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ISO 3166-1

• a two letter (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
  
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent country, dependent territory, and special areas of geographical interest....
  )
• a three-letter (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
  
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent country, dependent territory, and special areas of geographical interest....
  ), and
• a three-digit numeric (ISO 3166-1 numeric
  ISO 3166-1 numeric
  
  ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are three-digit country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent country, dependent territory, and special areas of geographical interest....
  ) code.

• for ISO 4217
  ISO 4217
  
  ISO 4217 is the international standard describing three-letter codes to define the names of currency established by the International Organization for Standardization ....
   currency
  Currency
  
  A currency is a Medium of exchange, facilitating the trade of goods and/or Service s. It is coins and paper bills used as money. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value....
   codes and
• with deviations, for country code top-level domain
  Top-level domain
  
  A top-level domain , sometimes referred to as a top-level domain name, is the last part of an domain name, that is, the group of letters that follow the final dot of any domain name....
   names (ccTLDs) on the Internet: list of Internet TLDs.

Other country codes

• The International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  
  The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
   (IOC) three letter codes used in sporting events: list of IOC country codes
  List of IOC country codes
  
  The International Olympic Committee uses three letter acronym country codes to refer to each group of athletes that participate in the Olympic Games....
  
• The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA
  FIFA
  
  The F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by its acronym, FIFA , is the international sport governing body of association football....
  ) assigns a three-letter code (dubbed FIFA Trigramme) to each of its member and non-member countries: List of FIFA country codes
  List of FIFA country codes
  
  FIFA assigns a three-letter code to each of its member and non-member countries. These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions....
  
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) used two-letter codes of its own: list of NATO country codes
  List of NATO country codes
  
  This is the list of NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes . The eighth edition, promulgated February 19, 2004 and effective April 1, 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes....
  . They were largely borrowed from the FIPS 10-4 codes mentioned below. In 2003, the eighth edition of the Standardisation Agreement (STANAG) adopted the ISO 3166 three-letter codes with one exception (the code for Macedonia). With the ninth edition, NATO is transitioning to four- and six-letter codes based on ISO 3166 with a few exceptions and additions.
• The coding system for car license plates under the 1949 and 1968 United Nations Road Traffic Conventions (distinguishing signs of vehicles in international traffic): List of international license plate codes
  List of international license plate codes
  
  On the international level, the designation of origin for a motor vehicle is distinguished by a supplementary international licence plate country code....
   
• The World Meteorological Organization
  World Meteorological Organization
  
  The World Meteorological Organization is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 188 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization , which was founded in 1873....
   (WMO) has its own list of country codes, used in reporting meteorological observations.
• The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) also has its own list of trigram country codes
  List of UNDP country codes
  
  This is the list of UNDP country codes.In addition to countries, codes identify geographical groupings and political entities such as various liberation fronts . The purpose of the codes is in part actuarial....
  .
• The Federal Information Processing Standard
  Federal Information Processing Standard
  
  Federal Information Processing Standards are publicly announced Standardizations developed by the United States Federal government for use by all non-military government agencies and by government contractors....
   (FIPS) 10-4
  FIPS 10-4
  
  The Federal Information Processing Standard 10-4 standard, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, lists two-letter country codes that are used by the U.S....
   defines two letter codes used by the US
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   government and in the CIA World Factbook: list of FIPS country codes
  List of FIPS country codes
  
  This is a list of Federal Information Processing Standard 10-4 country codes for Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions....
  , See also List of FIPS region codes
  List of FIPS region codes
  
  This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes, using a standardized name format, and cross-linking to articles. The list is broken up into alphabetical sections....
   for a set of 4-character region codes, also assigned by FIPS 10-4.
• The coding system for diplomatic license plates in the United States, assigned by the U.S. State Department
  United States Department of State
  
  The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the United States Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States Federal government of the United States, similar to foreign ministries, foreign offices, ministries of external relations, etc....
  .
• From the International Telecommunication Union
  International Telecommunication Union
  
  The International Telecommunication Union is the second-oldest international organization still in existence , established to standardize and regulate international radio and telecommunications....
   (ITU):
• the E.164
  E.164
  
  E.164 is an ITU-T recommendation which defines the international public telecommunications numbering plan used in the PSTN and some other data telecommunications network....
   international telephone dialling codes: list of country calling codes
  List of country calling codes
  
  This is a list of country calling codes defined by ITU-T recommendation E.164.The telephone numbering plan for a telephone system includes an international dialing prefix, such as "00" or "011", which must be dialed before the country calling code when dialing an international phone number....
   with 1-3 digits,
• the E.212 mobile country codes (MCC), for mobile/wireless phone addresses,
• the first few characters of call signs of radio stations (maritime, aeronautical, amateur radio
  Amateur radio
  
  Amateur radio, often called Etymology of ham radio, is both a hobby and a service in which participants, called "hams," use various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for Public services, recreation and self-training....
  , broadcasting, etc.) define the country: the ITU prefix
  ITU prefix
  
  The International Telecommunication Union allocates call signes for radio station and television station stations of all types. They also form the basis for aircraft registration identifiers....
  ,
• ITU letter codes
  ITU letter codes
  
  The radiocommunication division of the International Telecommunication Union uses the following letter codes to identify its member countries. Eight countries are assigned single-letter codes, while the rest have codes three letters in length....
   for member-countries,
• Three-digit codes used to identify countries in maritime mobile radio transmissions, known as maritime identification digits
  Maritime identification digits
  
  Maritime identification digits are used by ship-to-shore radiocommunication facilities to identify their home country or base area in Digital Selective Calling and Automatic Identification System messages, as part of their Maritime Mobile Service Identity....
  
• European Union
  European Union
  
  The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
  :
• Before the 2004 EU enlargement
  Enlargement of the European Union
  
  Enlargement of the European Union is the process of expanding the European Union through the accession of new Member State of the European Union....
   the EU used the UN Road Traffic Conventions license plate codes
  List of international license plate codes
  
  On the international level, the designation of origin for a motor vehicle is distinguished by a supplementary international licence plate country code....
  ; since then, it uses ISO 3166-1
  ISO 3166-1
  
  ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of country, dependent territory, and special areas of geographical interest....
  , with 2 exceptions: EL (not GR) is used for Greece
  Greece
  
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
  , and UK (not GB) is used for the United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  .
• The Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics, NUTS) of the European Union
  European Union
  
  The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
  , mostly focusing on subdivisions of the EU member states
• From the International Civil Aviation Organization
  International Civil Aviation Organization
  
  The International Civil Aviation Organization , an agency of the United Nations, codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international scheduled air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth....
   (ICAO):
• aircraft registration prefixes
  Aircraft registration
  
  An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies an aircraft, in similar fashion to a Vehicle registration plate on an automobile....
  ,
• nationality letters for location indicators.
• From the International Union of Railways
  International Union of Railways
  
  The UIC or International Union of Railways is an international rail transport industry body.The railways of Europe had grown up as separate concerns....
   (UIC):
• UIC Country Code
  UIC Country Code
  
  The UIC Country Code is a two digit number used to identify member countries of the International Union of Railways . The UIC has issued numbering systems for rolling stock and train stations that both contain the UIC Country Code....
  
• GOST 7.67
  GOST 7.67
  
  GOST 7.67 or ISO 3166-88 is GOST standard for country codes.The standard defines country names in Russian language and English language, Cyrillic three-letter country codes, Latin alphabet three- and two-letter country codes, as well as numeric country codes....
  

Other codings

• The initial digits of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) are group identifiers for countries, areas, or language regions.
• The first three digits of GS1
  GS1
  
  GS1 is a global organization dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of Supply Chain globally and across multiple sectors....
   Company Prefixes used to identify products, e.g. in barcode
  Barcode
  
  A bar code is an optical machine-readable representation of data. Originally, bar codes represented data in the widths and the spacings of parallel lines and may be referred to as linear or 1D barcodes or symbologies....
  s, designate (national) numbering agencies.

Lists of country codes by country

See also

• ISO 639
  ISO 639
  
  ISO 639 is the set of International Organization for Standardization that lists short language code for language names. It was also the name of the original standard, approved in 1967 and withdrawn in 2002....
   language codes
• Language code
  Language code
  
  A language code is a code that assigns letters or numbers as identifiers for languages. These codes are often used to organize library collections, to choose the correct localizations and translations in computing, and as a shorthand designation for forms....
  
• Numbering scheme
  Numbering scheme
  
  There are many different numbering schemes for assigning nominal numbers to entities. These generally require an agreed set of rules, or a central coordinator....
  

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