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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country code

Country code

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geography codes developed to represent country and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications....
s defined in 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....
, part of the ISO 3166

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a three-part standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of country, dependent territory, and special areas of geographical interest, and their principal country subdivision ....
standard

Standardization

Standardization is the process of developing and agreeing upon Standard . A standard is a document that establishes uniform engineering or technical specifications, criteria, methods, processes, or practices....
published by the International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO , is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations....
(ISO), to represent countries

Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
, dependent territories

Dependent territory

A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a Territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State....
, and special areas of geographical interest. They are the most widely used of the country codes published by ISO, and are used most prominently for the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
's country code top-level domain

Country code top-level domain

TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ...
s (with a few exceptions). They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its first edition in 1974.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are used in different environments and are also part of other standards.

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country code

Country code

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geography codes developed to represent country and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications....
s defined in ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166

Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

Country

Dependent territory

Internet

Country code top-level domain

Uses and applications

The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are used in different environments and are also part of other standards. In some cases they are not perfectly implemented.

Perfect implementations

The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are used in the following standards:

ISO 3901 — International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
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 code
ISO 6166
ISO 6166

International Organization for Standardization 6166 defines the structure of an International Securities Identifying Number . An ISIN uniquely identifies a fungible security....
— International Securities Identifying Number (ISIN)
ISO 9362
ISO 9362

ISO 9362 is a standard format of Bank Identifier Codes approved by the International Organization for Standardization . It is the unique identification code of a particular bank....
— Bank Identifier Codes (BIC, or SWIFT
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication operates a worldwide Financial cryptography computer network which exchanges messages between banks and other financial institutions....
codes)
ISO 13616 — International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
UN/LOCODE
UN/LOCODE

UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, is a geocode developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe , a unit of the United Nations....
— United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, implemented by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe was established in 1947 to encourage economic cooperation among its member States. It is one of five regional commissions under the administrative direction of United Nations headquarters....

Imperfect implementations

Starting in 1985, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes have been used in the Domain Name System

Domain name system

The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to such participants....
as country code top-level domain

Country code top-level domain

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is the entity that oversees global IP address, root nameserver for the Domain Name System , Internet media type, and other Internet protocol assignments....
currently assigns the ccTLDs mostly following the alpha-2 codes, but with a few exceptions. For example, the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

.uk

.uk is the Internet country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom. As of July 2008, it is the fifth most popular top-level domain worldwide , with over 7 million registrations....
instead of .gb

.gb

.gb is a reserved Internet country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom. Introduced at the same time as the UK's other top-level domain , it was never widely used....
as its ccTLD (UK is currently exceptionally reserved on the request of the United Kingdom).

The WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....
coding standard ST.3 is based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, but includes a number of additional codes for international intellectual property organization

Intellectual property organization

Intellectual property organizations are organizations that are focused on copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property law concepts....
s. For these additional codes, see the section Codes currently agreed not to use.

The European Commission

European Commission

The European Commission is the executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Treaties of the European Union and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes with two exceptions: EL (not GR) is used to represent 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 to represent 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....
. This notwithstanding, the Official Journal of the European Communities specified that GB and GR be used to represent the United Kingdom and Greece respectively.

The United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
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, the codes on the oval stickers used to identify foreign road vehicles. For some of these additional codes, see the section Indeterminate reservations.

IETF language tags are also partially derived from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.

Current codes

Decoding table

The following is a colour-coded decoding table of all ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (click on a cell to see the definition of the code):

Decoding table of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes
`AA`	`AB`	`AC`	`AD`	`AE`	`AF`	`AG`	`AH`	`AI`	`AJ`	`AK`	`AL`	`AM`	`AN`	`AO`	`AP`	`AQ`	`AR`	`AS`	`AT`	`AU`	`AV`	`AW`	`AX`	`AY`	`AZ`
`BA`	`BB`	`BC`	`BD`	`BE`	`BF`	`BG`	`BH`	`BI`	`BJ`	`BK`	`BL`	`BM`	`BN`	`BO`	`BP`	`BQ`	`BR`	`BS`	`BT`	`BU`	`BV`	`BW`	`BX`	`BY`	`BZ`
`CA`	`CB`	`CC`	`CD`	`CE`	`CF`	`CG`	`CH`	`CI`	`CJ`	`CK`	`CL`	`CM`	`CN`	`CO`	`CP`	`CQ`	`CR`	`CS`	`CT`	`CU`	`CV`	`CW`	`CX`	`CY`	`CZ`
`DA`	`DB`	`DC`	`DD`	`DE`	`DF`	`DG`	`DH`	`DI`	`DJ`	`DK`	`DL`	`DM`	`DN`	`DO`	`DP`	`DQ`	`DR`	`DS`	`DT`	`DU`	`DV`	`DW`	`DX`	`DY`	`DZ`
`EA`	`EB`	`EC`	`ED`	`EE`	`EF`	`EG`	`EH`	`EI`	`EJ`	`EK`	`EL`	`EM`	`EN`	`EO`	`EP`	`EQ`	`ER`	`ES`	`ET`	`EU`	`EV`	`EW`	`EX`	`EY`	`EZ`
`FA`	`FB`	`FC`	`FD`	`FE`	`FF`	`FG`	`FH`	`FI`	`FJ`	`FK`	`FL`	`FM`	`FN`	`FO`	`FP`	`FQ`	`FR`	`FS`	`FT`	`FU`	`FV`	`FW`	`FX`	`FY`	`FZ`
`GA`	`GB`	`GC`	`GD`	`GE`	`GF`	`GG`	`GH`	`GI`	`GJ`	`GK`	`GL`	`GM`	`GN`	`GO`	`GP`	`GQ`	`GR`	`GS`	`GT`	`GU`	`GV`	`GW`	`GX`	`GY`	`GZ`
`HA`	`HB`	`HC`	`HD`	`HE`	`HF`	`HG`	`HH`	`HI`	`HJ`	`HK`	`HL`	`HM`	`HN`	`HO`	`HP`	`HQ`	`HR`	`HS`	`HT`	`HU`	`HV`	`HW`	`HX`	`HY`	`HZ`
`IA`	`IB`	`IC`	`ID`	`IE`	`IF`	`IG`	`IH`	`II`	`IJ`	`IK`	`IL`	`IM`	`IN`	`IO`	`IP`	`IQ`	`IR`	`IS`	`IT`	`IU`	`IV`	`IW`	`IX`	`IY`	`IZ`
`JA`	`JB`	`JC`	`JD`	`JE`	`JF`	`JG`	`JH`	`JI`	`JJ`	`JK`	`JL`	`JM`	`JN`	`JO`	`JP`	`JQ`	`JR`	`JS`	`JT`	`JU`	`JV`	`JW`	`JX`	`JY`	`JZ`
`KA`	`KB`	`KC`	`KD`	`KE`	`KF`	`KG`	`KH`	`KI`	`KJ`	`KK`	`KL`	`KM`	`KN`	`KO`	`KP`	`KQ`	`KR`	`KS`	`KT`	`KU`	`KV`	`KW`	`KX`	`KY`	`KZ`
`LA`	`LB`	`LC`	`LD`	`LE`	`LF`	`LG`	`LH`	`LI`	`LJ`	`LK`	`LL`	`LM`	`LN`	`LO`	`LP`	`LQ`	`LR`	`LS`	`LT`	`LU`	`LV`	`LW`	`LX`	`LY`	`LZ`
`MA`	`MB`	`MC`	`MD`	`ME`	`MF`	`MG`	`MH`	`MI`	`MJ`	`MK`	`ML`	`MM`	`MN`	`MO`	`MP`	`MQ`	`MR`	`MS`	`MT`	`MU`	`MV`	`MW`	`MX`	`MY`	`MZ`
`NA`	`NB`	`NC`	`ND`	`NE`	`NF`	`NG`	`NH`	`NI`	`NJ`	`NK`	`NL`	`NM`	`NN`	`NO`	`NP`	`NQ`	`NR`	`NS`	`NT`	`NU`	`NV`	`NW`	`NX`	`NY`	`NZ`
`OA`	`OB`	`OC`	`OD`	`OE`	`OF`	`OG`	`OH`	`OI`	`OJ`	`OK`	`OL`	`OM`	`ON`	`OO`	`OP`	`OQ`	`OR`	`OS`	`OT`	`OU`	`OV`	`OW`	`OX`	`OY`	`OZ`
`PA`	`PB`	`PC`	`PD`	`PE`	`PF`	`PG`	`PH`	`PI`	`PJ`	`PK`	`PL`	`PM`	`PN`	`PO`	`PP`	`PQ`	`PR`	`PS`	`PT`	`PU`	`PV`	`PW`	`PX`	`PY`	`PZ`
`QA`	`QB`	`QC`	`QD`	`QE`	`QF`	`QG`	`QH`	`QI`	`QJ`	`QK`	`QL`	`QM`	`QN`	`QO`	`QP`	`QQ`	`QR`	`QS`	`QT`	`QU`	`QV`	`QW`	`QX`	`QY`	`QZ`
`RA`	`RB`	`RC`	`RD`	`RE`	`RF`	`RG`	`RH`	`RI`	`RJ`	`RK`	`RL`	`RM`	`RN`	`RO`	`RP`	`RQ`	`RR`	`RS`	`RT`	`RU`	`RV`	`RW`	`RX`	`RY`	`RZ`
`SA`	`SB`	`SC`	`SD`	`SE`	`SF`	`SG`	`SH`	`SI`	`SJ`	`SK`	`SL`	`SM`	`SN`	`SO`	`SP`	`SQ`	`SR`	`SS`	`ST`	`SU`	`SV`	`SW`	`SX`	`SY`	`SZ`
`TA`	`TB`	`TC`	`TD`	`TE`	`TF`	`TG`	`TH`	`TI`	`TJ`	`TK`	`TL`	`TM`	`TN`	`TO`	`TP`	`TQ`	`TR`	`TS`	`TT`	`TU`	`TV`	`TW`	`TX`	`TY`	`TZ`
`UA`	`UB`	`UC`	`UD`	`UE`	`UF`	`UG`	`UH`	`UI`	`UJ`	`UK`	`UL`	`UM`	`UN`	`UO`	`UP`	`UQ`	`UR`	`US`	`UT`	`UU`	`UV`	`UW`	`UX`	`UY`	`UZ`
`VA`	`VB`	`VC`	`VD`	`VE`	`VF`	`VG`	`VH`	`VI`	`VJ`	`VK`	`VL`	`VM`	`VN`	`VO`	`VP`	`VQ`	`VR`	`VS`	`VT`	`VU`	`VV`	`VW`	`VX`	`VY`	`VZ`
`WA`	`WB`	`WC`	`WD`	`WE`	`WF`	`WG`	`WH`	`WI`	`WJ`	`WK`	`WL`	`WM`	`WN`	`WO`	`WP`	`WQ`	`WR`	`WS`	`WT`	`WU`	`WV`	`WW`	`WX`	`WY`	`WZ`
`XA`	`XB`	`XC`	`XD`	`XE`	`XF`	`XG`	`XH`	`XI`	`XJ`	`XK`	`XL`	`XM`	`XN`	`XO`	`XP`	`XQ`	`XR`	`XS`	`XT`	`XU`	`XV`	`XW`	`XX`	`XY`	`XZ`
`YA`	`YB`	`YC`	`YD`	`YE`	`YF`	`YG`	`YH`	`YI`	`YJ`	`YK`	`YL`	`YM`	`YN`	`YO`	`YP`	`YQ`	`YR`	`YS`	`YT`	`YU`	`YV`	`YW`	`YX`	`YY`	`YZ`
`ZA`	`ZB`	`ZC`	`ZD`	`ZE`	`ZF`	`ZG`	`ZH`	`ZI`	`ZJ`	`ZK`	`ZL`	`ZM`	`ZN`	`ZO`	`ZP`	`ZQ`	`ZR`	`ZS`	`ZT`	`ZU`	`ZV`	`ZW`	`ZX`	`ZY`	`ZZ`
Color legend
		Officially assigned: assigned to a country, territory, or area of geographical interest
		User-assigned: free for assignment at the disposal of users
		Exceptionally reserved: reserved on request for restricted use
		Transitionally reserved: deleted from ISO 3166-1 but maintained transitionally
		Indeterminately reserved: used in coding systems associated with ISO 3166-1
		Not used at present stage: not used in ISO 3166-1 at the present stage
		Un-assigned: free for assignment by the ISO 3166/MA only

Officially assigned code elements

The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, with four columns:

Alpha-2 — ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (with link to each country's ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal country subdivisions of all country coded in ISO 3166-1....
codes)
Country name — English short country name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA) (can be sorted by clicking on button)
Year included — Year when the country was first officially included in ISO 3166-1 (1974 if it has been included since the first edition of ISO 3166)
Notes — Any unofficial notes

Alpha-2	Country name	Year included	Notes
`AD`	Andorra Andorra Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France....	1974
`AEISO 3166-2:AE ISO 3166-2:AE is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the United Arab Emirates....`	United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....	1974
`AFISO 3166-2:AF ISO 3166-2:AF is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Afghanistan....`	Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....	1974
`AGISO 3166-2:AG ISO 3166-2:AG is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Antigua and Barbuda....`	Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located on the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. As its name suggests, it consists of two major islands Antigua and Barbuda as well as a number of smaller islets....	1974
`AIISO 3166-2:AI ISO 3166-2:AI is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Anguilla....`	Anguilla Anguilla Anguilla is a British overseas territories in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, approximately 26 km long by 5 km wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population....	1983	`AI` previously represented French Afar and Issas French Territory of the Afars and the Issas The French Territory of Afars and Issas is the name given to the territory of present-day Republic of Djibouti during the France colonization between 1967 and independence in 1977....
`ALISO 3166-2:AL ISO 3166-2:AL is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Albania....`	Albania Albania Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....	1974
`AMISO 3166-2:AM ISO 3166-2:AM is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Armenia....`	Armenia Armenia Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....	1992
`ANISO 3166-2:AN ISO 3166-2:AN is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the Netherlands Antilles....`	Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles , previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of two island group in the Caribbean Sea: Cura?ao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands....	1974
`AOISO 3166-2:AO ISO 3166-2:AO is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Angola....`	Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean....	1974
`AQISO 3166-2:AQ ISO 3166-2:AQ is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Antarctica....`	Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....	1974	Code taken from name in
`ARISO 3166-2:AR ISO 3166-2:AR is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Argentina....`	Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....	1974
`ASISO 3166-2:AS ISO 3166-2:AS is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of American Samoa....`	American Samoa American Samoa American Samoa is an Territories of the United States of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa....	1974
`ATISO 3166-2:AT ISO 3166-2:AT is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Austria....`	Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....	1974
`AUISO 3166-2:AU ISO 3166-2:AU is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Australia....`	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....	1974
`AWISO 3166-2:AW ISO 3166-2:AW is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Aruba....`	Aruba Aruba Aruba is a -long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, north of the Paraguan? Peninsula, Falc?n State, Venezuela. Together with Bonaire and Cura?ao it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands of the Leeward Antilles, the southern island chain of the Lesser Antilles....	1986
`AX`		2004
`AZISO 3166-2:AZ ISO 3166-2:AZ is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Azerbaijan....`	Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....	1992
`BAISO 3166-2:BA ISO 3166-2:BA is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina....`	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...	1992
`BBISO 3166-2:BB ISO 3166-2:BB is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Barbados....`	Barbados Barbados Barbados , situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Continental Island-island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. Located at roughly 13? North of the equator and 59? West of the prime meridian, it is considered a part of the Lesser Antilles....	1974
`BDISO 3166-2:BD ISO 3166-2:BD is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bangladesh....`	Bangladesh Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....	1974
`BEISO 3166-2:BE ISO 3166-2:BE is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Belgium....`	Belgium Belgium * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....	1974
`BFISO 3166-2:BF ISO 3166-2:BF is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Burkina Faso....`	Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Burkina Faso , also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and C?te d'Ivoire to the south west....	1984	Name changed from Upper Volta (`HV`)
`BGISO 3166-2:BG ISO 3166-2:BG is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bulgaria....`	Bulgaria Bulgaria The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....	1974
`BHISO 3166-2:BH ISO 3166-2:BH is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bahrain....`	Bahrain Bahrain The Kingdom of Bahrain, in , , literally Kingdom of the Two Seas).Bahrain is an Arabic island country in the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa regime....	1974
`BIISO 3166-2:BI ISO 3166-2:BI is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Burundi....`	Burundi Burundi Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the south and east, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west....	1974
`BJISO 3166-2:BJ ISO 3166-2:BJ is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Benin....`	Benin Benin Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin....	1977	Name changed from Dahomey Republic of Dahomey The Republic of Dahomey was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Prior to attaining autonomy it had been French Dahomey, part of the French Union.... (`DY`)
`BLISO 3166-2:BL ISO 3166-2:BL is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Saint Barth?lemy....`	Saint Barthélemy	2007
`BMISO 3166-2:BM ISO 3166-2:BM is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bermuda....`	Bermuda Bermuda Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 kilometres northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1350 kilometres south of Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada....	1974
`BNISO 3166-2:BN ISO 3166-2:BN is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Brunei....`	Brunei Darussalam Brunei Brunei Darussalam, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace , is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia....	1974
`BOISO 3166-2:BO ISO 3166-2:BO is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bolivia....`	Bolivia Bolivia The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....	1974
`BRISO 3166-2:BR ISO 3166-2:BR is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Brazil....`	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....	1974
`BSISO 3166-2:BS ISO 3166-2:BS is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the Bahamas....`	Bahamas The Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent, sovereign, English language-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago....	1974
`BTISO 3166-2:BT ISO 3166-2:BT is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bhutan....`	Bhutan Bhutan The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China....	1974
`BVISO 3166-2:BV ISO 3166-2:BV is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Bouvet Island....`	Bouvet Island Bouvet Island Bouvet Island is an uninhabited sub-antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope . It is a Dependent territory of Norway and is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty....	1974
`BWISO 3166-2:BW ISO 3166-2:BW is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Botswana....`	Botswana Botswana The Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland Protectorate, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 September 1966....	1974
`BYISO 3166-2:BY ISO 3166-2:BY is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Belarus....`	Belarus Belarus Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....	1974	Code taken from previous ISO country name: Byelorussian SSR (1974–1992)
`BZISO 3166-2:BZ ISO 3166-2:BZ is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Belize....`	Belize Belize Belize , formerly British Honduras, is a country in Central America. Once part of the Maya civilization, and very briefly the Spanish Empire, it was most recently affiliated with the British Empire, prior to gaining its independence in 1981....	1974
`CAISO 3166-2:CA ISO 3166-2:CA is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Canada....`	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....	1974
`CCISO 3166-2:CC ISO 3166-2:CC is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the Cocos Islands....`	Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands The Territory of Cocos Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a States and territories of Australia of Australia....	1974
`CDISO 3166-2:CD ISO 3166-2:CD is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo....`	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo , is a country in central Africa with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest list of African countries in order of geographical area....	1997	Name changed from Zaire Zaire The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971, and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo language word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers", and is often still used to refer to that state, perhaps because "Zai... (`ZR`)
`CFISO 3166-2:CF ISO 3166-2:CF is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the Central African Republic....`	Central African Republic Central African Republic The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west....	1974
`CGISO 3166-2:CG ISO 3166-2:CG is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the Republic of the Congo....`	Congo Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda , and the Gulf of Guinea....	1974
`CHISO 3166-2:CH ISO 3166-2:CH is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Switzerland....`	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....	1974
`CIISO 3166-2:CI ISO 3166-2:CI is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of C?te d'Ivoire....`		1974	i.e., Ivory Coast
`CKISO 3166-2:CK ISO 3166-2:CK is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of the Cook Islands....`	Cook Islands Cook Islands The Cook Islands are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in Associated state with New Zealand. The fifteen small islands in this Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of 240 square kilometres , but the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone covers 1.8 million square kilometres of ocean....	1974
`CLISO 3166-2:CL ISO 3166-2:CL is the subset of codes defined in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , for the names of the principal subdivisions of Chile....`	Chile Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....	1974
`CMISO 3166-2:CM ISO 3166-2:CM codes for the provinces of Cameroon. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Cameroon Cameroon The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south....	1974
`CNISO 3166-2:CN ISO 3166-2:CN is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to the People's Republic of China....`	China People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....	1974
`COISO 3166-2:CO ISO 3166-2:COis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Colombia Colombia Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....	1974
`CRISO 3166-2:CR ISO 3166-2:CR codes for the provinces of Costa Rica. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Costa Rica Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east....	1974
`CUISO 3166-2:CU ISO 3166-2:CUis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Cuba Cuba The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....	1974
`CVISO 3166-2:CV ISO 3166-2:CVis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Cape Verde....`	Cape Verde Cape Verde The Republic of Cape Verde , is an archipelago nation located in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa....	1974
`CX`	Christmas Island Christmas Island The Territory of Christmas Island is a Territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, Western Australia, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos Islands....	1974
`CYISO 3166-2:CY ISO 3166-2:CY is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that defines geocodes for Cyprus.Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code forCyprus followed by a two-alphanumeric-character subcode....`	Cyprus Cyprus Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....	1974
`CZISO 3166-2:CZ ISO 3166-2:CZis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....	1993
`DEISO 3166-2:DE The part of International Organization for Standardization ISO 3166-2 that applies to Germany provides codes for the names of the 16 states of Germany ....`	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....	1974	Previous ISO country name: Germany, Federal Republic of West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany.... (1974–1990) Code taken from name in
`DJISO 3166-2:DJ ISO 3166-2:DJ is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Djibouti....`	Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast....	1977	Name changed from French Afar and Issas French Territory of the Afars and the Issas The French Territory of Afars and Issas is the name given to the territory of present-day Republic of Djibouti during the France colonization between 1967 and independence in 1977.... (`AI`)
`DKISO 3166-2:DK ISO 3166-2:DKis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....	1974
`DMISO 3166-2:DM ISO 3166-2:DM is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Dominica. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Dominica and a two-digit number....`	Dominica Dominica The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. To the north/northwest lies Guadeloupe, to the southeast Martinique....	1974
`DOISO 3166-2:DO ISO 3166-2:DOis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....	1974
`DZISO 3166-2:DZ ISO 3166-2:DZis an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toAlgeria.It covers the country's 48 Provinces of Algeria....`	Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....	1974	Code taken from name in Berber Berber languages The Berber languages are a group of closely related languages spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, as well as by Berber people communities in parts of Niger and Mali.... : Ledzayer
`ECISO 3166-2:EC ISO 3166-2:ECis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....	1974
`EEISO 3166-2:EE Here is the list of the ISO 3166-2 codes for the counties of Estonia....`	Estonia Estonia Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....	1992
`EGISO 3166-2:EG ISO 3166-2:EG codes for the governorates of Egypt. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Egypt Egypt Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....	1974
`EH`	Western Sahara Western Sahara Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....	1974	Previous ISO country name: Spanish Sahara Spanish Sahara Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled as a territory by Spain between 1884 and 1975.... (1974–?) Code taken from former name in
`ERISO 3166-2:ER ISO 3166-2:ERis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Eritrea Eritrea Eritrea , officially the Country of Eritrea, is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast....	1993
`ESISO 3166-2:ES ISO 3166-2 is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes. The section that applies to Spain codes the provinces of Spain....`	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	1974	Includes Canary Islands Canary Islands The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union.... , Ceuta Ceuta Ceuta is an autonomous community#autonomous cities of Spain located on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean, which separates it from the Spanish mainland.... and Melilla Melilla Melilla is an autonomous cities of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast in North Africa. It was regarded as a part of M?laga prior to March 14, 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed.... Code taken from name in
`ETISO 3166-2:ET ISO 3166-2:ETis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....	1974
`FIISO 3166-2:FI ISO 3166-2:FIis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....	1974
`FJISO 3166-2:FJ ISO 3166-2:FJ codes for the divisions of Fiji. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Fiji Fiji Fiji , officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands , is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu....	1974
`FK`	Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located from the coast of Argentina, west of the Shag Rocks , and north of the British Antarctic Territory ....	1974
`FMISO 3166-2:FM ISO 3166-2:FM code for the Federated_States_of_Micronesia#Administrative_divisions. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Micronesia, Federated States of Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Papua New Guinea. The country is a sovereign state in Associated state with the United States....	1986	Previous ISO country name: Micronesia (1986–1992)
`FO`	Faroe Islands Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe or Faeroes are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately half way between Scotland and Iceland....	1974
`FRISO 3166-2:FR ISO 3166-2:FR is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to France....`	France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....	1974	Includes Clipperton Island Clipperton Island Clipperton Island is a nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at . It has no permanent inhabitants....
`GAISO 3166-2:GA ISO 3166-2:GA codes for the provinces of Gabon. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Gabon Gabon Gabon is a country in west central Africa sharing borders with the Gulf of Guinea to the west, Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, and Cameroon to the north, with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south....	1974
`GBISO 3166-2:GB ISO 3166-2:GB is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to the United Kingdom....`	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....	1974	Code taken from part of official name: Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population.... (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) `UK` also exceptionally reserved on request of the United Kingdom
`GDISO 3166-2:GD ISO 3166-2:GD is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Grenada. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Grenada and a two-digit number....`	Grenada Grenada Grenada is an island nation that includes the southern Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines....	1974
`GEISO 3166-2:GE ISO 3166-2:GEis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Georgia Georgia (country) Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....	1992	`GE` previously represented Gilbert and Ellice Islands Gilbert and Ellice Islands The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a United Kingdom protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1 January 1976 when the islands were divided into two different colonies which became independent nations shortly after....
`GF`	French Guiana French Guiana French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the northern coast of South America. Like the other Overseas departments, French Guiana is also an overseas region of France, one of the 26 regions of France, and is an integral part of the French Republic....	1974
`GGISO 3166-2:GG ISO 3166-2:GG is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Guernsey. It was added in ISO 3166-2:2007-04-17 but states only that there are no subdivisions....`	Guernsey Guernsey The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Isles Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.As well as the island of Guernsey itself, it also includes Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and other islets....	2006
`GHISO 3166-2:GH ISO 3166-2:GH is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Ghana....`	Ghana Ghana The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders C?te d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south....	1974
`GI`	Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory shares a border with Spain to the north....	1974
`GL`	Greenland Greenland Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....	1974
`GMISO 3166-2:GM ISO 3166-2:GM codes for the divisions of The Gambia. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Gambia The Gambia The Gambia commonly known as Gambia, is a country in West Africa. The Gambia is the smallest country in Africa, enclave by Senegal, and has a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west....	1974
`GNISO 3166-2:GN ISO 3166-2:GNis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Guinea Guinea Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. The country's current population is estimated at 10,211,437 ....	1974
`GP`	Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an island group or archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at , with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres . It is an overseas department of France....	1974
`GQISO 3166-2:GQ ISO 3166-2 is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. The section that applies to Equatorial Guinea codes the provinces of Equatorial Guinea. There are codes provided for the two regions of the country, but they are not part of the standard....`	Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a Spanish-speaking country located in Central Africa. With an area of 28,000 km2 it is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa, having a population estimated at half a million....	1974
`GRISO 3166-2:GR ISO 3166-2:GRis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	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....	1974
`GS`	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia ? which measures approximately by and is by far the largest island in the territory ? and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sand...	1993
`GTISO 3166-2:GT ISO 3166-2:GTis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....	1974
`GU`	Guam Guam Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....	1974
`GWISO 3166-2:GW ISO 3166-2:GW is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Guinea-Bissau. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Guinea-Bissau and a two-digit number....`	Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in western Africa, and one of the smallest states in continental Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....	1974
`GYISO 3166-2:GY ISO 3166-2:GY codes for the regions of Guyana. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Guyana Guyana Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America....	1974
`HKISO 3166-2:HK ISO 3166-2:HKis an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toHong Kong.Hong Kong has 18 districts of Hong Kongs, but they were not coded in ISO 3166-2....`	Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....	1974
`HM`	Heard Island and McDonald Islands Heard Island and McDonald Islands Heard Island and McDonald Islands are a volcanic group of Barren_vegetation islands located in the Southern Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica, approximately 4099 km west of Perth, Western Australia....	1974
`HNISO 3166-2:HN ISO 3166-2:HNis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Honduras Honduras Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....	1974
`HRISO 3166-2:HR ISO 3166-2:HRis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....	1992
`HTISO 3166-2:HT ISO 3166-2:HT codes for the departments of Haiti. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Haiti Haiti Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....	1974
`HUISO 3166-2:HU The part of ISO ISO 3166-2 that applies to Hungary provides codes for the names of the counties of Hungary and for the bigger cities....`	Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....	1974
`IDISO 3166-2:ID ISO 3166-2:IDis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....	1974
`IEISO 3166-2:IE ISO 3166-2:IE is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to the Republic of Ireland, and describes twenty-six counties....`	Ireland	1974
`ILISO 3166-2:IL ISO 3166-2:IL is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Israel.Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Israel and a 2-character-alphabetic sub-code, hyphenated together....`	Israel Israel Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....	1974
`IMISO 3166-2:IM ISO 3166-2:IM is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to the Isle of Man. It was added in ISO 3166-2:2007-04-17 but states only that there are no subdivisions....`	Isle of Man Isle of Man The Isle of Man , or Mann , is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles....	2006
`INISO 3166-2:IN ISO 3166-2:INis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....	1974
`IO`	British Indian Ocean Territory British Indian Ocean Territory The British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Islands is an British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia....	1974	Includes Diego Garcia Diego Garcia Diego Garcia is the largest atoll, in terms of land area, in Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The island is located in the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 km south of the southern coast of India....
`IQISO 3166-2:IQ ISO 3166-2:IQ is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Iraq....`	Iraq Iraq Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....	1974
`IRISO 3166-2:IR ISO 3166-2:IR is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Iran....`	Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....	1974
`ISISO 3166-2:IS ISO 3166-2:IS is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Iceland....`	Iceland Iceland Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....	1974
`ITISO 3166-2:IT ISO 3166-2:IT is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Italy....`	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....	1974
`JEISO 3166-2:JE ISO 3166-2:JE is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Jersey. It was added in ISO 3166-2:2007-04-17 but states only that there are no subdivisions....`	Jersey Jersey The Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes the nearly uninhabited islands of the Minquiers, ?cr?hous, the Pierres de Lecq and other rocks and reefs....	2006
`JMISO 3166-2:JM This is a list of ISO 3166-2 identification codes for parishes of Jamaica. The first part is international code for Jamaica, the second part identifies the parish....`	Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....	1974
`JOISO 3166-2:JO ISO 3166-2:JO codes for the governorates of Jordan. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Jordan Jordan Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....	1974
`JPISO 3166-2:JP ISO 3166-2:JPis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Japan Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....	1974
`KEISO 3166-2:KE ISO 3166-2:KE codes for the provinces of Kenya. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Kenya Kenya The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....	1974
`KGISO 3166-2:KG ISO 3166-2:KGis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east....	1992
`KHISO 3166-2:KH ISO 3166-2:KHis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Cambodia Cambodia The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh....	1974	Code taken from previous ISO country name: Kampuchea (1974–1990)
`KIISO 3166-2:KI ISO 3166-2:KI is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Kiribati. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Kiribati and a single character, hyphenated together....`	Kiribati Kiribati Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It is composed of List of islands belonging to Kiribati and one Tectonic uplift island, dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres, straddling the equator, and bordering the International Date Line to the east....	1979
`KMISO 3166-2:KM ISO 3166-2:KM codes for the divisions of Comoros. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Comoros Comoros The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between northern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique....	1974	Code taken from name in Comorian Comorian language Comorian is the most widely used language on the Comoros and Mayotte. It is a close relative of Swahili with a very strong Arabic language influence.... : Komori
`KNISO 3166-2:KN ISO 3166-2:KN is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Saint Kitts and Nevis. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Saint Kitts and Nevis and a two-digit number....`	Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest nation in the Americas, in both List of countries by area and List of countries by population....	1974	Previous ISO country name: Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla was historically an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the Caribbean Sea. This entity later became a province to the short lived West Indies Federation in 1958.... (1974–1983)
`KPISO 3166-2:KP ISO 3166-2:KPis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , is a state in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula....	1974	i.e., North Korea
`KRISO 3166-2:KR ISO 3166-2:KRis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Korea, Republic of South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....	1974	i.e., South Korea
`KWISO 3166-2:KW ISO 3166-2:KW are ISO 3166-2 codes for Kuwait. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Kuwait Kuwait The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....	1974
`KY`	Cayman Islands Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands are a British overseas territory located in the western Caribbean Sea, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman....	1974
`KZISO 3166-2:KZ ISO 3166-2:KZis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....	1992	Previous ISO country name: Kazakstan (1992–2002)
`LAISO 3166-2:LA ISO 3166-2:LAis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Lao People's Democratic Republic Laos Laos , officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west....	1974
`LBISO 3166-2:LB ISO 3166-2:LB is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Lebanon....`	Lebanon Lebanon Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....	1974
`LC`	Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Saint Lucia is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique....	1974
`LIISO 3166-2:LI ISO 3166-2:LI is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Liechtenstein. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Liechtenstein and a two-digit number....`	Liechtenstein Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a Landlocked country#Doubly landlocked country alpine country microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and by Austria to the east....	1974
`LKISO 3166-2:LK ISO 3166-2:LK code for the Sri_Lanka#Provinces and districts. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....	1974
`LRISO 3166-2:LR ISO 3166-2:LR is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Liberia. It appears that the new Taylor-created counties of River Gee and Gbarpolu have not been given ISO codes yet, as the database from ISO 3166-2/MA does not include them ....`	Liberia Liberia Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, C?te d'Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean....	1974
`LSISO 3166-2:LS ISO 3166-2:LS codes for the districts of Lesotho. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Lesotho Lesotho Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave ? entirely surrounded by the South Africa. Formerly Basutoland, it is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations....	1974
`LTISO 3166-2:LT ISO 3166-2:LT lists codes for the ten counties of Lithuania. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on packaging labels, containers and such....`	Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....	1992
`LUISO 3166-2:LU ISO 3166-2:LUis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany....	1974
`LVISO 3166-2:LV ISO 3166-2:LV codes for the districts of Latvia. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Latvia Latvia Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....	1992
`LYISO 3166-2:LY ISO 3166-2:LYis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....	1974
`MAISO 3166-2:MA ISO 3166-2:MAis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Morocco Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....	1974
`MC`	Monaco Monaco Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe . The territory lies on the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea....	1974
`MDISO 3166-2:MD \|ISO 3166-2:MDis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Moldova, Republic of Moldova Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....	1992	Previous ISO country name: Moldova (2008–2009)
`MEISO 3166-2:ME ISO 3166-2:ME is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Montenegro. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Montenegro and a two-digit number....`	Montenegro Montenegro Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....	2006
`MF`	Saint Martin (French part) Saint Martin (France) Saint Martin , officially the Collectivity of Saint Martin , is an overseas collectivity of France located in the Caribbean. It came into being on February 22, 2007, encompassing the northern parts of the Saint Martin and neighbouring islets, the largest of which is ?le Tintamarre....	2007
`MGISO 3166-2:MG ISO 3166-2:MG codes for the provinces of Madagascar. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Madagascar Madagascar Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....	1974
`MHISO 3166-2:MH ISO 3166-2:MH code for the Marshall_Islands#Government. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Marshall Islands Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands , officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands , is a Micronesian island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator....	1986
`MKISO 3166-2:MK ISO 3166-2:MK is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to the Republic of Macedonia. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for the Republic of Macedonia and a two-digit number....`	Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Republic of Macedonia The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....	1993	Designated as such due to naming dispute Macedonia naming dispute The Macedonia naming dispute between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia stems from the disagreement over the use of the name Macedonia . Greece opposes the post-1991 constitutional name of its northern neighbour, citing the lack of disambiguation between it and the adjacent Greek region of Macedonia .... Code taken from name in Macedonian Macedonian language Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language, and Croatian language languages.... : Makedonija
`MLISO 3166-2:ML ISO 3166-2:ML codes for the regions of Mali. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Mali Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west....	1974
`MMISO 3166-2:MM ISO 3166-2:MM codes for the administrative divisions of Myanmar. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Myanmar	1989	Name changed from Burma (`BU`)
`MNISO 3166-2:MN ISO 3166-2:MNis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Mongolia....`	Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....	1974
`MOISO 3166-2:MO ISO 3166-2:MOis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Macao Macau The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong....	1974	Previous ISO country name: Macau (1974–2002)
`MP`	Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands , officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean....	1986
`MQ`	Martinique Martinique Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km?. It is an overseas department of France. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia....	1974
`MRISO 3166-2:MR ISO 3166-2:MR defines the codes for the regions of Mauritania. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest....	1974
`MS`	Montserrat Montserrat Montserrat is British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea....	1974
`MT`	Malta Malta Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....	1974
`MUISO 3166-2:MU ISO 3166-2:MUis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Mauritius Mauritius Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....	1974
`MVISO 3166-2:MV This is a list of ISO 3166-2 identification codes for Maldives, identifying 20 atolls and one city .The first part is international code for Maldives, the second part identifies the atoll or the city....`	Maldives Maldives The Maldives , or Maldive Islands, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a Atolls of the Maldivess stretching south of India's Lakshadweep islands between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago, and about seven hundred kilometres south-west of Sri Lanka in the Laccadive Sea of Indian Ocean....	1974
`MWISO 3166-2:MW ISO 3166-2:MWis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Malawi Malawi The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique, which surrounds it on the east, south and west....	1974
`MXISO 3166-2:MX ISO 3166-2:MX is the subset of the International Organization for Standardization sub-national region code standard ISO 3166-2 that pertains to Mexico....`	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....	1974
`MYISO 3166-2:MY ISO 3166-2:MYis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....	1974
`MZISO 3166-2:MZ ISO 3166-2:MZ codes for the provinces of Mozambique. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....	1974
`NAISO 3166-2:NA ISO 3166-2:NA code for the regions of Namibia. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Namibia Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....	1974
`NC`	New Caledonia New Caledonia New Caledonia , is a "sui generis collectivity" of France located in the subregion of Melanesia in the Oceania. It comprises a main island , the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands....	1974
`NEISO 3166-2:NE ISO 3166-2:NE is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to the Niger....`	Niger Niger Niger , officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east....	1974
`NF`	Norfolk Island Norfolk Island Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It and two neighbouring islands form one of Australia's external Territory ....	1974
`NGISO 3166-2:NG ISO 3166-2:NG is an International Organization for Standardization International standard which defines a geocode: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Nigeria....`	Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....	1974
`NIISO 3166-2:NI ISO 3166-2:NI is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toNicaragua. It covers 15 departments of Nicaragua and two autonomous regions....`	Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....	1974
`NLISO 3166-2:NL ISO 3166-2:NLis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....	1974
`NOISO 3166-2:NO ISO 3166-2:NO is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....	1974
`NPISO 3166-2:NP ISO 3166-2:NP code for the zones of Nepal. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India....	1974
`NRISO 3166-2:NR ISO 3166-2:NR is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Nauru. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Nauru and a two-digit number....`	Nauru Nauru Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island nation in the Micronesian Pacific Ocean....	1974
`NU`	Niue Niue Niue is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the "Rock of Polynesia". Natives of the island call it "the Rock"....	1974
`NZISO 3166-2:NZ ISO 3166-2:NZis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....	1974
`OMISO 3166-2:OM ISO 3166-2:OM code for the administrative divisions of Oman. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Oman Oman Oman , officially the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates on the northwest, Saudi Arabia on the west and Yemen on the southwest....	1974
`PAISO 3166-2:PA ISO 3166-2:PA code for the provinces of Panama. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Panama Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....	1974
`PEISO 3166-2:PE ISO 3166-2:PEis an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Per?.It covers 25 Regions of Peru.The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code PE for Per?, the second part is a three-character-alphabetic marking the region within Per?....`	Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....	1974
`PF`	French Polynesia French Polynesia French Polynesia is a France overseas collectivity in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory ....	1974
`PGISO 3166-2:PG ISO 3166-2:PG code for the provinces of Papua New Guinea. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....	1974
`PHISO 3166-2:PH ISO 3166-2:PH is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to the Philippines. It covers the 79 Provinces of the Philippines and 16 Regions of the Philippines ....`	Philippines Philippines The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....	1974
`PKISO 3166-2:PK ISO 3166-2:PK code for the subdivisions of Pakistan. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...	1974
`PLISO 3166-2:PL ISO 3166-2:PLis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....	1974
`PM`	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1974
`PN`	Pitcairn Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands , officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson Island , Ducie Island and Oeno Island Islands, are a group of four volcano islands in the southern Pacific Ocean....	1974
`PR`	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....	1974
`PS`	Palestinian Territory, Occupied Palestinian territories The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined....	1999	Consisting of the West Bank West Bank The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel.... and the Gaza Strip Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north....
`PTISO 3166-2:PT ISO 3166-2:PT is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toPortugal.The first part of the code is the ISO 3166-1 country code PT for Portugal, the second part is two-digit-numeric ....`	Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....	1974
`PWISO 3166-2:PW ISO 3166-2:PW is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Palau. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Palau and a three-digit number....`	Palau Palau Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an borderless country in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles south of Tokyo....	1986
`PYISO 3166-2:PY ISO 3166-2:PY code for the departments of Paraguay. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Paraguay Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....	1974
`QAISO 3166-2:QA ISO 3166-2:QA code for the municipalities of Qatar. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Qatar Qatar Qatar , officially the State of Qatar , is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula....	1974
`RE`		1974
`ROISO 3166-2:RO ISO 3166-2:ROis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Romania Romania Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....	1974
`RSISO 3166-2:RS ISO 3166-2:RS is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Serbia. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Serbia and a two-digit number....`	Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....	2006	Code taken from official name: Republic of Serbia
`RUISO 3166-2:RU ISO 3166-2:RUis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Russian Federation Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....	1992
`RWISO 3166-2:RW ISO 3166-2:RW is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Rwanda. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Rwanda and a two-digit number....`	Rwanda Rwanda The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....	1974
`SAISO 3166-2:SA ISO 3166-2:SA code for the emirates of Saudi Arabia. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....	1974
`SBISO 3166-2:SB ISO 3166-2:SB is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to the Solomon Islands. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for the Solomon Islands and a two-character string....`	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands For the group of islands rather than the nation, see Solomon Islands .The Solomon Islands is a country in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands....	1974	Code taken from former name: British Solomon Islands
`SCISO 3166-2:SC ISO 3166-2:SC is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Seychelles. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Seychelles and a two-digit number....`	Seychelles Seychelles Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago Country of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....	1974
`SDISO 3166-2:SD ISO 3166-2:SD code for the states of Sudan. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Sudan Sudan Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....	1974
`SEISO 3166-2:SE ISO 3166-2:SEis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....	1974
`SGISO 3166-2:SG ISO 3166-2:SG code for the districts of Singapore. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....	1974
`SHISO 3166-2:SH ISO 3166-2:SH code for the Saint_Helena#Administrative_divisions. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Saint Helena Saint Helena Saint Helena , named after Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcano origin and a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean....	1974	Includes Ascension Island Ascension Island Ascension Island is an isolated island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa, and from the coast of South America.... and Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2,816 km from South Africa and 3,360 km from South America....
`SIISO 3166-2:SI ISO 3166-2:SIis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Slovenia Slovenia Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....	1992
`SJ`	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	1974	Consisting of Svalbard Svalbard Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74th parallel north to 81st parallel north, and 10th meridian east to 35th meridian east.... and Jan Mayen
`SKISO 3166-2:SK The ISO 3166-2:SK are the codes for the regions of Slovakia. The first part represents the code for the country , the second part is represented by two letters identifying the region....`	Slovakia Slovakia Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....	1993	`SK` previously represented Sikkim Sikkim Sikkim is a landlocked States and territories of India nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second-smallest in area after Goa....
`SLISO 3166-2:SL ISO 3166-2:SL code for the provinces of Sierra Leone. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea in the northeast, Liberia in the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest....	1974
`SMISO 3166-2:SM ISO 3166-2:SM is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to San Marino. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for San Marino and a two-digit number....`	San Marino San Marino The Most Serene Republic of San Marino is a country in the Apennine Mountains. It is a landlocked country Enclave and exclave, completely surrounded by Italy....	1974
`SNISO 3166-2:SN The ISO 3166-2:SN are the ISO 3166-2 codes for the regions of Senegal.References ...`	Senegal Senegal Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the S?n?gal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south....	1974
`SOISO 3166-2:SO Although they are probably unrelated to the ISO accepted codes for these regions, the UPU PostCode publication specifies the abbreviations used by the Somalian Postal Service:...`	Somalia Somalia Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....	1974
`SRISO 3166-2:SR ISO 3166-2:SRis an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toSuriname.It covers 10 districts.Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for...`	Suriname Suriname Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname is a country in northern South America. Originally, the country was spelled Surinam by English settlers who founded the first colony at Marshall's Creek, along the Suriname River, and was Geographical renaming Nederlands Guyana, Netherlands Guiana or Dutch Guiana....	1974
`STISO 3166-2:ST ISO 3166-2:ST is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toS?o Tom? and Principe.Newsletters...`	Sao Tome and Principe São Tomé and Príncipe S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa....	1974
`SVISO 3166-2:SV ISO 3166-2:SV is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to El Salvador....`	El Salvador El Salvador El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....	1974
`SYISO 3166-2:SY ISO 3166-2:SY code for the governorates of Syria. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Syrian Arab Republic Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....	1974
`SZISO 3166-2:SZ ISO 3166-2:SZ code for the districts of Swaziland. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Swaziland Swaziland The Kingdom of Swaziland is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south, and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique....	1974
`TCISO 3166-2:TC ISO 3166-2:TC is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to the Turks and Caicos Islands. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for the Turks and Caicos Islands and two letters....`	Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre....	1974
`TDISO 3166-2:TD ISO 3166-2:TD is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Chad. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Chad and a two- or three-character string....`	Chad Chad Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west....	1974
`TF`	French Southern Territories	1979	Covers the jurisdiction of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands except Adélie Land Adélie Land Ad?lie Land is the portion of the Antarctic coast between Pourquoi Pas Point at and Point Alden at , with a shore length of 350 km and with its hinterland extending as a Circular sector about 2,600 km toward the South Pole.... Code taken from name in
`TGISO 3166-2:TG ISO 3166-2:TG code for the regions of Togo. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Togo Togo Togo is a narrow country in West Africa bordering Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lom? is located....	1974
`THISO 3166-2:TH ISO 3166-2:TH is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Thailand....`	Thailand Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....	1974
`TJISO 3166-2:TJ ISO 3166-2:TJis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Tajikistan Tajikistan Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east....	1992
`TK`	Tokelau Tokelau Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand that consists of three tropical coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean. The United Nations United Nations General Assembly designated Tokelau a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories....	1974
`TLISO 3166-2:TL ISO 3166-2:TLis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Timor-Leste East Timor East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro Island and Jaco , and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor....	2002	Name changed from East Timor East Timor East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro Island and Jaco , and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor.... (`TP`)
`TMISO 3166-2:TM ISO 3166-2:TMis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Turkmenistan Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a Turkic peoples country in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic ....	1992
`TNISO 3166-2:TN ISO 3166-2:TNis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Tunisia Tunisia Tunisia , officially the Tunisian Republic , is a country located in North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the southeast....	1974
`TOISO 3166-2:TO ISO 3166-2:TO is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Tonga. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Tonga and a two-digit number....`	Tonga Tonga The Kingdom of Tonga in the south Pacific Ocean comprises an archipelago of 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres in a north-south line....	1974
`TRISO 3166-2:TR ISO 3166-2:TRis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....	1974
`TTISO 3166-2:TT ISO 3166-2:TT is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Trinidad and Tobago. It covers the 11 regions, 3 boroughs, and 2 cities of the country....`	Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....	1974
`TVISO 3166-2:TV ISO 3166-2:TV is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Tuvalu....`	Tuvalu Tuvalu Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia....	1979
`TWISO 3166-2:TW ISO 3166-2:TWis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Taiwan, Province of China Taiwan Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...	1974	Covers the jurisdiction of the Republic of China Republic of China The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan.... except Kinmen Kinmen Kinmen , located at , is a small archipelago of several islands administered by the Republic of China government: Greater Kinmen , Lesser Kinmen , and some islets.... and Lienchiang Matsu Islands The Matsu Islands are a minor archipelago of 19 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait administered as Lienchiang County , Fujian Province, Republic of China of the Republic of China .... Designated as such due to its political status within the UN Political status of Taiwan The controversy regarding the political status of Taiwan hinges on whether Taiwan, including Penghu, should remain effectively independent as territory of the Republic of China , become Chinese reunification with the territories now governed by the People's Republic of China , or formally declare independence and become the Republic of Taiwa...
`TZISO 3166-2:TZ ISO 3166-2:TZis an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies tothe Tanzania.It covers the 26 regions mkoa ...`	Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....	1974
`UAISO 3166-2:UA ISO 3166-2:UA is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toUkraine.Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for...`	Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....	1974	Previous ISO country name: Ukrainian SSR (1974–1992)
`UGISO 3166-2:UG ISO 3166-2 codes for the 70 districts of Uganda.NewsletterISO 3166-2:2003-09-05ISO 3166-2:2007-11-28Codes ...`	Uganda Uganda The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....	1974
`UMISO 3166-2:UM ISO 3166-2:UM is the subset of the International Organization for Standardization sub-national region code standard ISO 3166-2 that pertains to the United States Minor Outlying Islands....`	United States Minor Outlying Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 code, consists of nine United States insular areas....	1986	Consisting of Baker Island Baker Island Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about 3,100 kilometers southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.... , Howland Island Howland Island Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 3,100 km southwest of Honolulu.... , Jarvis Island Jarvis Island Jarvis Island is an uninhabited 4.5 square kilometer coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at , about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands.... , Johnston Atoll Johnston Atoll Johnston Atoll is a 130 km? atoll in the Pacific Ocean at , about 1400 kilometers west of Hawaii. There are four islands located on the coral reef platform, two natural islands, Johnston Island and Sand Island, which have been expanded by coral dredging, as well as North Island and East Island , an additional two artificial islands... , Kingman Reef Kingman Reef Kingman Reef is a largely submerged uninhabited tropical atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at .... , Midway Atoll Midway Atoll Midway Atoll is a 2.4 square mile atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean , about one-third of the way between Honolulu and Tokyo. Midway Atoll is an unorganized territory, unincorporated territory of the United States.... , Navassa Island Navassa Island Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, and is an Incorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.... , Palmyra Atoll Palmyra Atoll Palmyra Atoll is an incorporated territory atoll administered by the Federal government of the United States. The atoll is 4.6 square miles , and it is located in the Northern Pacific Ocean at .... , and Wake Island Wake Island Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu to Guam ....
`USISO 3166-2:US ISO 3166-2:US is the subset of the International Organization for Standardization sub-national region code standard ISO 3166-2 that pertains to the United States of America....`	United States 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...	1974
`UYISO 3166-2:UY ISO 3166-2:UY is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes; it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Uruguay....`	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....	1974
`UZISO 3166-2:UZ ISO 3166-2:UZis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....	1992
`VA`	Holy See (Vatican City State) Vatican City Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a Landlocked country sovereignty city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the Capital of Italy....	1974	Territory of the Holy See Holy See The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church.... Previous ISO country name: Vatican City State (Holy See) (1974–1996)
`VCISO 3166-2:VC ISO 3166-2:VC is an ISO standard which defines geocodes. It is the subset of ISO 3166-2 that applies to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and a two-digit number....`	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean Sea. Its territory consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines....	1974
`VEISO 3166-2:VE ISO 3166-2:VEis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....	1974
`VG`	Virgin Islands, British British Virgin Islands The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands, the remaining islands constituting the United States Virgin Islands....	1974
`VI`	Virgin Islands, U.S. United States Virgin Islands The United States Virgin Islands is a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles....	1974
`VNISO 3166-2:VN ISO 3166-2:VNis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Viet Nam Vietnam Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....	1974
`VUISO 3166-2:VU ISO 3166-2:VU code for the provinces of Vanuatu. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Vanuatu Vanuatu Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and south of the Solomon Islands, near New Zealand....	1980	Name changed from New Hebrides New Hebrides New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the Pacific Ocean that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the United Kingdom and France in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands.... (`NH`)
`WF`	Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands , is a Polynesian French island territory in the Oceania between Fiji and Samoa....	1974
`WSISO 3166-2:WS ISO 3166-2:WS code for the districts of Samoa. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Samoa Samoa Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa , is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean....	1974	Code taken from former name: Western Samoa
`YEISO 3166-2:YE ISO 3166-2:YEis an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to...`	Yemen Yemen Yemen , officially the Republic of Yemen is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east....	1974	Previous ISO country name: Yemen, Republic of (1990–1993)
`YT`	Mayotte	1993
`ZAISO 3166-2:ZA ISO 3166-2:ZAis an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies toSouth Africa.It covers 9 provinces.Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for...`	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....	1974
`ZMISO 3166-2:ZM ISO 3166-2:ZM code for the provinces of Zambia. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Zambia Zambia The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....	1974
`ZWISO 3166-2:ZW ISO 3166-2:ZW code for the provinces of Zimbabwe. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such....`	Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east....	1980	Name changed from Southern Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colonies of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent on 11 November 1965. The name was also used with the establishment of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979.... (`RH`)

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 them in the updating process of the standard. The following alpha-2 codes can be user-assigned: AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ. For example:

UN/LOCODE
UN/LOCODE

UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, is a geocode developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe , a unit of the United Nations....
assigns XZ to represent Installations in International Waters
International waters

The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of Body of water transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems , and wetlands....
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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 ....
uses codes starting with X for non-country-specific currencies, such as XCD for the East Caribbean dollar
East Caribbean dollar

The East Caribbean dollar is the currency of eight of the nine members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. It has existed since 1965 and is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $ or, alternatively, EC$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies....
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Reserved code elements

Reserved code elements are codes which have recently become obsolete, or are in use for some applications in conjunction with the official ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO 3166/MA therefore reserves them, so that they are not used for new official codes during a limited or indeterminate period of time, thereby avoiding any transitional problems or conflicts between the ISO 3166-1 standard and those applications. The list of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 reserved code elements is divided into the following four categories.

Exceptional reservations

Exceptionally reserved code elements are codes reserved permanently at the request of national ISO member bodies, governments and international organizations because they are needed for particular purposes. The ISO 3166/MA only authorizes their use for the particular purpose for which they were established. The following alpha-2 codes are currently exceptionally reserved:

Alpha-2	Area name or country name	Notes
`AC`	Ascension Island Ascension Island Ascension Island is an isolated island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa, and from the coast of South America....	Reserved on request of UPU Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, and hence the world-wide postal system.... Currently used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .ac .ac .ac is the Internet country code top-level domain for Ascension Island. It is administered by NIC.AC, a subsidiary of the Internet Computer Bureau based in the United Kingdom....
`CP`	Clipperton Island Clipperton Island Clipperton Island is a nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at . It has no permanent inhabitants....	Reserved on request of ITU 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....
`DG`	Diego Garcia Diego Garcia Diego Garcia is the largest atoll, in terms of land area, in Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The island is located in the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 km south of the southern coast of India....	Reserved on request of ITU 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....
`EA`	Ceuta Ceuta Ceuta is an autonomous community#autonomous cities of Spain located on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean, which separates it from the Spanish mainland.... and Melilla Melilla Melilla is an autonomous cities of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast in North Africa. It was regarded as a part of M?laga prior to March 14, 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed....	Reserved on request of WCO World Customs Organization The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental organization that helps its members communicate and co-operate on customs issues. It was established in 1952 as the Customs Co-operation Council and adopted its current name in 1994.... to represent area outside EU customs territory
`EU`	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....	Originally reserved on request of 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 .... /MA to provide country code for Euro Euro The euro is the official currency of 16 out of 27 European Union member state of the European Union . The states, known collectively as the Eurozone are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.... Extended for use in ISO 6166 ISO 6166 International Organization for Standardization 6166 defines the structure of an International Securities Identifying Number . An ISIN uniquely identifies a fungible security.... "Securities – International securities identification numbering system (ISIN)" in 1998-03 Extended for any application needing to represent the name European Union in 1999-08 Currently used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .eu .eu .eu is the country code top-level domain for the European Union . Launched 7 December 2005, the domain is available for organisations and citizens in Member State of the European Union....
`FX`	France, Metropolitan Metropolitan France Metropolitan France is the part of France located in Europe, including Corsica. By contrast, French overseas departments and territories is the collective name for the French overseas departments , overseas territories , and overseas collectivity ....	Officially assigned 1993-06-18–1997-07-14 Reserved on request of France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
`IC`	Canary Islands Canary Islands The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union....	Reserved on request of WCO World Customs Organization The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental organization that helps its members communicate and co-operate on customs issues. It was established in 1952 as the Customs Co-operation Council and adopted its current name in 1994.... to represent area outside EU customs territory
`SU`	USSR Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....	Officially assigned 1974–1992-08-30 Transitionally reserved 1992-09–2008-06 Currently used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .su .su .su was assigned as the country code top-level domain for the Soviet Union on September 19, 1990. It remains in use today, even though the Soviet Union itself no longer exists, and is administered by the Russian Institute for Development of Public Networks ....
`TA`	Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2,816 km from South Africa and 3,360 km from South America....	Reserved on request of UPU Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, and hence the world-wide postal system....
`UK`	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....	Reserved on request of the United Kingdom Currently used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .uk .uk .uk is the Internet country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom. As of July 2008, it is the fifth most popular top-level domain worldwide , with over 7 million registrations.... , and by the European Commission European Commission The European Commission is the executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Treaties of the European Union and the general day-to-day running of the Union....

The following alpha-2 codes were exceptionally reserved, but are now officially assigned:

Alpha-2	Area name or country name	Notes	Date of official assignment
`AX`	Åland Åland The ?land Islands form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. It is situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and forms an Federacy, Demilitarized zone, Monoglottism Swedish language Provinces of Finland, Regions of Finland and historical provinces of Finland of Finland....	Reserved on request of Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....	2004-02-13
`GG`	Guernsey Guernsey The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Isles Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.As well as the island of Guernsey itself, it also includes Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and other islets....	Reserved on request of UPU Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, and hence the world-wide postal system.... Used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .gg .gg .gg is the country code top-level domain for Guernsey. It is administered by Island Networks.... when reserved	2006-03-29
`IM`	Isle of Man Isle of Man The Isle of Man , or Mann , is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles....	Reserved on request of UPU Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, and hence the world-wide postal system.... Used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .im .im .im is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Isle of Man. It is administered by the Government of the Isle of Man and managed on a day to day basis by Domicilium, an offshore Internet Service Provider based on the Isle of Man.... when reserved	2006-03-29
`JE`	Jersey Jersey The Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes the nearly uninhabited islands of the Minquiers, ?cr?hous, the Pierres de Lecq and other rocks and reefs....	Reserved on request of UPU Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, and hence the world-wide postal system.... Used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .je .je .je is the Internet country code top-level domain for Jersey. It is administered by Island Networks.External links*... when reserved	2006-03-29

Transitional reservations

Transitional reserved code elements are codes which were withdrawn from ISO 3166-1, but maintained during a transitional period of at least five years, for the sake of users who still need to refer to the former entity or whose systems have not yet been updated to refer to the new codes that may have replaced them. The following alpha-2 codes are currently transitionally reserved:

Alpha-2	Formerly used country name	Date of reservation	Notes
`BU`	Burma	1989-12
`CSISO 3166-2:CS ISO 3166-2:CS is an International Organization for Standardization standard which defines geocodes: it was the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applied to Serbia and Montenegro ....`	Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro , was a Political union of Serbia and Montenegro, which existed between 2003 and 2006. The two republics, both of which are former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, initially formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992....	2006-09	`CS` previously represented Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
`NT`	Neutral Zone Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone The Saudi?Iraqi neutral zone was an area of 7,044 km? on the border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq within which the border between the two countries had not been settled....	1993-07
`SF`	Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....	1995-09	Finland currently uses the code `FI`
`TP`	East Timor East Timor East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro Island and Jaco , and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor....	2002-05	Currently used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .tp .tp .tp was the listed Internet country code top-level domain for East Timor. The letters used refer to Timor Portugu?s or Portuguese Timor a legacy from the nation's previous status as a Portugal colony....
`YU`	Yugoslavia Yugoslavia File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....	2003-07	Currently used for the ccTLD Country code top-level domain TLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... .yu .yu .yu is the Internet country code top-level domain assigned to Yugoslavia.The .yu domain is administered by the YUNET Association, an organization based in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade....
`ZR`	Zaire Zaire The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971, and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo language word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers", and is often still used to refer to that state, perhaps because "Zai...	1997-07

Indeterminate reservations

Indeterminately reserved code elements are codes used to identify vehicles under the 1949 and 1968 United Nations

United Nations

International Driving Permit

An International Driving Permit allows an individual to drive a private motor vehicle in another nation when accompanied by a valid license from their home country....
. These codes differ from those used in ISO 3166-1. The ISO 3166/MA hopes that these codes will eventually be phased out and that ISO 3166-1 codes will be used instead; but in the meantime they are reserved, to avoid conflicts between ISO 3166-1 and the Conventions, and to facilitate any transition from the Convention codes to ISO 3166-1 codes. However, they can be reassigned at any time by the ISO 3166/MA. The following alpha-2 codes are currently indeterminately reserved:

Alpha-2	Area name or country name	Notes
`DY`	Benin Benin Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin....	Code notified to United Nations Secretary-General under 1949 and/or 1968 Road Traffic Conventions
`EW`	Estonia Estonia Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
`FL`	Liechtenstein Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a Landlocked country#Doubly landlocked country alpine country microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and by Austria to the east....	Code in use for road transport purposes, but not notified to United Nations Secretary-General under 1949 Road Traffic Convention
`JA`	Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....	Code under 1949 Road Traffic Convention
`LF`	Libya Fezzan Fezzan Fezzan is a south-western region of modern Libya. It is largely desert but broken by mountains, uplands, and dry river valleys in the north, where oases enable ancient towns and villages to survive deep in the otherwise inhospitable Sahara....
`PI`	Philippines Philippines The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
`RA`	Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
`RB`	Bolivia Bolivia The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west.... [cf. Botswana: identical code element]
`RB`	Botswana Botswana The Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland Protectorate, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 September 1966.... [cf. Bolivia: identical code element]
`RC`	China Republic of China The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
`RH`	Haiti Haiti Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
`RI`	Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
`RL`	Lebanon Lebanon Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
`RM`	Madagascar Madagascar Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....
`RN`	Niger Niger Niger , officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east....	Code under 1968 Road Traffic Convention
`RP`	Philippines Philippines The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
`WG`	Grenada Grenada Grenada is an island nation that includes the southern Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines....
`WL`	Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Saint Lucia is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique....
`WV`	Saint Vincent Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean Sea. Its territory consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines....
`YV`	Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....

The following alpha-2 codes were indeterminately reserved, but have been reassigned:

Alpha-2	Area name or country name	Code reassigned to
`LT`	Libya Tripoli Tripolitania Tripolitania or Tripolitana is a historic region and former province of Libya, situated alongside Cyrenaica and Fezzan). The system of administrative divisions that included Tripolitania was abolished in the early 1970s in favour of a system of smaller-size municipality or baladiyah ....	Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
`ME`	Western Sahara Western Sahara Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....	Montenegro Montenegro Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....
`RU`	Burundi Burundi Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the south and east, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west....	Russian Federation Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....

Notes

Codes currently agreed not to use

In addition, the ISO 3166/MA has undertaken, for the time being, not to use the following alpha-2 codes from WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....
Standard ST.3; however, these codes are not classified as either exceptional, transitional, or indeterminate reservations, since they represent international intellectual property organization

Intellectual property organization

Intellectual property organizations are organizations that are focused on copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property law concepts....
s, instead of the names of countries, territories, or areas of geographical interest:

Alpha-2	Organization name
`AP`	African Regional Intellectual Property Organization African Regional Intellectual Property Organization The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization , formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other industrial property matters....
`BX`	Benelux Trademarks and Design Offices Benelux Office for Intellectual Property The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property is the registration office for trademarks and designs in the Benelux. The BOIP was previously known as the Benelux Trademarks Office and the Benelux Designs Office ....
`EF`	Union of Countries under the European Community Patent Convention Community Patent The Community patent, also known as the European Community Patent or EC patent and sometimes abbreviated as COMPAT, is a patent law measure being debated within the European Union, which would allow individuals and companies to obtain a unitary patent throughout the European Union....
`EM`	European Trademark Office Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market , or OHIM is the trademark and industrial designs registry for the single market of the European Union....
`EP`	European Patent Organization European Patent Organisation The European Patent Organisation is a public international intellectual property organisation created in 1977 to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention of 1973....
`EV`	Eurasian Patent Organization Eurasian Patent Organization The Eurasian Patent Organization is a regional organization set up by the Eurasian Patent Convention . Its task is to grant Eurasian patents. The official language of the EAPO is Russian language and its current president is Alexander Grigoriev ....
`GC`	Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) GCC Patent Office The GCC Patent Office is an organ of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf with its patent office extablished in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
`IB`	International Bureau of WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....
`OA`	African Intellectual Property Organization Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle The *Organisation Africaine de la Propri?t? Intellectuelle* or OAPI is an intellectual property organization, headquartered in Yaound?, Cameroon....
`WO`	World Intellectual Property Organization World Intellectual Property Organization The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....

WIPO Standard ST.3 actually uses EA to represent the Eurasian Patent Organization

Eurasian Patent Organization

The Eurasian Patent Organization is a regional organization set up by the Eurasian Patent Convention . Its task is to grant Eurasian patents. The official language of the EAPO is Russian language and its current president is Alexander Grigoriev ....
. However, The ISO 3166/MA has stated it cannot guarantee to reserve EA from use, since it is already used to represent Ceuta

Ceuta

Ceuta is an autonomous community#autonomous cities of Spain located on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean, which separates it from the Spanish mainland....
and Melilla

Melilla

Melilla is an autonomous cities of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast in North Africa. It was regarded as a part of M?laga prior to March 14, 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed....
for customs purposes (EA is currently exceptionally reserved). The ISO 3166/MA proposed in 1995 that EV be used by WIPO to represent the Eurasian Patent Organization; however, this request was not honoured by WIPO.

Withdrawn codes

Besides the codes currently transitionally reserved, and FX and SU (currently exceptionally reserved), the following alpha-2 codes have also been withdrawn from ISO 3166-1:

Alpha-2	Formerly used country name	Code reassigned to
`AI`	French Afar and Issas French Territory of the Afars and the Issas The French Territory of Afars and Issas is the name given to the territory of present-day Republic of Djibouti during the France colonization between 1967 and independence in 1977....	Anguilla Anguilla Anguilla is a British overseas territories in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, approximately 26 km long by 5 km wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population....
`BQ`	British Antarctic Territory British Antarctic Territory The British Antarctic Territory is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom. It is situated in Antarctica from the South Pole to 60th parallel south between longitudes 20th meridian west and 80th meridian west....
`CS`	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....	Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro , was a Political union of Serbia and Montenegro, which existed between 2003 and 2006. The two republics, both of which are former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, initially formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992....
`CT`	Canton and Enderbury Islands Canton and Enderbury Islands The Canton and Enderbury Islands consist of the coral atolls of Canton and Enderbury Island in the northeastern part of the Phoenix Islands, about 1,850 miles south of Hawaii in the central Pacific Ocean....
`DD`	German Democratic Republic
`DY`	Dahomey Republic of Dahomey The Republic of Dahomey was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Prior to attaining autonomy it had been French Dahomey, part of the French Union....
`FQ`	French Southern and Antarctic Territories
`GE`	Gilbert and Ellice Islands Gilbert and Ellice Islands The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a United Kingdom protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1 January 1976 when the islands were divided into two different colonies which became independent nations shortly after....	Georgia Georgia (country) Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
`HV`	Upper Volta
`JT`	Johnston Island Johnston Atoll Johnston Atoll is a 130 km? atoll in the Pacific Ocean at , about 1400 kilometers west of Hawaii. There are four islands located on the coral reef platform, two natural islands, Johnston Island and Sand Island, which have been expanded by coral dredging, as well as North Island and East Island , an additional two artificial islands...
`MI`	Midway Islands Midway Atoll Midway Atoll is a 2.4 square mile atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean , about one-third of the way between Honolulu and Tokyo. Midway Atoll is an unorganized territory, unincorporated territory of the United States....
`NH`	New Hebrides New Hebrides New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the Pacific Ocean that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the United Kingdom and France in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands....
`NQ`	Dronning Maud Land Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land is an English translation of Dronning Maud Land, the official name in use by Norwegian authorities and British Antarctic Survey on the part of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory, on 14 January 1939....
`PC`	Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia administered by the United States from July 18, 1947, comprising the former South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations Mandate administered by Empire of Japan and taken by the U.S....
`PU`	U.S. Miscellaneous Pacific Islands United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands The United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands is an obsolete term used to collectively describe Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll, all of them territories controlled by the United States by the Guano Islands Act in the Pacific Ocean....
`PZ`	Panama Canal Zone Panama Canal Zone The Panama Canal Zone was a 553 square mile territory inside of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles on each side of the centerline ....
`RH`	Southern Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colonies of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent on 11 November 1965. The name was also used with the establishment of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979....
`SK`	Sikkim Sikkim Sikkim is a landlocked States and territories of India nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second-smallest in area after Goa....	Slovakia Slovakia Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
`VD`	Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of North Vietnam The Democratic Republic of Vietnam , or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic was an effective state all over Vietnam from 1945 until the partition of Vietnam in 1954....
`WK`	Wake Island Wake Island Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu to Guam ....
`YD`	Yemen, Democratic

After an alpha-2 code is withdrawn, an entry for the corresponding former country name will be added to ISO 3166-3

ISO 3166-3

ISO 3166-3 is part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for country names which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 since its first publication in 1974....
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Sources and external links

, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-d.html Appendix D – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes], from The World Factbook
The World Factbook

The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the List of countries....
(public domain), Central Intelligence Agency
, Statoids.com

(last modified: 2003-07-25)
, published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (2002-06-10)

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

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