhstan	398	KAZ	KZ	ISO 3166-2:KZ
Kenya	404	KEN	KE	ISO 3166-2:KE
Kiribati	296	KIR	KI	ISO 3166-2:KI
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	408	PRK	KP	ISO 3166-2:KP
Korea, Republic of	410	KOR	KR	ISO 3166-2:KR
Kuwait	414	KWT	KW	ISO 3166-2:KW
Kyrgyzstan	417	KGZ	KG	ISO 3166-2:KG
Lao People's Democratic Republic	418	LAO	LA	ISO 3166-2:LA
Latvia	428	LVA	LV	ISO 3166-2:LV
Lebanon	422	LBN	LB	ISO 3166-2:LB
Lesotho	426	LSO	LS	ISO 3166-2:LS
Liberia	430	LBR	LR	ISO 3166-2:LR
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	434	LBY	LY	ISO 3166-2:LY
Liechtenstein	438	LIE	LI	ISO 3166-2:LI
Lithuania	440	LTU	LT	ISO 3166-2:LT
Luxembourg	442	LUX	LU	ISO 3166-2:LU
Macao	446	MAC	MO	ISO 3166-2:MO
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of	807	MKD	MK	ISO 3166-2:MK
Madagascar	450	MDG	MG	ISO 3166-2:MG
Malawi	454	MWI	MW	ISO 3166-2:MW
Malaysia	458	MYS	MY	ISO 3166-2:MY
Maldives	462	MDV	MV	ISO 3166-2:MV
Mali	466	MLI	ML	ISO 3166-2:ML
Malta	470	MLT	MT	ISO 3166-2:MT
Marshall Islands	584	MHL	MH	ISO 3166-2:MH
Martinique	474	MTQ	MQ	ISO 3166-2:MQ
Mauritania	478	MRT	MR	ISO 3166-2:MR
Mauritius	480	MUS	MU	ISO 3166-2:MU
Mayotte	175	MYT	YT	ISO 3166-2:YT
Mexico	484	MEX	MX	ISO 3166-2:MX
Micronesia, Federated States of	583	FSM	FM	ISO 3166-2:FM
Moldova, Republic of	498	MDA	MD	ISO 3166-2:MD
Monaco	492	MCO	MC	ISO 3166-2:MC
Mongolia	496	MNG	MN	ISO 3166-2:MN
Montenegro	499	MNE	ME	ISO 3166-2:ME
Montserrat	500	MSR	MS	ISO 3166-2:MS
Morocco	504	MAR	MA	ISO 3166-2:MA
Mozambique	508	MOZ	MZ	ISO 3166-2:MZ
Myanmar	104	MMR	MM	ISO 3166-2:MM
Namibia	516	NAM	NA	ISO 3166-2:NA
Nauru	520	NRU	NR	ISO 3166-2:NR
Nepal	524	NPL	NP	ISO 3166-2:NP
Netherlands	528	NLD	NL	ISO 3166-2:NL
Netherlands Antilles	530	ANT	AN	ISO 3166-2:AN
New Caledonia	540	NCL	NC	ISO 3166-2:NC
New Zealand	554	NZL	NZ	ISO 3166-2:NZ
Nicaragua	558	NIC	NI	ISO 3166-2:NI
Niger	562	NER	NE	ISO 3166-2:NE
Nigeria	566	NGA	NG	ISO 3166-2:NG
Niue	570	NIU	NU	ISO 3166-2:NU
Norfolk Island	574	NFK	NF	ISO 3166-2:NF
Northern Mariana Islands	580	MNP	MP	ISO 3166-2:MP
Norway	578	NOR	NO	ISO 3166-2:NO
Oman	512	OMN	OM	ISO 3166-2:OM
Pakistan	586	PAK	PK	ISO 3166-2:PK
Palau	585	PLW	PW	ISO 3166-2:PW
Palestinian Territory, Occupied	275	PSE	PS	ISO 3166-2:PS
Panama	591	PAN	PA	ISO 3166-2:PA
Papua New Guinea	598	PNG	PG	ISO 3166-2:PG
Paraguay	600	PRY	PY	ISO 3166-2:PY
Peru	604	PER	PE	ISO 3166-2:PE
Philippines	608	PHL	PH	ISO 3166-2:PH
Pitcairn	612	PCN	PN	ISO 3166-2:PN
Poland	616	POL	PL	ISO 3166-2:PL
Portugal	620	PRT	PT	ISO 3166-2:PT
Puerto Rico	630	PRI	PR	ISO 3166-2:PR
Qatar	634	QAT	QA	ISO 3166-2:QA
Réunion	638	REU	RE	ISO 3166-2:RE
Romania	642	ROU	RO	ISO 3166-2:RO
Russian Federation	643	RUS	RU	ISO 3166-2:RU
Rwanda	646	RWA	RW	ISO 3166-2:RW
Saint Helena	654	SHN	SH	ISO 3166-2:SH
Saint Kitts and Nevis	659	KNA	KN	ISO 3166-2:KN
Saint Lucia	662	LCA	LC	ISO 3166-2:LC
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	666	SPM	PM	ISO 3166-2:PM
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	670	VCT	VC	ISO 3166-2:VC
Samoa	882	WSM	WS	ISO 3166-2:WS
San Marino	674	SMR	SM	ISO 3166-2:SM
Sao Tome and Principe	678	STP	ST	ISO 3166-2:ST
Saudi Arabia	682	SAU	SA	ISO 3166-2:SA
Senegal	686	SEN	SN	ISO 3166-2:SN
Serbia	688	SRB	RS	ISO 3166-2:RS
Seychelles	690	SYC	SC	ISO 3166-2:SC
Sierra Leone	694	SLE	SL	ISO 3166-2:SL
Singapore	702	SGP	SG	ISO 3166-2:SG
Slovakia	703	SVK	SK	ISO 3166-2:SK
Slovenia	705	SVN	SI	ISO 3166-2:SI
Solomon Islands	090	SLB	SB	ISO 3166-2:SB
Somalia	706	SOM	SO	ISO 3166-2:SO
South Africa	710	ZAF	ZA	ISO 3166-2:ZA
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	239	SGS	GS	ISO 3166-2:GS
Spain	724	ESP	ES	ISO 3166-2:ES
Sri Lanka	144	LKA	LK	ISO 3166-2:LK
Sudan	736	SDN	SD	ISO 3166-2:SD
Suriname	740	SUR	SR	ISO 3166-2:SR
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	744	SJM	SJ	ISO 3166-2:SJ
Swaziland	748	SWZ	SZ	ISO 3166-2:SZ
Sweden	752	SWE	SE	ISO 3166-2:SE
Switzerland	756	CHE	CH	ISO 3166-2:CH
Syrian Arab Republic	760	SYR	SY	ISO 3166-2:SY
Taiwan, Province of China	158	TWN	TW	ISO 3166-2:TW
Tajikistan	762	TJK	TJ	ISO 3166-2:TJ
Tanzania, United Republic of	834	TZA	TZ	ISO 3166-2:TZ
Thailand	764	THA	TH	ISO 3166-2:TH
Timor-Leste	626	TLS	TL	ISO 3166-2:TL
Togo	768	TGO	TG	ISO 3166-2:TG
Tokelau	772	TKL	TK	ISO 3166-2:TK
Tonga	776	TON	TO	ISO 3166-2:TO
Trinidad and Tobago	780	TTO	TT	ISO 3166-2:TT
Tunisia	788	TUN	TN	ISO 3166-2:TN
Turkey	792	TUR	TR	ISO 3166-2:TR
Turkmenistan	795	TKM	TM	ISO 3166-2:TM
Turks and Caicos Islands	796	TCA	TC	ISO 3166-2:TC
Tuvalu	798	TUV	TV	ISO 3166-2:TV
Uganda	800	UGA	UG	ISO 3166-2:UG
Ukraine	804	UKR	UA	ISO 3166-2:UA
United Arab Emirates	784	ARE	AE	ISO 3166-2:AE
United Kingdom	826	GBR	GB	ISO 3166-2:GB
United States	840	USA	US	ISO 3166-2:US
United States Minor Outlying Islands	581	UMI	UM	ISO 3166-2:UM
Uruguay	858	URY	UY	ISO 3166-2:UY
Uzbekistan	860	UZB	UZ	ISO 3166-2:UZ
Vanuatu	548	VUT	VU	ISO 3166-2:VU
Venezuela	862	VEN	VE	ISO 3166-2:VE
Viet Nam	704	VNM	VN	ISO 3166-2:VN
Virgin Islands, British	092	VGB	VG	ISO 3166-2:VG
Virgin Islands, U.S.	850	VIR	VI	ISO 3166-2:VI
Wallis and Futuna	876	WLF	WF	ISO 3166-2:WF
Western Sahara	732	ESH	EH	ISO 3166-2:EH
Yemen	887	YEM	YE	ISO 3166-2:YE
Zambia	894	ZMB	ZM	ISO 3166-2:ZM
Zimbabwe	716	ZWE	ZW	ISO 3166-2:ZW

[edit] Newsletters

Changes to ISO 3166-1 are announced in periodic newsletters, of which 12 have been released since the fifth edition of the standard was issued in 1997:

1. Published 1998-02-05: change of name for Samoa, available in English and French
2. Published 1999-10-01: change of name for Occupied Palestinian Territory, available in English and French
3. Published 2002-02-01: change of alpha-3 Code Element for Romania, available in English and French
4. Published 2002-05-20: change of name for various countries, available in English and French
5. Published 2002-05-20: change of name and codes for East Timor, available in English and French
6. Published 2002-11-15: change of name and codes for Timor-Leste, available in English and French
7. Published 2002-11-15: change of official name of Comoros, available in English and French
8. Published 2003-07-23: deletion of Yugoslavia, inclusion of Serbia and Montenegro, available in English and French
9. Published 2004-02-13: new entry for Åland Islands, available in English and French
10. Published 2004-04-26: change of name for Afghanistan and Åland Islands, available in English and French
11. Published 2006-03-29: new entries for Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Jersey, available in English and French
12. Published 2006-09-26: deletion of Serbia and Montenegro, new entries for Serbia and Montenegro, available in English and French

[edit] Reference

Information on reserved codes taken from "Reserved code elements under ISO 3166-1" published by Secretariat of ISO/TC 46, ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, 2001-02-13, available on request from ISO 3166/MA.

[edit] See also

• ISO 3166-2
• ISO 3166-3
• Comparison of IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes
• Federal Information Processing Standard

[edit] External links

• ISO 3166/MA – ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency at the International Organization for Standardization – includes up-to-date lists of two-letter codes.
• United Nations Statistics Division – Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use – includes three-letter and numeric codes.
• CIA World Factbook – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes (public domain)
• a list of ISO 3166-1 codes (including three-letter and numeric codes), and includes information about changes that have been made over the years.
• an xml document containing country codes and country names in 7 languages.

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