The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes , using the English short country names officially defined by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ( ISO 3166\/MA ) : 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 .
These code elements are 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 them in the updating process of the standard .