WIPO ST.3 is the World Intellectual Property Organization

World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 17 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 for the two-letter codes of countries and other organizations, such as regional intellectual-property organizations. It generally follows ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names...

 except for the non-country entries.

Current Codes

Rows in blue are not present in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1...

. Rows in yellow are different from ISO 3166-2. Codes AA, QM to QY, XA to XM, XO to XZ and ZZ are available for individual or provisional use.

English country/organization short name	WIPO ST.3 code	ISO 3166-2 Alpha-2 code
Afghanistan	AF	AF
Albania	AL	AL
Algeria	DZ	DZ
Andorra	AD	AD
Angola	AO	AO
Anguilla	AI	AI
Antigua and Barbuda	AG	AG
Argentina	AR	AR
Armenia	AM	AM
Aruba	AW	AW
Australia	AU	AU
Austria	AT	AT
Azerbaijan	AZ	AZ
The Bahamas	BS	BS
Bahrain	BH	BH
Bangladesh	BD	BD
Barbados	BB	BB
Belarus	BY	BY
Belgium	BE	BE
Belize	BZ	BZ
Benin	BJ	BJ
Bermuda	BM	BM
Bhutan	BT	BT
	BO	BO
BES islands	BQ	BQ
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	BA
Botswana	BW	BW
Bouvet Island	BV	BV
Brazil	BR	BR
Brunei	BN	BN
Kingdom of Bulgaria	BG	BG
Burkina Faso	BF	BF
Burundi	BI	BI
Cambodia	KH	KH
Cameroon	CM	CM
Canada	CA	CA
Cape Verde	CV	CV
Cayman Islands	KY	KY
Central African Republic	CF	CF
Chad	TD	TD
Chile	CL	CL
Mainland China	CN	CN
Colombia	CO	CO
Comoros	KM	KM
Republic of the Congo	CG	CG
	CD	CD
Cook Islands	CK	CK
Costa Rica	CR	CR
	CI	CI
Independent State of Croatia	HR	HR
Cuba	CU	CU
Curaçao	CW	CW
Cyprus	CY	CY
Czech Republic	CZ	CZ
Denmark	DK	DK
Djibouti	DJ	DJ
Dominica	DM	DM
Dominican Republic	DO	DO
Ecuador	EC	EC
Egypt	EG	EG
El Salvador	SV	SV
Equatorial Guinea	GQ	GQ
Eritrea	ER	ER
Estonia	EE	EE
Ethiopia	ET	ET
	FK	FK
Faroe Islands	FO	FO
Fiji	FJ	FJ
Finland	FI	FI
Early Modern France	FR	FR
Gabon	GA	GA
The Gambia	GM	GM
Georgia (country)	GE	GE
Germany	DE	DE
Ghana	GH	GH
Gibraltar	GI	GI
Greece	GR	GR
Greenland	GL	GL
Grenada	GD	GD
Guatemala	GT	GT
Guernsey	GG	GG
Guinea	GN	GN
Guinea-Bissau	GW	GW
Guyana	GY	GY
Haiti	HT	HT
	VA	VA
Honduras	HN	HN
Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China	HK	HK
Hungary	HU	HU
Iceland	IS	IS
India	IN	IN
Indonesia	ID	ID
	IR	IR
Iraq	IQ	IQ
Republic of Ireland	IE	IE
Isle of Man	IM	IM
Israel	IL	IL
Italy	IT	IT
Jamaica	JM	JM
Japan	JP	JP
Jersey	JE	JE
Jordan	JO	JO
Kazakhstan	KZ	KZ
Kenya	KE	KE
Kiribati	KI	KI
	KP	KP
	KR	KR
Kuwait	KW	KW
Kyrgyzstan	KG	KG
	LA	LA
Latvia	LV	LV
Lebanon	LB	LB
Lesotho	LS	LS
Liberia	LR	LR
	LY	LY
Liechtenstein	LI	LI
Lithuania	LT	LT
Luxembourg	LU	LU
Macau	MO	MO
	MK	MK
Madagascar	MG	MG
Malawi	MW	MW
Malaysia	MY	MY
Maldives	MV	MV
Mali	ML	ML
Malta	MT	MT
Mauritania	MR	MR
Mauritius	MU	MU
Mexico	MX	MX
	MD	MD
Monaco	MC	MC
Mongolia	MN	MN
Kingdom of Montenegro	ME	ME
Montserrat	MS	MS
Morocco	MA	MA
Mozambique	MZ	MZ
Myanmar	MM	MM
Namibia	NA	NA
Nauru	NR	NR
Nepal	NP	NP
Netherlands	NL	NL
New Zealand	NZ	NZ
Nicaragua	NI	NI
Niger	NE	NE
Nigeria	NG	NG
Northern Mariana Islands	MP	MP
Norway	NO	NO
Oman	OM	OM
Pakistan	PK	PK
Palau	PW	PW
Panama	PA	PA
Papua New Guinea	PG	PG
Paraguay	PY	PY
Peru	PE	PE
Philippines	PH	PH
Poland	PL	PL
Portugal	PT	PT
Qatar	QA	QA
Kingdom of Romania	RO	RO
Russia	RU	RU
Rwanda	RW	RW
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	SH	SH
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KN	KN
Saint Lucia	LC	LC
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	VC	VC
Samoa	WS	WS
San Marino	SM	SM
	ST	ST
Saudi Arabia	SA	SA
Senegal	SN	SN
Serbia	RS	RS
Seychelles	SC	SC
Sierra Leone	SL	SL
Singapore	SG	SG
	SX	SX
Slovakia	SK	SK
Slovenia	SI	SI
Solomon Islands	SB	SB
Somalia	SO	SO
South Africa	ZA	ZA
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	GS	GS
	SS	SS
Spain	ES	ES
Sri Lanka	LK	LK
Sudan	SD	SD
Suriname	SR	SR
Swaziland	SZ	SZ
Sweden	SE	SE
Switzerland	CH	CH
	SY	SY
Taiwan, Province of China Taiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...	TW	TW
Tajikistan	TJ	TJ
	TZ	TZ
Thailand	TH	TH
East Timor	TL	TL
Togo	TG	TG
Tonga	TO	TO
Trinidad and Tobago	TT	TT
Tunisia	TN	TN
Turkey	TR	TR
Turkmenistan	TM	TM
Turks and Caicos Islands	TC	TC
Tuvalu	TV	TV
Uganda	UG	UG
Ukraine	UA	UA
United Arab Emirates	AE	AE
United Kingdom	GB	GB
United States	US	US
Uruguay	UY	UY
Uzbekistan	UZ	UZ
Vanuatu	VU	VU
	VE	VE
Vietnam	VN	VN
British Virgin Islands	VG	VG
Western Sahara Western Sahara Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its surface area amounts to . It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly...	EH	EH
Yemen	YE	YE
Zambia	ZM	ZM
Zimbabwe	ZW	ZW