ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent territories. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard. They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its first edition in 1974.

They are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports.

Current codes
Officially assigned code elements
Below is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes, with country names being English short country names officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):


 ABW  Aruba AFG  Afghanistan AGO  Angola AIA  Anguilla ALA  Åland Islands ALB  Albania AND  Andorra ANT  Netherlands Antilles ARE  United Arab Emirates ARG  Argentina ARM  Armenia ASM  American Samoa ATA  Antarctica ATF  French Southern and Antarctic Lands ATG  Antigua and Barbuda AUS  Australia AUT  Austria AZE  Azerbaijan BDI  Burundi BEL  Belgium BEN  Benin BES  Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba BFA  Burkina Faso BGD  Bangladesh BGR  Bulgaria BHR  Bahrain BHS  Bahamas BIH  Bosnia and Herzegovina BLM  Saint Barthélemy BLR  Belarus BLZ  Belize BMU  Bermuda BOL  Bolivia BRA  Brazil BRB  Barbados BRN  Brunei Darussalam BTN  Bhutan BVT  Bouvet Island BWA  Botswana CAF  Central African Republic CAN  Canada CCK  Cocos (Keeling) Islands CHE  Switzerland CHL  Chile CHN  China CIV  Côte d'Ivoire CMR  Cameroon COD  Congo, the Democratic Republic of the COG  Congo COK  Cook Islands COL  Colombia COM  Comoros CPT  Clipperton Island CPV  Cape Verde CRI  Costa Rica CUB  Cuba CXR  Christmas Island CYM  Cayman Islands CYP  Cyprus CZE  Czechia DEU  Germany DJI  Djibouti DMA  Dominica DNK  Denmark DOM  Dominican Republic DZA  Algeria ECU  Ecuador EGY  Egypt ERI  Eritrea ESH  Western Sahara ESP  Spain EST  Estonia ETH  Ethiopia FIN  Finland FJI  Fiji FLK  Falkland Islands (Malvinas) FRA  France FRO  Faroe Islands FSM  Micronesia, Federated States of GAB  Gabon GBR  United Kingdom GEO  Georgia GGY  Guernsey GHA  Ghana 

 GIN  Guinea GIB  Gibraltar GLP  Guadeloupe GMB  Gambia GNB  Guinea-Bissau GNQ  Equatorial Guinea GRC  Greece GRD  Grenada GRL  Greenland GTM  Guatemala GUF  French Guiana GUM  Guam GUY  Guyana HKG  Hong Kong HMD  Heard Island and McDonald Islands HND  Honduras HRV  Croatia HTI  Haiti HUN  Hungary IDN  Indonesia IMN  Isle of Man IND  India IOT  British Indian Ocean Territory IRL  Ireland IRN  Iran, Islamic Republic of IRQ  Iraq ISL  Iceland ISR  Israel ITA  Italy JAM  Jamaica JEY  Jersey JOR  Jordan JPN  Japan KAZ  Kazakhstan KEN  Kenya KGZ  Kyrgyzstan KHM  Cambodia KIR  Kiribati KNA  Saint Kitts and Nevis KOR  Korea, Republic of KWT  Kuwait LAO  Lao People's Democratic Republic LBN  Lebanon LBR  Liberia LBY  Libyan Arab Jamahiriya LCA  Saint Lucia LIE  Liechtenstein LKA  Sri Lanka LSO  Lesotho LTU  Lithuania LUX  Luxembourg LVA  Latvia MAC  Macao MAF  Saint Martin MAR  Morocco MCO  Monaco MDA  Moldova, Republic of MDG  Madagascar MDV  Maldives MEX  Mexico MHL  Marshall Islands MKD  Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of MLI  Mali MLT  Malta MMR  Myanmar MNE  Montenegro MNG  Mongolia MNP  Northern Mariana Islands MOZ  Mozambique MRT  Mauritania MSR  Montserrat MTQ  Martinique MUS  Mauritius MWI  Malawi MYS  Malaysia MYT  Mayotte NAM  Namibia NCL  New Caledonia NER  Niger NFK  Norfolk Island NGA  Nigeria NIC  Nicaragua 

 NOR  Norway NIU  Niue NLD  Netherlands NPL  Nepal NRU  Nauru NZL  New Zealand OMN  Oman PAK  Pakistan PAN  Panama PCN  Pitcairn Islands PER  Peru PHL  Philippines PLW  Palau PNG  Papua New Guinea POL  Poland PRI  Puerto Rico PRK  Korea, Democratic People's Republic of PRT  Portugal PRY  Paraguay PSE  Palestinian Territory, Occupied PYF  French Polynesia QAT  Qatar REU  Réunion ROU  Romania RUS  Russian Federation RWA  Rwanda SAU  Saudi Arabia SDN  Sudan SEN  Senegal SGP  Singapore SGS  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands SHN  Saint Helena SJM  Svalbard and Jan Mayen SLB  Solomon Islands SLE  Sierra Leone SLV  El Salvador SMR  San Marino SOM  Somalia SPM  Saint Pierre and Miquelon SRB  Serbia STP  São Tomé and Príncipe SUR  Suriname SVK  Slovakia SVN  Slovenia SWE  Sweden SWZ  Eswatini SXM  Sint Maarten SYC  Seychelles SYR  Syrian Arab Republic TCA  Turks and Caicos Islands TCD  Chad TGO  Togo THA  Thailand TJK  Tajikistan TKL  Tokelau TKM  Turkmenistan TLS  Timor-Leste TON  Tonga TTO  Trinidad and Tobago TUN  Tunisia TUR  Turkey TUV  Tuvalu TWN  Taiwan, Province of China TZA  Tanzania, United Republic of UGA  Uganda UKR  Ukraine UMI  United States Minor Outlying Islands URY  Uruguay USA  United States UZB  Uzbekistan VAT  Holy See (Vatican City State) VCT  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VEN  Venezuela VGB  Virgin Islands, British VIR  Virgin Islands, U.S. VNM  Viet Nam VUT  Vanuatu WLF  Wallis and Futuna WSM  Samoa YEM  Yemen ZAF  South Africa ZMB  Zambia ZWE  Zimbabwe

User-assigned code elements
The following alpha-3 codes can be user-assigned: from AAA to AAZ, from QMA to QZZ, from XAA to XZZ, and from ZZA to ZZZ. 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.

Reserved code elements
Reserved code elements are codes which, while not ISO 3166-1 codes, are in use for some applications in conjunction with the ISO 3166 codes. The ISO 3166/MA therefore reserves them, so that they are not used for new official ISO 3166 codes, thereby creating conflicts between the standard and those applications.

Exceptional reservations
The following alpha-3 codes are subject to an exceptional reservation:
 ASC – Ascension Island — Reserved on request of UPU, also used by ITU
 DGA – Diego Garcia — Reserved on request of ITU
 FXX – France, Metropolitan — Reserved on request of France
 TAA – Tristan da Cunha — Reserved on request of UPU

The following three codes were also under exceptional reservation, until the update from 2006-03-29 included them in the standard:
 GGY – Guernsey — Reserved on request of UPU
 IMN – Isle of Man — Reserved on request of UPU
 JEY – Jersey — Reserved on request of UPU

Transitional reservations
The following alpha-3 codes are subject to a transitional reservation:
 BUR – Burma
 NTZ – Neutral Zone
 SCG – Serbia and Montenegro
 SUN – U.S.S.R.
 TMP – East Timor
 YUG – Yugoslavia
 ZAR – Zaire

Indeterminate reservations
The following alpha-3 codes are subject to an indeterminate reservation, having been notified to the United Nations Secretary-General under the 1949 and/or 1968 Road Traffic Conventions:
 ADN – Aden
 BDS – Barbados
 BRU – Brunei
 CDN – Canada
 EAK – Kenya
 EAT – Tanganyika
 EAU – Uganda
 EAZ – Zanzibar
 GBA – Alderney
 GBG – Guernsey
 GBJ – Jersey
 GBM – Isle of Man
 GBZ – Gibraltar
 GCA – Guatemala
 HKJ – Jordan
 MAL – Malaysia
 RCA – Central African Republic
 RCB – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
 RCH – Chile
 RMM – Mali
 RNR – Northern Rhodesia
 ROK – Republic of Korea
 RSM – San Marino
 RSR – Southern Rhodesia
 SLO – Slovenia
 SME – Suriname
 TMN – Turkmenistan
 WAG – Gambia
 WAL – Sierra Leone
 ZRE – Zaire

The following code has been reassigned:
 ROU – Uruguay — Reassigned to Romania

Codes currently agreed not to use
For the time being, ISO 3166/MA has agreed not to use the following codes, taken from ISO/IEC 7501-1 (machine readable travel documents), as alpha-3 country codes:
 GBD – British Dependent Territories Citizen
 GBN – British National (Overseas)
 GBO – British Overseas Citizen
 GBP – British Protected Person
 GBS – British Subject
 UNA – United Nations Specialized Agency Official
 UNK – Kosovar resident, issued passport for travel document by the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo
 UNO – United Nations Organization as the issuer and substitutes nationality when the holder is an Official of the UN Organization

Other withdrawn codes
Besides the codes currently transitionally reserved and FXX (now exceptionally reserved), these alpha-3 codes have also been withdrawn since the first edition of ISO 3166 in 1974:
 AFI – French Afar and Issas
 ATB – British Antarctic Territory
 ATN – Dronning Maud Land
 BYS – Byelorussian S.S.R. — Belarus now uses BLR
 CSK – Czechoslovakia
 CTE – Canton and Enderbury Islands
 DDR – German Democratic Republic
 DHY – Dahomey
 GEL – Gilbert and Ellice Islands
 HVO – Upper Volta
 JTN – Johnston Island
 MID – Midway Islands
 NHB – New Hebrides
 PCI – Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the
 PCZ – Panama Canal Zone
 PHI – Philippines — Now uses PHL
 PUS – U.S. Miscellaneous Pacific Islands
 RHO – Southern Rhodesia
 ROM – Romania — Now uses ROU
 SKM – Sikkim
 VDR – Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of
 WAK – Wake Island
 YMD – Yemen, Democratic

Related pages
ISO 3166
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, 2-letter country codes
ISO 3166-1 numeric, 3-digit country codes
ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-3
List of IOC country codes, slightly different codes used by the International Olympic Committee
List of FIFA country codes, slightly different codes used by FIFA
Comparison of IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes

Sources and other websites
International Organization for Standardization (ISO): ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
United Nations Statistics Division, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use
Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations
CIA World Factbook, Appendix D – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes  (public domain)
Statoids, Country codes
ISO 3166-1 Change History
Country codes in ISO 3166 (outdated, include withdrawn codes)

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