ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
Template:Short description ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-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 allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the two-letter alpha-2 codes (the third set of codes is numeric and hence offers no visual association).[1] They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its first edition in 1974.
Uses and applications
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are used most prominently in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports, as standardized by the International Civil Aviation Organization, with a number of additional codes for special passports; some of these codes are currently reserved and not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.[2]
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.[3]
Current codes
Officially assigned code elements
The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes,[4] using a title case version of the English short names officially defined by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):
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- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ABW Aruba
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AFG Afghanistan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AGO Angola
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AIA Anguilla
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ALA Åland Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ALB Albania
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AND Andorra
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ARE United Arab Emirates
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ARG Argentina
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ARM Armenia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ASM American Samoa
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ATA Antarctica
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ATF French Southern Territories
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ATG Antigua and Barbuda
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AUS Australia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AUT Austria
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AZE Azerbaijan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BDI Burundi
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BEL Belgium
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BEN Benin
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BES Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BFA Burkina Faso
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BGD Bangladesh
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BGR Bulgaria
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BHR Bahrain
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BHS Bahamas
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BLM Saint Barthélemy
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BLR Belarus
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BLZ Belize
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BMU Bermuda
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BOL Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BRA Brazil
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BRB Barbados
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BRN Brunei Darussalam
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BTN Bhutan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BVT Bouvet Island
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BWA Botswana
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CAF Central African Republic
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CAN Canada
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CCK Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CHE Switzerland
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CHL Chile
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CHN China
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CIV Côte d'Ivoire
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CMR Cameroon
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />COD Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />COG Congo
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />COK Cook Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />COL Colombia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />COM Comoros
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CPV Cabo Verde
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CRI Costa Rica
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CUB Cuba
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CUW Curaçao
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CXR Christmas Island
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CYM Cayman Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CYP Cyprus
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CZE Czechia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DEU Germany
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DJI Djibouti
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DMA Dominica
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DNK Denmark
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DOM Dominican Republic
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DZA Algeria
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ECU Ecuador
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EGY Egypt
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ERI Eritrea
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ESH Western Sahara
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ESP Spain
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EST Estonia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ETH Ethiopia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FIN Finland
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FJI Fiji
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FLK Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FRA France
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FRO Faroe Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FSM Micronesia, Federated States of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GAB Gabon
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBR United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GEO Georgia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GGY Guernsey
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GHA Ghana
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GIB Gibraltar
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GIN Guinea
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GLP Guadeloupe
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GMB Gambia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GNB Guinea-Bissau
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GNQ Equatorial Guinea
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GRC Greece
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GRD Grenada
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GRL Greenland
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GTM Guatemala
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GUF French Guiana
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GUM Guam
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GUY Guyana
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HKG Hong Kong
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HMD Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HND Honduras
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HRV Croatia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HTI Haiti
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HUN Hungary
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IDN Indonesia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IMN Isle of Man
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IND India
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IOT British Indian Ocean Territory
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IRL Ireland
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IRN Iran, Islamic Republic of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IRQ Iraq
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ISL Iceland
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ISR Israel
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ITA Italy
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JAM Jamaica
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JEY Jersey
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JOR Jordan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JPN Japan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KAZ Kazakhstan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KEN Kenya
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KGZ Kyrgyzstan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KHM Cambodia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KIR Kiribati
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KNA Saint Kitts and Nevis
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KOR Korea, Republic of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KWT Kuwait
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LAO Lao People's Democratic Republic
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LBN Lebanon
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LBR Liberia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LBY Libya
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LCA Saint Lucia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LIE Liechtenstein
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LKA Sri Lanka
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LSO Lesotho
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LTU Lithuania
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LUX Luxembourg
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />LVA Latvia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MAC Macao
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MAF Saint Martin (French part)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MAR Morocco
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MCO Monaco
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MDA Moldova, Republic of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MDG Madagascar
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MDV Maldives
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MEX Mexico
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MHL Marshall Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MKD North Macedonia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MLI Mali
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MLT Malta
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MMR Myanmar
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MNE Montenegro
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MNG Mongolia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MNP Northern Mariana Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MOZ Mozambique
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MRT Mauritania
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MSR Montserrat
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MTQ Martinique
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MUS Mauritius
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MWI Malawi
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MYS Malaysia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MYT Mayotte
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NAM Namibia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NCL New Caledonia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NER Niger
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NFK Norfolk Island
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NGA Nigeria
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NIC Nicaragua
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NIU Niue
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NLD Netherlands, Kingdom of the
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NOR Norway
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NPL Nepal
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NRU Nauru
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NZL New Zealand
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />OMN Oman
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PAK Pakistan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PAN Panama
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PCN Pitcairn
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PER Peru
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PHL Philippines
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PLW Palau
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PNG Papua New Guinea
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />POL Poland
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PRI Puerto Rico
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PRK Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PRT Portugal
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PRY Paraguay
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PSE Palestine, State of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PYF French Polynesia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />QAT Qatar
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />REU Réunion
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ROU Romania
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RUS Russian Federation
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RWA Rwanda
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SAU Saudi Arabia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SDN Sudan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SEN Senegal
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SGP Singapore
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SGS South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SHN Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SJM Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SLB Solomon Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SLE Sierra Leone
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SLV El Salvador
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SMR San Marino
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SOM Somalia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SPM Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SRB Serbia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SSD South Sudan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />STP Sao Tome and Principe
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SUR Suriname
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SVK Slovakia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SVN Slovenia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SWE Sweden
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SWZ Eswatini
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SXM Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SYC Seychelles
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SYR Syrian Arab Republic
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TCA Turks and Caicos Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TCD Chad
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TGO Togo
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />THA Thailand
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TJK Tajikistan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TKL Tokelau
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TKM Turkmenistan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TLS Timor-Leste
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TON Tonga
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TTO Trinidad and Tobago
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TUN Tunisia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TUR Türkiye
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TUV Tuvalu
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TWN Taiwan, Province of China
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TZA Tanzania, United Republic of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UGA Uganda
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UKR Ukraine
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />URY Uruguay
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />USA United States of America
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UZB Uzbekistan
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VAT Holy See
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VCT Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VEN Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VGB Virgin Islands (British)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VIR Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VNM Viet Nam
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VUT Vanuatu
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />WLF Wallis and Futuna
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />WSM Samoa
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />YEM Yemen
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZAF South Africa
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZMB Zambia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZWE Zimbabwe
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-3 codes can be user-assigned: <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AAA to <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AAZ, <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />QMA to <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />QZZ, <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XAA to <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XZZ, and <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZZA to <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZZZ.[5]
Examples
The following codes are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for special machine-readable passports:[2]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EUE is used for the European Union laissez-passer[6]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XOM is used to represent the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />D, a single character, is used for Germany.
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XPO is used for Interpol travel documents
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXA is used to represent a stateless person, as defined in Article 1 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXB is used to represent a refugee, as defined in Article 1 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as amended by the 1967 Protocol
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXC is used to represent a refugee, other than as defined above
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXX is used to represent a person of unspecified nationality
NATO STANAG 1059 INT is built upon ISO alpha-3 codes, but also defines alpha-2 codes incompatible with ISO 3166-1. It introduces several private use codes for fictional countries and organizational entities:
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- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXB "Brownland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXG "Greyland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXI "Indigoland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXL "Limeland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXP "Purpleland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXR "Redland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXW "Whiteland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXY "Yellowland"
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXE SHAPE
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXM NATO
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXN NATO "Blue" Command
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XXS SACLANT
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NATO also continues to use reserved codes for continents:
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- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ABB Asia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EEE Europe
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FFF Africa
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NNN North America
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SRR South America
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UUU Oceania
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NTT NATO countries
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<templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XKX is an ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 equivalent user-assigned code element for Kosovo in the European Union,[7] and <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />XKK is used in the Unicode standard.[8]
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-3 codes are divided into the following three categories: exceptional reservations, transitional reservations, and indeterminate reservations.[5]
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-3 codes are currently exceptionally reserved:
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ASC Ascension IslandTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of Universal Postal Union (UPU), also used by International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CPT Clipperton IslandTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of ITU
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CRQ SarkTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of the United Kingdom
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DGA Diego GarciaTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of ITU
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FXX France, MetropolitanTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of France; Officially assigned before being deleted from ISO 3166-1
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SUN USSRTemplate:Snd From June 2008; Transitionally reserved from September 1992; Officially assigned before being deleted from ISO 3166-1
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TAA Tristan da CunhaTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
The following alpha-3 codes were previously exceptionally reserved, but are now officially assigned:
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GGY GuernseyTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IMN Isle of ManTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JEY JerseyTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
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-3 codes are currently transitionally reserved:
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ANT Netherlands AntillesTemplate:Snd From December 2010
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BUR BurmaTemplate:Snd From December 1989
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BYS Byelorussian SSRTemplate:Snd From June 1992
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CSK CzechoslovakiaTemplate:Snd From June 1993
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NTZ Neutral ZoneTemplate:Snd From July 1993
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ROM RomaniaTemplate:Snd From February 2002; Code changed to <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ROU[9]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SCG Serbia and MontenegroTemplate:Snd From September 2006
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TMP East TimorTemplate:Snd From May 2002
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />YUG YugoslaviaTemplate:Snd From July 2003
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZAR ZaireTemplate:Snd From July 1997
Indeterminate reservations
Indeterminately reserved code elements are reserved for use in a particular way, usually due to their presence in other coding systems. For example, several codes are reserved because they are used for international intellectual property organizations in WIPO Standard ST.3.
The following codes used to designate road vehicles are indeterminately reserved under the 1949 and 1968 United Nations Conventions on Road Traffic:
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ADN Aden
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BDS Barbados (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BRB)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BRU Brunei (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />BRN)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CDN Canada (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CAN)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EAK Kenya (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KEN)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EAT Tanganyika [Part of Tanzania, United Republic of]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EAU Uganda (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UGA)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />EAZ Zanzibar [Part of Tanzania, United Republic of]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBA Alderney
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBG Guernsey (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GGY)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBJ Jersey (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JEY)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBM Isle of Man (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />IMN)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBZ Gibraltar (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GIB)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GCA Guatemala (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GTM)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HKJ Jordan (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JOR)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MAL Malaysia (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MYS)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RCA Central African Republic (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CAF)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RCB Congo, People's Republic of (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />COG)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RCH Chile (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CHL)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RMM Mali (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MLI)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RNR Zambia (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZMB)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ROK Korea, Republic of (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />KOR)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RSM San Marino (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SMR)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RSR Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SLO Slovenia (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SVN)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SME Suriname (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SUR)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TMN Turkmenistan (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />TKM)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />WAG Gambia (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GMB)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />WAL Sierra Leone (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SLE)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />WAN Nigeria (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NGA)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ZRE Zaire (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />COD)
The following alpha-3 code was previously indeterminately reserved, but has been reassigned to another country as its official code:
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ROU Uruguay (current code <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />URY)Template:Snd Code reassigned to Romania
The following are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for special machine-readable passports:
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBD identifies a British Passport holder who is a British Overseas Territories citizen
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBN identifies a British Passport holder who is a British National (Overseas)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBO identifies a British Passport holder who is a British Overseas citizen
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBP identifies a British Passport holder who is a British protected person
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GBS identifies a British Passport holder who is a British subject
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UNA is used as a substitute for nationality where the holder is an Official of a Specialized Agency of the UN Organization
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UNK identifies Kosovo residents to whom travel documents were issued by the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />UNO is used to designate the UN Organization as the issuer and used as a substitute for nationality where the holder is an Official of the UN Organization
Deleted codes
Besides the codes currently transitionally reserved and two other codes currently exceptionally reserved (<templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />FXX for France, Metropolitan and <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SUN for USSR), the following alpha-3 codes have also been deleted from ISO 3166-1:[10]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />AFI French Afars and Issas
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ATB British Antarctic Territory
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />ATN Dronning Maud Land
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />CTE Canton and Enderbury Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DDR German Democratic Republic
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />DHY Dahomey
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />GEL Gilbert and Ellice Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />HVO Upper Volta
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />JTN Johnston Island
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />MID Midway Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />NHB New Hebrides
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PCI Pacific Islands (Trust Territory)
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PCZ Panama Canal Zone
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PHI PhilippinesTemplate:Snd Code changed to <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PHL in 1976[11]
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />PUS United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />RHO Southern Rhodesia
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />SKM Sikkim
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />VDR Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />WAK Wake Island
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />YMD Yemen, Democratic
See also
- List of IOC country codes, used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- List of FIFA country codes, used by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
- Comparison of alphabetic country codes
References
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Sources
- ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- 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
- Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use, United Nations Statistics Division
- Countries or areas, codes and abbreviationsTemplate:Snd list of alpha-3 and numeric codes (a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list)
- The World Factbook (public domain), Central Intelligence Agency
- Appendix DTemplate:Snd Country Data CodesTemplate:Snd comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166, and STANAG 1059 country codes
- Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids"), Statoids.com
- Country codesTemplate:Snd comparison of ISO 3166-1 country codes with other country codes
- ISO 3166-1 Change History, Statoids.com
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