| 1 | A | B | C |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | ISO 3166-1 numeric - Withdrawn codes |  |  |
| 3 | Code | Country name | Notes |
| 4 | 128 | Canton and Enderbury Islands | - |
| 5 | 200 | Czechoslovakia | - |
| 6 | 216 | Dronning Maud Land | - |
| 7 | 230 | Ethiopia | before Eritrea split away in 1993 |
| 8 | 249 | France, Metropolitan | - |
| 9 | 278 | German Democratic Republic | i.e., East Germany |
| 10 | 280 | Germany, Federal Republic of | i.e., West Germany |
| 11 | 396 | Johnston Island | - |
| 12 | 488 | Midway Islands | - |
| 13 | 530 | Netherlands Antilles | after Aruba split away in 1986 |
| 14 | 532 | Netherlands Antilles | before Aruba split away in 1986 |
| 15 | 536 | Neutral Zone | - |
| 16 | 582 | Pacific Islands (Trust Territory) | - |
| 17 | 590 | Panama | before adding Panama Canal Zone in 1979 |
| 18 | 658 | Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla | - |
| 19 | 720 | Yemen, Democratic | i.e., South Yemen |
| 20 | 736 | Sudan | before South Sudan split away in 2011 |
| 21 | 810 | USSR | - |
| 22 | 849 | United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands | - |
| 23 | 872 | Wake Island | - |
| 24 | 886 | Yemen Arab Republic | i.e., North Yemen |
| 25 | 890 | Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of | - |
| 26 | 891 | Serbia and Montenegro | original name: Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of |

Question: What code did Germany use before?
Answer: East Germany and West Germany used numeric codes 278 and 280.