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= ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 =
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Introduction
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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO
3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries,
dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
They are the most widely used of the country codes published by ISO
(the others being alpha-3 and numeric), and are used most prominently
for the Internet's country code top-level domains (with a few
exceptions). They are also used as country identifiers extending the
postal code when appropriate within the international postal system
for paper mail, and have replaced the previous one consisting
one-letter codes. They were first included as part of the ISO 3166
standard in its first edition in 1974.
Uses and applications
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The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are used in different environments and
are also part of other standards. In some cases they are not perfectly
implemented.
Perfect implementations
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The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are used in the following standards:
Short name Long name Comment
ISO 3166-2 Country subdivision code
ISO 3901 International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
ISO 4217 Currency code
ISO 6166 International Securities Identifying Number (ISIN)
ISO 9362 Bank Identifier Codes (BIC) Also known as SWIFT codes
ISO 13616 International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
ISO 15511 International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related
Organizations (ISIL)
UN/LOCODE United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations
Implemented by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Imperfect implementations
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Starting in 1985, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes have been used in the
Domain Name System as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). The
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority currently assigns the ccTLDs
mostly following the alpha-2 codes, but with a few exceptions. For
example, the United Kingdom, whose alpha-2 code is , uses .uk instead
of .gb as its ccTLD, as is currently exceptionally reserved in ISO
3166-1 on the request of the United Kingdom.
The WIPO coding standard ST.3 is based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes,
but includes a number of additional codes for international
intellectual property organizations, which are currently reserved and
not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.
The European Commission generally uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes with
two exceptions: (not ) is used to represent Greece, and (not ) is
used to represent the United Kingdom. This notwithstanding, the
'Official Journal of the European Communities' specified that and be
used to represent Greece and United Kingdom respectively. For VAT
administration purposes, the European Commission uses and for Greece
and the United Kingdom respectively.
The United Nations uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and
alpha-3 codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO
3166, for international vehicle registration codes, which are codes
used to identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate;
some of these codes are currently indeterminately reserved in ISO
3166-1.
IETF language tags (conforming to the BCP 47 standard track and
maintained in an IANA registry) are also partially derived from ISO
3166-1 alpha-2 codes (for the region subtags). The full list of ISO
3166-1 codes assigned to countries and territories are usable as
region subtags. Also, the "exceptionally reserved" alpha-2 codes
defined in ISO 3166-1 (with the exception of ) are also usable as
region subtags for language tags. However, newer stability policies
(agreed with ISO) have been implemented to avoid deleting subtags that
have been withdrawn in ISO 3166-1; instead they are kept and aliased
to the new preferred subtags, or kept as subtags grouping several
countries. Some other region grouping subtags are derived from other
standards. Under the newer stability policies, old assigned codes that
have been withdrawn from ISO 3166-1 should no longer be reassigned to
another country or territory (as has occurred in the past for "CS").
Decoding table
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The following is a colour-coded decoding table of all ISO 3166-1
alpha-2 codes.
Decoding table of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes title="user-assigned"
title="unassigned"
title="exceptionally reserved: Ascension Island"
title="Andorra" title="United
Arab Emirates" title="Afghanistan"
title="Antigua and Barbuda"
title="unassigned"
title="Anguilla (formerly: French Afars and Issas)"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Albania"
title="Armenia"
title="transitionally reserved: Netherlands Antilles" title="Angola"
title="indeterminately reserved: African Regional Industrial Property
Organization" title="Antarctica"
title="Argentina"
title="American Samoa"
title="Austria"
title="Australia"
title="unassigned" title="Aruba"
title="Åland Islands"
title="unassigned"
title="Azerbaijan" title="Bosnia
and Herzegovina" title="Barbados"
title="unassigned"
title="Bangladesh"
title="Belgium" title="Burkina
Faso" title="Bulgaria"
title="Bahrain"
title="Burundi" title="Benin"
title="unassigned" title="Saint
Barthélemy" title="Bermuda"
title="Brunei Darussalam"
title="Bolivia, Plurinational State of"
title="unassigned"
title="Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (formerly: British Antarctic
Territory)" title="Brazil"
title="Bahamas" title="Bhutan"
title="transitionally reserved: Burma" title="Bouvet
Island" title="Botswana"
title="indeterminately reserved: Benelux Trademarks and Designs
Office" title="Belarus"
title="Belize" title="Canada"
title="unassigned" title="Cocos
(Keeling) Islands" title="Congo, Democratic
Republic of the" title="unassigned"
title="Central African Republic" title="Congo"
title="Switzerland" title="Côte
d'Ivoire" title="unassigned"
title="Cook Islands" title="Chile"
title="Cameroon" title="China"
title="Colombia"
title="exceptionally reserved: Clipperton Island"
title="exceptionally reserved: Island of Sark" title="Costa
Rica" title="transitionally
reserved: Serbia and Montenegro (formerly: Czechoslovakia)"
title="deleted: Canton and Enderbury Islands; unassigned"
title="Cuba" title="Cabo
Verde" title="Curaçao"
title="Christmas Island" title="Cyprus"
title="Czechia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="deleted: German Democratic Republic; unassigned"
title="Germany"
title="unassigned"
title="exceptionally reserved: Diego Garcia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Djibouti"
title="Denmark"
title="unassigned"
title="Dominica"
title="unassigned"
title="Dominican Republic"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Benin"
title="Algeria"
title="exceptionally reserved: Ceuta, Melilla"
title="unassigned"
title="Ecuador"
title="unassigned"
title="Estonia"
title="indeterminately reserved: Union of Countries under the European
Community Patent Convention" title="Egypt"
title="Western Sahara"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: European Trademark Office"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: European Patent Organization"
title="unassigned"
title="Eritrea" title="Spain"
title="Ethiopia"
title="exceptionally reserved: European Union"
title="indeterminately reserved: Eurasian Patent Organization"
title="indeterminately reserved: Estonia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="exceptionally reserved: Eurozone"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Finland" title="Fiji"
title="Falkland Islands (Malvinas)"
title="indeterminately reserved: Liechtenstein"
title="Micronesia, Federated States of"
title="unassigned" title="Faroe
Islands" title="unassigned"
title="deleted: French Southern and Antarctic Territories; unassigned"
title="France"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="exceptionally reserved: France, Metropolitan"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Gabon"
title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
title="indeterminately reserved: Patent Office of the Cooperation
Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)" title="Grenada"
title="Georgia (formerly: Gilbert and Ellice Islands)" title="French
Guiana" title="Guernsey"
title="Ghana"
title="Gibraltar"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Greenland" title="Gambia"
title="Guinea"
title="unassigned"
title="Guadeloupe"
title="Equatorial Guinea" title="Greece"
title="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands"
title="Guatemala" title="Guam"
title="unassigned"
title="Guinea-Bissau"
title="unassigned" title="Guyana"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Hong
Kong" title="unassigned"
title="Heard Island and McDonald Islands"
title="Honduras"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Croatia"
title="unassigned" title="Haiti"
title="Hungary"
title="deleted: Upper Volta; unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: International Bureau of WIPO"
title="exceptionally reserved: Canary Islands"
title="Indonesia"
title="Ireland"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Israel"
title="Isle of Man" title="India"
title="British Indian Ocean Territory"
title="unassigned" title="Iraq"
title="Iran, Islamic Republic of"
title="Iceland" title="Italy"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Jamaica"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Jersey"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Jamaica"
title="unassigned" title="Jordan"
title="Japan"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="deleted: Johnston Island; unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Kenya"
title="unassigned"
title="Kyrgyzstan"
title="Cambodia"
title="Kiribati"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Comoros" title="Saint
Kitts and Nevis" title="unassigned"
title="Korea, Democratic People's Republic of"
title="unassigned" title="Korea,
Republic of" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Kuwait"
title="unassigned" title="Cayman
Islands" title="Kazakhstan"
title="Lao People's Democratic Republic"
title="Lebanon" title="Saint
Lucia" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Libya Fezzan"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Liechtenstein"
title="unassigned" title="Sri
Lanka" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Liberia"
title="Lesotho"
title="Lithuania (formerly: Libya Tripoli)"
title="Luxembourg" title="Latvia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Libya"
title="unassigned"
title="Morocco"
title="unassigned" title="Monaco"
title="Moldova, Republic of"
title="Montenegro (formerly: Western Sahara)" title="Saint
Martin (French part)" title="Madagascar"
title="Marshall Islands"
title="deleted: Midway Islands; unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="North
Macedonia" title="Mali"
title="Myanmar"
title="Mongolia" title="Macao"
title="Northern Mariana Islands"
title="Martinique"
title="Mauritania"
title="Montserrat" title="Malta"
title="Mauritius"
title="Maldives" title="Malawi"
title="Mexico"
title="Malaysia"
title="Mozambique"
title="Namibia"
title="unassigned" title="New
Caledonia" title="unassigned"
title="Niger" title="Norfolk
Island" title="Nigeria"
title="deleted: New Hebrides; unassigned"
title="Nicaragua"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Netherlands, Kingdom of the"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Norway"
title="Nepal"
title="deleted: Dronning Maud Land; unassigned" title="Nauru"
title="unassigned"
title="transitionally reserved: Neutral Zone" title="Niue"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="New
Zealand" title="indeterminately
reserved: African Intellectual Property Organization"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Oman"
title="unassigned" title="Escape
code" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Panama"
title="unassigned"
title="deleted: Pacific Islands (Trust Territory); unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Peru"
title="French Polynesia" title="Papua
New Guinea" title="Philippines"
title="indeterminately reserved: Philippines"
title="unassigned"
title="Pakistan" title="Poland"
title="Saint Pierre and Miquelon"
title="Pitcairn"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Puerto
Rico" title="Palestine, State of"
title="Portugal"
title="deleted: United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands;
unassigned" title="unassigned"
title="Palau"
title="unassigned"
title="Paraguay"
title="deleted: Panama Canal Zone; unassigned" title="Qatar"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Argentina"
title="indeterminately reserved: Bolivia; Botswana"
title="indeterminately reserved: China"
title="unassigned"
title="Réunion"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Haiti"
title="indeterminately reserved: Indonesia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Lebanon"
title="indeterminately reserved: Madagascar"
title="indeterminately reserved: Niger"
title="Romania"
title="indeterminately reserved: Philippines"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Serbia"
title="unassigned" title="Russian
Federation (formerly: Burundi)" title="unassigned"
title="Rwanda"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Saudi
Arabia" title="Solomon Islands"
title="Seychelles" title="Sudan"
title="Sweden"
title="indeterminately reserved: Finland"
title="Singapore" title="Saint
Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha" title="Slovenia"
title="Svalbard and Jan Mayen"
title="Slovakia (formerly: Sikkim)" title="Sierra
Leone" title="San Marino"
title="Senegal"
title="Somalia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Suriname" title="South
Sudan" title="Sao Tome and
Principe" title="exceptionally reserved: USSR"
title="El Salvador"
title="unassigned" title="Sint
Maarten (Dutch part)" title="Syrian Arab
Republic" title="Eswatini"
title="exceptionally reserved: Tristan da Cunha"
title="unassigned" title="Turks
and Caicos Islands" title="Chad"
title="unassigned" title="French
Southern Territories" title="Togo"
title="Thailand"
title="unassigned"
title="Tajikistan"
title="Tokelau"
title="Timor-Leste"
title="Turkmenistan"
title="Tunisia" title="Tonga"
title="transitionally reserved: East Timor"
title="unassigned"
title="Türkiye"
title="unassigned"
title="Trinidad and Tobago"
title="unassigned" title="Tuvalu"
title="Taiwan, Province of China" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Tanzania, United Republic of"
title="Ukraine"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Uganda"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="exceptionally reserved: United Kingdom"
title="unassigned" title="United
States Minor Outlying Islands" title="exceptionally
reserved: United Nations" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="United
States of America" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Uruguay"
title="Uzbekistan" title="Holy
See" title="unassigned"
title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines"
title="deleted: Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of; unassigned"
title="Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of"
title="unassigned" title="Virgin
Islands (British)" title="unassigned"
title="Virgin Islands (U.S.)"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Viet
Nam" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Vanuatu"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Wallis
and Futuna" title="indeterminately
reserved: Grenada" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="deleted: Wake Island; unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Saint Lucia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: World Intellectual Property
Organization" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Samoa"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="indeterminately reserved: Saint Vincent"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="user-assigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="deleted: Yemen, Democratic; unassigned" title="Yemen"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Mayotte"
title="transitionally reserved: Yugoslavia"
title="indeterminately reserved: Venezuela"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="South
Africa" title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned" title="Zambia"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="transitionally reserved: Zaire"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="Zimbabwe"
title="unassigned"
title="unassigned"
title="user-assigned"
Colour legend {{active} 242
| Officially assigned: assigned to a country, territory, or area of
geographical interest
|-
| 7
| Officially assigned: formerly either assigned to a different entity
or reserved indeterminately, then deleted and later reassigned as
above
|-
| 43
| User-assigned: free for assignment at the disposal of users
|-
| 13
| Exceptionally reserved: reserved on request for restricted use
|-
| 30
| Indeterminately reserved: used in coding systems associated with ISO
3166-1
|-
| 7
| Transitionally reserved: deleted from ISO 3166-1 but reserved
transitionally
|-
| 14
| Deleted: deleted and free for reassignment
|-
| 320
| Unassigned: free for assignment by the ISO 3166/MA only
|}
| **676**
| **Overall total**
Officially assigned code elements
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The following is a complete list of the 249 current officially
assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, with the following columns:
* Code: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, pointing to its ISO 3166-2 article
* Country name: English short name officially used by the ISO 3166
Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA)
* Year: Year when alpha-2 code was first officially assigned (1974,
first edition of ISO 3166)
* ccTLD: Corresponding country code top-level domain (some are
inactive); exceptions where another ccTLD is assigned for the country
are shown in parentheses
* Notes: Any unofficial notes
Code Country name (using title case) Year ccTLD Notes
id="AD" | ISO 3166-2:AD Andorra 1974 .ad
id="AE" | ISO 3166-2:AE United Arab Emirates 1974 .ae
id="AF" | ISO 3166-2:AF Afghanistan 1974 .af
id="AG" | ISO 3166-2:AG Antigua and Barbuda 1974 .ag
id="AI" | ISO 3166-2:AI Anguilla 1985 .ai previously
represented French Afars and Issas
id="AL" | ISO 3166-2:AL Albania 1974 .al
id="AM" | ISO 3166-2:AM Armenia 1992 .am
id="AO" | ISO 3166-2:AO Angola 1974 .ao
id="AQ" | ISO 3166-2:AQ Antarctica 1974 .aq Covers the
territories south of 60° south latitude Code taken from name in
French: '
id="AR" | ISO 3166-2:AR Argentina 1974 .ar
id="AS" | ISO 3166-2:AS American Samoa 1974 .as
id="AT" | ISO 3166-2:AT Austria 1974 .at
id="AU" | ISO 3166-2:AU Australia 1974 .au Includes the
Ashmore and Cartier Islands and the Coral Sea Islands
id="AW" | ISO 3166-2:AW Aruba 1986 .aw
id="AX" | ISO 3166-2:AX 2004 .ax An autonomous county of
Finland
id="AZ" | ISO 3166-2:AZ Azerbaijan 1992 .az
id="BA" | ISO 3166-2:BA Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992 .ba
id="BB" | ISO 3166-2:BB Barbados 1974 .bb
id="BD" | ISO 3166-2:BD Bangladesh 1974 .bd
id="BE" | ISO 3166-2:BE Belgium 1974 .be
id="BF" | ISO 3166-2:BF Burkina Faso 1984 .bf Name changed
from 'Upper Volta' ()
id="BG" | ISO 3166-2:BG Bulgaria 1974 .bg
id="BH" | ISO 3166-2:BH Bahrain 1974 .bh
id="BI" | ISO 3166-2:BI Burundi 1974 .bi
id="BJ" | ISO 3166-2:BJ Benin 1977 .bj Name changed from
'Dahomey' ()
id="BL" | ISO 3166-2:BL Saint Barthélemy 2007 .bl
id="BM" | ISO 3166-2:BM Bermuda 1974 .bm
id="BN" | ISO 3166-2:BN Brunei Darussalam 1974 .bn Previous
ISO country name: 'Brunei'
id="BO" | ISO 3166-2:BO Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1974
.bo Previous ISO country name: 'Bolivia'
id="BQ" | ISO 3166-2:BQ Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 2010
.bq Consists of three Caribbean "special municipalities", which are
part of the Netherlands proper: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba (the
BES Islands) Previous ISO country name: 'Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and
Saba' previously represented British Antarctic Territory
id="BR" | ISO 3166-2:BR Brazil 1974 .br
id="BS" | ISO 3166-2:BS Bahamas 1974 .bs
id="BT" | ISO 3166-2:BT Bhutan 1974 .bt
id="BV" | ISO 3166-2:BV Bouvet Island 1974 .bv Dependency of
Norway
id="BW" | ISO 3166-2:BW Botswana 1974 .bw
id="BY" | ISO 3166-2:BY Belarus 1974 .by Code taken from
previous ISO country name: 'Byelorussian SSR' (now assigned ISO 3166-3
code ISO 3166-3#BYAA) Code assigned as the country was already a UN
member since 1945
id="BZ" | ISO 3166-2:BZ Belize 1974 .bz
id="CA" | ISO 3166-2:CA Canada 1974 .ca
id="CC" | ISO 3166-2:CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1974 .cc
External territory of Australia
id="CD" | ISO 3166-2:CD Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1997
.cd Name changed from 'Zaire' ()
id="CF" | ISO 3166-2:CF Central African Republic 1974 .cf
id="CG" | ISO 3166-2:CG Congo 1974 .cg
id="CH" | ISO 3166-2:CH Switzerland 1974 .ch Code taken from
name in Latin: '
id="CI" | ISO 3166-2:CI 1974 .ci ISO country name follows UN
designation (common name and previous ISO country name: 'Ivory Coast')
id="CK" | ISO 3166-2:CK Cook Islands 1974 .ck
id="CL" | ISO 3166-2:CL Chile 1974 .cl
id="CM" | ISO 3166-2:CM Cameroon 1974 .cm Previous ISO
country name: 'Cameroon, United Republic of'
id="CN" | ISO 3166-2:CN China 1974 .cn
id="CO" | ISO 3166-2:CO Colombia 1974 .co
id="CR" | ISO 3166-2:CR Costa Rica 1974 .cr
id="CU" | ISO 3166-2:CU Cuba 1974 .cu
id="CV" | ISO 3166-2:CV Cabo Verde 1974 .cv ISO country name
follows UN designation (common name and previous ISO country name:
'Cape Verde', another previous ISO country name: 'Cape Verde Islands')
id="CW" | ISO 3166-2:CW Curaçao 2010 .cw
id="CX" | ISO 3166-2:CX Christmas Island 1974 .cx External
territory of Australia
id="CY" | ISO 3166-2:CY Cyprus 1974 .cy
id="CZ" | ISO 3166-2:CZ Czechia 1993 .cz Previous ISO country
name: 'Czech Republic'
id="DE" | ISO 3166-2:DE Germany 1974 .de Code taken from name
in German: ' Code used for West Germany before 1990 (previous ISO
country name: 'Germany, Federal Republic of')
id="DJ" | ISO 3166-2:DJ Djibouti 1977 .dj Name changed from
'French Afars and Issas' ()
id="DK" | ISO 3166-2:DK Denmark 1974 .dk
id="DM" | ISO 3166-2:DM Dominica 1974 .dm
id="DO" | ISO 3166-2:DO Dominican Republic 1974 .do
id="DZ" | ISO 3166-2:DZ Algeria 1974 .dz Code taken from name
in Arabic الجزائر 'al-Djazā'ir', Algerian Arabic الدزاير 'al-Dzāyīr',
or Berber ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ 'Dzayer'
id="EC" | ISO 3166-2:EC Ecuador 1974 .ec
id="EE" | ISO 3166-2:EE Estonia 1992 .ee Code taken from name
in Estonian: '
id="EG" | ISO 3166-2:EG Egypt 1974 .eg
id="EH" | ISO 3166-2:EH Western Sahara 1974 Previous ISO
country name: 'Spanish Sahara' (code taken from name in Spanish: ')
ccTLD has not been implemented.
id="ER" | ISO 3166-2:ER Eritrea 1993 .er
id="ES" | ISO 3166-2:ES Spain 1974 .es Code taken from name
in Spanish: '
id="ET" | ISO 3166-2:ET Ethiopia 1974 .et
id="FI" | ISO 3166-2:FI Finland 1974 .fi
id="FJ" | ISO 3166-2:FJ Fiji 1974 .fj
id="FK" | ISO 3166-2:FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 1974 .fk
ISO country name follows UN designation due to the Falkland Islands
sovereignty dispute (local common name: 'Falkland Islands')
id="FM" | ISO 3166-2:FM Micronesia, Federated States of 1986
.fm Previous ISO country name: 'Micronesia'
id="FO" | ISO 3166-2:FO Faroe Islands 1974 .fo Code taken
from name in Faroese: 'Føroyar'
id="FR" | ISO 3166-2:FR France 1974 .fr Includes Clipperton
Island
id="GA" | ISO 3166-2:GA Gabon 1974 .ga
id="GB" | ISO 3166-2:GB United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland 1974 .gb (.uk) Includes Akrotiri and Dhekelia
(Sovereign Base Areas) Code taken from 'Great Britain' (from official
name: 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland') Previous
ISO country name: 'United Kingdom' .uk is the primary ccTLD of the
United Kingdom instead of .gb (see code #UK, which is exceptionally
reserved)
id="GD" | ISO 3166-2:GD Grenada 1974 .gd
id="GE" | ISO 3166-2:GE Georgia 1992 .ge previously
represented Gilbert and Ellice Islands
id="GF" | ISO 3166-2:GF French Guiana 1974 .gf Code taken
from name in French: '
id="GG" | ISO 3166-2:GG Guernsey 2006 .gg A British Crown
Dependency
id="GH" | ISO 3166-2:GH Ghana 1974 .gh
id="GI" | ISO 3166-2:GI Gibraltar 1974 .gi
id="GL" | ISO 3166-2:GL Greenland 1974 .gl
id="GM" | ISO 3166-2:GM Gambia 1974 .gm
id="GN" | ISO 3166-2:GN Guinea 1974 .gn
id="GP" | ISO 3166-2:GP Guadeloupe 1974 .gp
id="GQ" | ISO 3166-2:GQ Equatorial Guinea 1974 .gq Code taken
from name in French: '
id="GR" | ISO 3166-2:GR Greece 1974 .gr
id="GS" | ISO 3166-2:GS South Georgia and the South Sandwich
Islands 1993 .gs
id="GT" | ISO 3166-2:GT Guatemala 1974 .gt
id="GU" | ISO 3166-2:GU Guam 1974 .gu
id="GW" | ISO 3166-2:GW Guinea-Bissau 1974 .gw
id="GY" | ISO 3166-2:GY Guyana 1974 .gy
id="HK" | ISO 3166-2:HK Hong Kong 1974 .hk Hong Kong is
officially a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of
China since 1 July 1997
id="HM" | ISO 3166-2:HM Heard Island and McDonald Islands 1974
.hm External territory of Australia
id="HN" | ISO 3166-2:HN Honduras 1974 .hn
id="HR" | ISO 3166-2:HR Croatia 1992 .hr Code taken from name
in Croatian: '
id="HT" | ISO 3166-2:HT Haiti 1974 .ht
id="HU" | ISO 3166-2:HU Hungary 1974 .hu
id="ID" | ISO 3166-2:ID Indonesia 1974 .id
id="IE" | ISO 3166-2:IE Ireland 1974 .ie
id="IL" | ISO 3166-2:IL Israel 1974 .il
id="IM" | ISO 3166-2:IM Isle of Man 2006 .im A British Crown
Dependency
id="IN" | ISO 3166-2:IN India 1974 .in
id="IO" | ISO 3166-2:IO British Indian Ocean Territory 1974 .io
id="IQ" | ISO 3166-2:IQ Iraq 1974 .iq
id="IR" | ISO 3166-2:IR Iran, Islamic Republic of 1974 .ir
Previous ISO country name: 'Iran'
id="IS" | ISO 3166-2:IS Iceland 1974 .is Code taken from name
in Icelandic: '
id="IT" | ISO 3166-2:IT Italy 1974 .it
id="JE" | ISO 3166-2:JE Jersey 2006 .je A British Crown
Dependency
id="JM" | ISO 3166-2:JM Jamaica 1974 .jm
id="JO" | ISO 3166-2:JO Jordan 1974 .jo
id="JP" | ISO 3166-2:JP Japan 1974 .jp
id="KE" | ISO 3166-2:KE Kenya 1974 .ke
id="KG" | ISO 3166-2:KG Kyrgyzstan 1992 .kg
id="KH" | ISO 3166-2:KH Cambodia 1974 .kh Code taken from
former name: 'Khmer Republic' Previous ISO country name: 'Kampuchea,
Democratic'
id="KI" | ISO 3166-2:KI Kiribati 1979 .ki Name changed from
'Gilbert Islands' ()
id="KM" | ISO 3166-2:KM Comoros 1974 .km Code taken from name
in Comorian: ' Previous ISO country name: 'Comoro Islands'
id="KN" | ISO 3166-2:KN Saint Kitts and Nevis 1974 .kn
Previous ISO country name: 'Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla'
id="KP" | ISO 3166-2:KP Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
1974 .kp ISO country name follows UN designation (common name:
'North Korea')
id="KR" | ISO 3166-2:KR Korea, Republic of 1974 .kr ISO
country name follows UN designation (common name: 'South Korea')
id="KW" | ISO 3166-2:KW Kuwait 1974 .kw
id="KY" | ISO 3166-2:KY Cayman Islands 1974 .ky
id="KZ" | ISO 3166-2:KZ Kazakhstan 1992 .kz Previous ISO
country name: '
id="LA" | ISO 3166-2:LA Lao People's Democratic Republic 1974
.la ISO country name follows UN designation (common name and
previous ISO country name: 'Laos')
id="LB" | ISO 3166-2:LB Lebanon 1974 .lb
id="LC" | ISO 3166-2:LC Saint Lucia 1974 .lc
id="LI" | ISO 3166-2:LI Liechtenstein 1974 .li
id="LK" | ISO 3166-2:LK Sri Lanka 1974 .lk
id="LR" | ISO 3166-2:LR Liberia 1974 .lr
id="LS" | ISO 3166-2:LS Lesotho 1974 .ls
id="LT" | ISO 3166-2:LT Lithuania 1992 .lt LT formerly
reserved indeterminately for Libya Tripoli
id="LU" | ISO 3166-2:LU Luxembourg 1974 .lu
id="LV" | ISO 3166-2:LV Latvia 1992 .lv
id="LY" | ISO 3166-2:LY Libya 1974 .ly Previous ISO country
name: 'Libyan Arab Jamahiriya'
id="MA" | ISO 3166-2:MA Morocco 1974 .ma Code taken from name
in French: '
id="MC" | ISO 3166-2:MC Monaco 1974 .mc
id="MD" | ISO 3166-2:MD Moldova, Republic of 1992 .md
Previous ISO country name: 'Moldova' (briefly from 2008 to 2009)
id="ME" | ISO 3166-2:ME Montenegro 2006 .me ME formerly
reserved indeterminately for Western Sahara
id="MF" | ISO 3166-2:MF Saint Martin (French part) 2007 .mf
The Dutch part of Saint Martin island is assigned code #SX
id="MG" | ISO 3166-2:MG Madagascar 1974 .mg
id="MH" | ISO 3166-2:MH Marshall Islands 1986 .mh
id="MK" | ISO 3166-2:MK North Macedonia 1993 .mk Code taken
from name in Macedonian: ' Previous ISO country name: 'Macedonia, the
former Yugoslav Republic of' (designated as such due to Macedonia
naming dispute)
id="ML" | ISO 3166-2:ML Mali 1974 .ml
id="MM" | ISO 3166-2:MM Myanmar 1989 .mm Name changed from
'Burma' ()
id="MN" | ISO 3166-2:MN Mongolia 1974 .mn
id="MO" | ISO 3166-2:MO Macao 1974 .mo Previous ISO country
name: 'Macau'; Macao is officially a Special Administrative Region of
the People's Republic of China since 20 December 1999
id="MP" | ISO 3166-2:MP Northern Mariana Islands 1986 .mp
id="MQ" | ISO 3166-2:MQ Martinique 1974 .mq
id="MR" | ISO 3166-2:MR Mauritania 1974 .mr
id="MS" | ISO 3166-2:MS Montserrat 1974 .ms
id="MT" | ISO 3166-2:MT Malta 1974 .mt
id="MU" | ISO 3166-2:MU Mauritius 1974 .mu
id="MV" | ISO 3166-2:MV Maldives 1974 .mv
id="MW" | ISO 3166-2:MW Malawi 1974 .mw
id="MX" | ISO 3166-2:MX Mexico 1974 .mx
id="MY" | ISO 3166-2:MY Malaysia 1974 .my
id="MZ" | ISO 3166-2:MZ Mozambique 1974 .mz
id="NA" | ISO 3166-2:NA Namibia 1974 .na
id="NC" | ISO 3166-2:NC New Caledonia 1974 .nc
id="NE" | ISO 3166-2:NE Niger 1974 .ne
id="NF" | ISO 3166-2:NF Norfolk Island 1974 .nf External
territory of Australia
id="NG" | ISO 3166-2:NG Nigeria 1974 .ng
id="NI" | ISO 3166-2:NI Nicaragua 1974 .ni
id="NL" | ISO 3166-2:NL Netherlands, Kingdom of the 1974 .nl
Officially includes the islands Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba,
which also have code BQ in ISO 3166-1. Within ISO 3166-2, Aruba (AW),
Curaçao (CW), and Sint Maarten (SX) are also coded as subdivisions of
NL. Previous ISO country name: 'Netherlands'
id="NO" | ISO 3166-2:NO Norway 1974 .no
id="NP" | ISO 3166-2:NP Nepal 1974 .np
id="NR" | ISO 3166-2:NR Nauru 1974 .nr
id="NU" | ISO 3166-2:NU Niue 1974 .nu Previous ISO country
name: 'Niue Island'
id="NZ" | ISO 3166-2:NZ New Zealand 1974 .nz
id="OM" | ISO 3166-2:OM Oman 1974 .om
id="PA" | ISO 3166-2:PA Panama 1974 .pa
id="PE" | ISO 3166-2:PE Peru 1974 .pe
id="PF" | ISO 3166-2:PF French Polynesia 1974 .pf Code taken
from name in French: '
id="PG" | ISO 3166-2:PG Papua New Guinea 1974 .pg
id="PH" | ISO 3166-2:PH Philippines 1974 .ph
id="PK" | ISO 3166-2:PK Pakistan 1974 .pk
id="PL" | ISO 3166-2:PL Poland 1974 .pl
id="PM" | ISO 3166-2:PM Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1974 .pm
id="PN" | ISO 3166-2:PN Pitcairn 1974 .pn Previous ISO
country name: 'Pitcairn Islands'
id="PR" | ISO 3166-2:PR Puerto Rico 1974 .pr
id="PS" | ISO 3166-2:PS 1999 .ps Previous ISO country name:
'Palestinian Territory, Occupied' Consists of the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip
id="PT" | ISO 3166-2:PT Portugal 1974 .pt
id="PW" | ISO 3166-2:PW Palau 1986 .pw
id="PY" | ISO 3166-2:PY Paraguay 1974 .py
id="QA" | ISO 3166-2:QA Qatar 1974 .qa
id="RE" | ISO 3166-2:RE 1974 .re
id="RO" | ISO 3166-2:RO Romania 1974 .ro
id="RS" | ISO 3166-2:RS Serbia 2006 .rs Republic of Serbia
id="RU" | ISO 3166-2:RU Russian Federation 1992 .ru ISO
country name follows UN designation (common name: 'Russia'); RU
formerly reserved indeterminately for Burundi
id="RW" | ISO 3166-2:RW Rwanda 1974 .rw
id="SA" | ISO 3166-2:SA Saudi Arabia 1974 .sa
id="SB" | ISO 3166-2:SB Solomon Islands 1974 .sb Code taken
from former name: 'British Solomon Islands'
id="SC" | ISO 3166-2:SC Seychelles 1974 .sc
id="SD" | ISO 3166-2:SD Sudan 1974 .sd
id="SE" | ISO 3166-2:SE Sweden 1974 .se
id="SG" | ISO 3166-2:SG Singapore 1974 .sg
id="SH" | ISO 3166-2:SH Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da
Cunha 1974 .sh Previous ISO country name: 'Saint Helena.'
id="SI" | ISO 3166-2:SI Slovenia 1992 .si
id="SJ" | ISO 3166-2:SJ Svalbard and Jan Mayen 1974 .sj
Previous ISO name: 'Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands' Consists of two
Arctic territories of Norway: Svalbard and Jan Mayen
id="SK" | ISO 3166-2:SK Slovakia 1993 .sk previously
represented the Kingdom of Sikkim
id="SL" | ISO 3166-2:SL Sierra Leone 1974 .sl
id="SM" | ISO 3166-2:SM San Marino 1974 .sm
id="SN" | ISO 3166-2:SN Senegal 1974 .sn
id="SO" | ISO 3166-2:SO Somalia 1974 .so
id="SR" | ISO 3166-2:SR Suriname 1974 .sr Previous ISO
country name: 'Surinam'
id="SS" | ISO 3166-2:SS South Sudan 2011 .ss
id="ST" | ISO 3166-2:ST São Tomé and Príncipe 1974 .st
id="SV" | ISO 3166-2:SV El Salvador 1974 .sv
id="SX" | ISO 3166-2:SX Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 2010 .sx
The French part of Saint Martin island is assigned code #MF
id="SY" | ISO 3166-2:SY Syrian Arab Republic 1974 .sy ISO
country name follows UN designation (common name and previous ISO
country name: 'Syria')
id="SZ" | ISO 3166-2:SZ Eswatini 1974 .sz Previous ISO
country name: 'Swaziland'
id="TC" | ISO 3166-2:TC Turks and Caicos Islands 1974 .tc
id="TD" | ISO 3166-2:TD Chad 1974 .td Code taken from name in
French: '
id="TF" | ISO 3166-2:TF French Southern Territories 1979 .tf
Covers the French Southern and Antarctic Lands except Adélie Land
Code taken from name in French: '
id="TG" | ISO 3166-2:TG Togo 1974 .tg
id="TH" | ISO 3166-2:TH Thailand 1974 .th
id="TJ" | ISO 3166-2:TJ Tajikistan 1992 .tj
id="TK" | ISO 3166-2:TK Tokelau 1974 .tk Previous ISO country
name: 'Tokelau Islands'
id="TL" | ISO 3166-2:TL Timor-Leste 2002 .tl Name changed
from 'East Timor' ()
id="TM" | ISO 3166-2:TM Turkmenistan 1992 .tm
id="TN" | ISO 3166-2:TN Tunisia 1974 .tn
id="TO" | ISO 3166-2:TO Tonga 1974 .to
id="TR" | ISO 3166-2:TR Türkiye 1974 .tr Previous ISO country
name: 'Turkey'
id="TT" | ISO 3166-2:TT Trinidad and Tobago 1974 .tt
id="TV" | ISO 3166-2:TV Tuvalu 1977 .tv
id="TW" | ISO 3166-2:TW Taiwan, Province of China 1974 .tw
Covers the current jurisdiction of the Republic of China ISO country
name follows UN designation (due to political status of Taiwan within
the UN) (common name: 'Taiwan')
id="TZ" | ISO 3166-2:TZ Tanzania, United Republic of 1974 .tz
id="UA" | ISO 3166-2:UA Ukraine 1974 .ua Previous ISO country
name: 'Ukrainian SSR' Code assigned as the country was already a UN
member since 1945
id="UG" | ISO 3166-2:UG Uganda 1974 .ug
id="UM" | ISO 3166-2:UM United States Minor Outlying Islands 1986
Consists of nine minor insular areas of the United States: Baker
Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef,
Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island ccTLD
was revoked in 2007 The United States Department of State uses the
following user assigned alpha-2 codes for the nine territories,
respectively, XB, XH, XQ, XU, XM, QM, XV, XL, and QW.
id="US" | ISO 3166-2:US United States of America 1974 .us
Previous ISO country name: 'United States'
id="UY" | ISO 3166-2:UY Uruguay 1974 .uy
id="UZ" | ISO 3166-2:UZ Uzbekistan 1992 .uz
id="VA" | ISO 3166-2:VA Holy See 1974 .va Covers Vatican
City, territory of the Holy See Previous ISO country names: 'Vatican
City State (Holy See)' and 'Holy See (Vatican City State)'
id="VC" | ISO 3166-2:VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1974
.vc
id="VE" | ISO 3166-2:VE Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1974
.ve Previous ISO country name: 'Venezuela'
id="VG" | ISO 3166-2:VG Virgin Islands (British) 1974 .vg
id="VI" | ISO 3166-2:VI Virgin Islands (U.S.) 1974 .vi
id="VN" | ISO 3166-2:VN Viet Nam 1974 .vn ISO country name
follows UN designation (common name: 'Vietnam') Code used for Republic
of Viet Nam (common name: 'South Vietnam') before 1977
id="VU" | ISO 3166-2:VU Vanuatu 1980 .vu Name changed from
'New Hebrides' ()
id="WF" | ISO 3166-2:WF Wallis and Futuna 1974 .wf Previous
ISO country name: 'Wallis and Futuna Islands'
id="WS" | ISO 3166-2:WS Samoa 1974 .ws Code taken from former
name: 'Western Samoa'
id="YE" | ISO 3166-2:YE Yemen 1974 .ye Previous ISO country
name: 'Yemen, Republic of' (for three years after the unification)
Code used for North Yemen before 1990
id="YT" | ISO 3166-2:YT Mayotte 1993 .yt
id="ZA" | ISO 3166-2:ZA South Africa 1974 .za Code taken from
name in Dutch: '
id="ZM" | ISO 3166-2:ZM Zambia 1974 .zm
id="ZW" | ISO 3166-2:ZW Zimbabwe 1980 .zw Name changed from
'Southern Rhodesia' ()
User-assigned code elements
=============================
User-assigned code elements are codes at the disposal of users who
need to add further names of countries, territories, or other
geographical entities to their in-house application of ISO 3166-1, and
the ISO 3166/MA will never use these codes in the updating process of
the standard. The following alpha-2 codes can be user-assigned: , to
, to , and . For example:
* The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) uses as a second
country code for the United States, as it ran out of three-character
registrant codes within the prefix. It also uses for some
registrants assigned directly.
* The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) assigns to
represent Outlying Oceania (a multi-territory region containing
Antarctica, Bouvet Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas
Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Heard Island and
McDonald Islands, the British Indian Ocean Territory, the French
Southern Territories, and the United States Minor Outlying Islands),
and to represent "Unknown or Invalid Territory". Before the adoption
of the macroregion code by ISO, CLDR also used to represent the
European Union.
* The code is being used by the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) as an indicator for the Community Plant Variety
Office.
* The code is being used by Switzerland as a country code for the
Canary Islands, although is already reserved for that purpose.
* The codes and are being used by Russia to represent Abkhazia and
South Ossetia respectively.
* The code is being used by the UK Government, as an EORI number
country code prefix for Northern Ireland, and the members of European
union for European Union value added tax reports with trade with
Northern Ireland.
* The code is being used by the European Commission the IMF, and
SWIFT, the CLDR, and other organizations as a temporary country code
for Kosovo.
* The code is being used by WIPO as an indicator for the Nordic
Patent Institute, an international organization common to Denmark,
Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
* The code is being used by WIPO as an indicator for the
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants.
* The code is being used by WIPO as an indicator for the Visegrad
Patent Institute.
* The code is being used by WIPO as an indicator for unknown states,
other entities or organizations.
* UN/LOCODE assigns to represent installations in international
waters.
Furthermore, the code element is designated as an escape code if the
number of regular user-assigned code elements is not sufficient.
Reserved code elements
========================
Reserved code elements are codes which have become obsolete, or are
required in order to enable a particular user application of the
standard but do not qualify for inclusion in ISO 3166-1. To avoid
transitional application problems and to aid users who require
specific additional code elements for the functioning of their coding
systems, the ISO 3166/MA, when justified, reserves these codes which
it undertakes not to use for other than specified purposes during a
limited or indeterminate period of time. The reserved alpha-2 codes
can be divided into the following four categories: exceptional
reservations, transitional reservations, indeterminate reservations,
and codes currently agreed not to use.
Exceptional reservations
==========================
Exceptionally reserved code elements are codes reserved at the request
of national ISO member bodies, governments and international
organizations, which are required in order to support a particular
application, as specified by the requesting body and limited to such
use; any further use of such code elements is subject to approval by
the ISO 3166/MA. The following alpha-2 codes are currently
exceptionally reserved:
Code Area name or country name Current actual country ccTLD Notes
id="AC" | Ascension Island United Kingdom .ac Reserved on
request of UPU for stamp issuing area
id="CP" | Clipperton Island France — Reserved on request of
ITU for location of certain telecommunications installations
id="CQ" | Island of Sark United Kingdom — Reserved on
request of the United Kingdom. Letters are derived from French name
'Sercq'.
id="DG" | Diego Garcia United Kingdom — Reserved on request
of ITU for location of certain telecommunications installations
id="EA" | Ceuta, Melilla Spain — Reserved on request of WCO
for area not covered by European Union Customs arrangements Part of
Spanish North Africa (Spanish: )
id="EU" | European Union multiple .eu Reserved on request of
ISO 4217/MA for the European monetary unit Euro Extended for ISO 6166
"Securities – International securities identification numbering system
(ISIN)" in March 1998 Extended for any application needing to
represent the name European Union in August 1999
id="EZ" | Eurozone multiple — Reserved on request of ISO
6166/RA for the European OTC derivatives within International
securities identification numbering system (ISIN)
id="FX" | France, Metropolitan France — Reserved on request
of France Officially assigned before deleted from ISO 3166-1 (now
assigned ISO 3166-3 code ISO 3166-3#FXFR)
id="IC" | Canary Islands Spain — Reserved on request of WCO
for area not covered by European Union Customs arrangements. Code
taken from name in Spanish: '
id="SU" | USSR multiple .su From June 2008; Transitionally
reserved from September 1992 Officially assigned before deleted from
ISO 3166-1 (now assigned ISO 3166-3 code ISO 3166-3#SUHH) Official
name and previous ISO country name: 'Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics' (common name: 'Soviet Union')
id="TA" | Tristan da Cunha United Kingdom — Reserved on
request of UPU for stamp issuing area
id="UK" | United Kingdom United Kingdom .uk Reserved on
request of the United Kingdom lest be used for any other country
Also used by the European Commission United Kingdom is officially
assigned the alpha-2 code
id="UN" | United Nations multiple — Reserved directly by ISO
3166/MA for the United Nations
The following alpha-2 codes were previously exceptionally reserved,
but are now officially assigned:
Code Area name or country name Notes
Åland Islands Reserved on request of Finland
Guernsey Reserved on request of UPU for stamp issuing area
Isle of Man Reserved on request of UPU for stamp issuing area
Jersey Reserved on request of UPU for stamp issuing area
Transitional reservations
===========================
Transitional reserved code elements are codes reserved after their
deletion from ISO 3166-1. These codes may be used only during a
transitional period of at least five years while new code elements
that may have replaced them are taken into use. These codes may be
reassigned by the ISO 3166/MA after the expiration of the transitional
period. The following alpha-2 codes are currently transitionally
reserved:
Code Formerly used country name Reserved from Reserved to ccTLD
Notes
id="AN" | ISO 3166-2:AN Netherlands Antilles 2010-12 2060-12
ISO 3166-3#ANHH Divided into (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba),
(Curaçao) and (Dutch part of Sint Maarten)
id="BU" | Burma 1989-12 2039-12 — ISO 3166-3#BUMM Name
changed to Myanmar ()
id="CS" | ISO 3166-2:CS Originally Czechoslovakia, later Serbia and
Montenegro 2006-09 2056-09 ISO 3166-3#CSHH ISO 3166-3#CSXX
Code taken from name in Serbian: ', for Serbia and Montenegro, which
however is now divided into Montenegro () and Serbia (). (Though
reserved, the ccTLD .cs was never actually assigned to Serbia and
Montenegro; the ccTLD of Serbia and Montenegro was .yu, as that
formerly unified country's name, and that of its larger predecessor,
had previously been Yugoslavia.) originally represented
Czechoslovakia. Its successor state Czechia uses , and Slovakia .
id="NT" | Neutral Zone 1993-07 2043-07 — ISO 3166-3#NTHH
Divided between Iraq (IQ) and Saudi Arabia (SA)
id="TP" | ISO 3166-2:TP East Timor 2002-05 2052-05 .tp ISO
3166-3#TPTL Code taken from previous ISO country name: 'Portuguese
Timor', name changed to Timor-Leste ()
id="YU" | ISO 3166-2:YU Yugoslavia 2003-07 2053-07 .yu ISO
3166-3#YUCS Code used for the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia before 1992 and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after
1992
id="ZR" | Zaire 1997-07 2047-07 .zr ISO 3166-3#ZRCD Name
changed to Congo, the Democratic Republic of the ()
The following alpha-2 code was previously transitionally reserved, but
was later reassigned to another country as its official code:
Code Formerly used country name Date of reservation ccTLD Notes
Czechoslovakia 1993-06 .cs ISO 3166-3#CSHH Code reassigned
to Serbia and Montenegro
For each deleted alpha-2 code, an entry for the corresponding former
country name is included in ISO 3166-3. Each entry is assigned a
four-letter alphabetic code, where the first two letters are the
deleted alpha-2 code.
Indeterminate reservations
============================
Indeterminately reserved code elements are codes used to designate
road vehicles under the 1949 and 1968 United Nations Conventions on
Road Traffic but differing from those contained in ISO 3166-1. These
code elements are expected eventually to be either eliminated or
replaced by code elements within ISO 3166-1. In the meantime, the ISO
3166/MA has reserved such code elements for an indeterminate period.
Any use beyond the application of the two Conventions is discouraged
and will not be approved by the ISO 3166/MA. Moreover, these codes may
be reassigned by the ISO 3166/MA at any time. The following alpha-2
codes are currently indeterminately reserved:
Code elements reserved indeterminately
Code Area name or country name Current code Notes
id="DY" | Benin
id="EW" | Estonia
id="FL" | Liechtenstein
id="JA" | Jamaica
id="LF" | Libya Fezzan
id="PI" | Philippines
id="RA" | Argentina
id="RB" | Bolivia [cf. Botswana: identical code element]
Botswana [cf. Bolivia: identical code element]
id="RC" | China &
id="RH" | Haiti
id="RI" | Indonesia
id="RL" | Lebanon
id="RM" | Madagascar
id="RN" | Niger
id="RP" | Philippines
id="SF" | Finland
id="WG" | Grenada
id="WL" | Saint Lucia
id="WV" | Saint Vincent
id="YV" | Venezuela
The following alpha-2 codes were previously indeterminately reserved,
but have been reassigned to another country as its official code:
Code elements previously reserved indeterminately
Code Area name or country name Current code Notes Code reassigned to
Libya Tripoli Lithuania
Western Sahara Montenegro
Burundi Russian Federation
; Notes
Codes currently agreed not to use
===================================
In addition, the ISO 3166/MA will not use the following alpha-2 codes
at the present stage, as they are used for international intellectual
property organizations in WIPO Standard ST.3:
WIPO code elements not formally reserved
Code Organization name
id="AP" | African Regional Industrial Property Organization
(ARIPO)
id="BX" | Benelux Trademarks and Designs Office (BOIP)
id="EF" | Union of Countries under the European Community Patent
Convention
id="EM" | European Trademark Office (EUIPO)
id="EP" | European Patent Organization (EPOrg), i.e. union of
countries under the European Patent Convention (EPC)
id="EV" | Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)
id="GC" | Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab
States of the Gulf (GCCPO)
id="IB" | International Bureau of WIPO
id="OA" | African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)
id="WO" | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO Standard ST.3 actually uses , instead of , to represent the
Eurasian Patent Organization. However, was already exceptionally
reserved by the ISO 3166/MA to represent Ceuta and Melilla for customs
purposes. The ISO 3166/MA proposed in 1995 that be used by WIPO to
represent the Eurasian Patent Organization; however, this request was
not honoured by WIPO.
Deleted codes
======================================================================
Besides the codes currently transitionally reserved and two other
codes currently exceptionally reserved ( for France, Metropolitan and
for USSR), the following alpha-2 codes have also been deleted from ISO
3166-1:
Code Formerly used country name Notes
French Afars and Issas ISO 3166-3#AIDJ Code later reassigned
to Anguilla
British Antarctic Territory ISO 3166-3#BQAQ Code later
reassigned to Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Canton and Enderbury Islands ISO 3166-3#CTKI
German Democratic Republic ISO 3166-3#DDDE Code taken from
name in German: ' Common name: 'East Germany'
Dahomey ISO 3166-3#DYBJ Name changed to Benin () The code is
now indeterminately reserved.
French Southern and Antarctic Territories ISO 3166-3#FQHH See
and .
Gilbert Islands (initially Gilbert and Ellice Islands) ISO
3166-3#GEHH Code later reassigned to Georgia
Upper Volta ISO 3166-3#HVBF Code taken from name in French: '
Johnston Island ISO 3166-3#JTUM
Midway Islands ISO 3166-3#MIUM
New Hebrides ISO 3166-3#NHVU
Dronning Maud Land ISO 3166-3#NQAQ A dependent territory of
Norway
Pacific Islands (Trust Territory) ISO 3166-3#PCHH
United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands ISO 3166-3#PUUM
Consisted of Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman
Reef, and Palmyra Atoll
Panama Canal Zone ISO 3166-3#PZPA
Southern Rhodesia ISO 3166-3#RHZW Name used by country itself:
'Rhodesia' ('Southern Rhodesia' was the colonial name)
Sikkim ISO 3166-3#SKIN Code later reassigned to Slovakia
Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of ISO 3166-3#VDVN Common name:
'North Vietnam'
Wake Island ISO 3166-3#WKUM
Yemen, Democratic ISO 3166-3#YDYE Common name: 'South Yemen'
For each deleted alpha-2 code, an entry for the corresponding former
country name is included in ISO 3166-3. Each entry is assigned a
four-letter alphabetic code, where the first two letters are the
deleted alpha-2 code.
See also
======================================================================
* List of FIPS country codes in FIPS 10-4, part of the Federal
Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
* The Regional Indicator Symbol in Unicode, introduced to use these
codes
* ISO 639-1, a different set of two-letter codes used for languages
Sources and external links
======================================================================
* [
https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html ISO 3166
Maintenance Agency], International Organization for Standardization
(ISO)
** [
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search/code/ Online Browsing Platform
(OBP)] — searchable list of country codes
**
[
https://web.archive.org/web/20161122071627/http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_names_and_code_elements_txt-temp.htm
Text file (English, 2016)]
**
[
https://web.archive.org/web/20160804224459/http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_names_and_code_elements_xml-temp.htm
XML file (English, 2016)]
** 'Reserved code elements under ISO 3166-1 "Codes for the
representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1:
Country codes"', available on request from ISO 3166/MA
* 'The World Factbook' (public domain), Central Intelligence Agency
**
[
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/country-data-codes/
Appendix D – Country Data Codes] — comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166,
and STANAG 1059 country codes
* [
https://www.datahub.io/core/country-list List of all countries with
their 2 digit codes (ISO 3166-1) (CSV, JSON)]
** [
https://www.datahub.io/core/country-codes Comprehensive country
codes: ISO 3166, ITU, ISO 4217 currency codes and many more (CSV,
JSON)]
* [
http://www.statoids.com/ Administrative Divisions of Countries
("Statoids")], Statoids.com
** [
http://www.statoids.com/wab.html Country codes] — comparison of
ISO 3166-1 country codes with other country codes
** [
http://www.statoids.com/w3166his.html ISO 3166-1 Change History]
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