ISO 3166-1 .

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ISO 3166-2 - Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

1 For the following countries, a number of their subdivisions in ISO 3166-2, most of them dependent territory|

dependent territories, are also officially assigned their own country

codes in ISO 3166-1:


ISO 3166-1

1 'ISO 3166-1' is part of the ISO 3166 standardization|standard published by the

International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for the names of country|countries, dependent territory|

dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of

the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions ndash; Part 1: Country codes. It defines three

sets of country codes:


ISO 3166-1

1 * ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are the most widely used of the three, and used most prominently for the Internet's

country code top-level domains (with a few exceptions).


ISO 3166-1

1 * ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better

visual association between the codes and the country names than the

alpha-2 codes.


ISO 3166-1

1 * ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by

the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of script (writing system) independence, and hence useful for people or systems using non-Latin alphabet|Latin scripts.


ISO 3166-1

1 The alphabetic country codes were first included in ISO 3166 in 1974,

and the numeric country codes were first included in 1981. The country codes have been published as ISO 3166-1 since 1997, when ISO 3166 was expanded into three parts to include codes for subdivisions and

former countries.


ISO 3166-1

1 As a widely used international standard, ISO 3166-1 is implemented in other standards and used by international organizations, to allow

facilitation of the exchange of goods and information. However, it is not the only

standard for country codes. Country code#Other country codes|Other country

codes used by many international organizations are partly or totally incompatible

with ISO 3166-1, although some of them closely correspond to ISO 3166-1 codes.


ISO 3166-1 - Criteria for inclusion

1 Currently 249 countries, territories, or areas of geographical interest are assigned official codes in ISO 3166-1.

According to the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA), the only way to enter a new country name into ISO 3166-1 is to have it

registered in one of the following two sources:



1 Once a country name or territory name appears in either of these two sources, it will be added to ISO 3166-

1 by default.



1 The ISO 3166/MA may #Reserved and user-assigned code elements|reserve code elements for other entities that do not

qualify for inclusion based on the above criteria. For example, because the European

Union is not a country, it is not formally included in ISO 3166-1, but for practical

reasons, the ISO 3166/MA has reserved the two-letter combination EU for the purpose of

identifying the European Union within the framework of ISO 3166-1.


ISO 3166-1 - Naming and code construction

1 The country names used in ISO 3166-1 are taken from the two UN sources

mentioned above. Some country names used by the UN, and

accordingly by ISO, are subject to dispute:


ISO 3166-1 - Naming and code construction

1 *Following the United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19|recognition of Palestine as a non-

member UN state in 2012, the official designation used in ISO 3166-1 was changed from Palestinian territories|

Palestinian Territory, Occupied to State of Palestine|Palestine, State of.


ISO 3166-1 - Information included

1 ISO 3166-1 is published officially in both English language|English and French language|French. Since the second edition of ISO 3166-1, the following columns are included for

each entry:


ISO 3166-1 - Officially assigned code elements

1 The following is a complete ISO 3166-1 encoding list of the countries which are

assigned official codes. It is listed in alphabetical order by the English short country

name (upper/lower case) used by the ISO 3166/MA.– Note: The source actually shows only

the Country Name element, in all upper-case. The table here has been upper/lower-cased per

Wikipedia standards, but should closely resemble the upper/lower-case elements that

are not freely available from the ISO.


ISO 3166-1 - Officially assigned code elements

1 Click on the button in the header to sort each column. For more

information on each country and the assignment of its code elements,

click on its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#Officially assigned code elements|

alpha-2 code.


ISO 3166-1 - Reserved and user-assigned code elements

1 Reserved code elements are codes which have become obsolete, or are

required in order to enable a particular user application of the standard but do not qualify for

inclusion in ISO 3166-1



1 * ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#Reserved code elements|Alpha-2: ISO 3166-1 alpha-

2#Exceptional reservations|exceptional reservations, ISO 3166-1

alpha-2#Transitional reservations|transitional reservations, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#Indeterminate reservations|indeterminate reservations, and ISO

3166-1 alpha-2#Codes currently agreed not to use|codes currently

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1 * ISO 3166-1 alpha-3#Reserved code elements|Alpha-3: ISO 3166-1 alpha-

3#Exceptional reservations|exceptional reservations, ISO 3166-1

alpha-3#Transitional reservations|transitional reservations, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3#Indeterminate reservations|indeterminate reservations, and ISO

3166-1 alpha-3#Codes currently agreed not to use|codes currently

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1 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 these codes in the updating process of the standard. The following codes can be

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1 * ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#User-assigned code elements|Alpha-2: AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ,

and ZZ



1 * ISO 3166-1 alpha-3#User-assigned code elements|Alpha-3: AAA to AAZ, QMA to QZZ, XAA to XZZ, and ZZA to

ZZZ



1 * ISO 3166-1 numeric#User-assigned code elements|

Numeric: 900 to 999


ISO 3166-1 - Changes

1 Note that following the latest update of ISO website, newsletters issued

before ISO 3166-1:2006 are unavailable.


Country code top-level domain - Unused ISO 3166-1 codes

1 Almost all current ISO 3166-1 codes have been assigned and do exist in

DNS.


Country code top-level domain - Unused ISO 3166-1 codes

1 The code .eh|eh, although eligible as ccTLD for Western Sahara, has never been assigned and does not exist in

Domain Name System|DNS. Only one subdomain is still registered in .gb|gb (ISO 3166-1 for the United Kingdom) and no new registrations are being accepted for it. Sites in the United Kingdom generally use .uk|uk (see

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Country code top-level domain - ASCII ccTLDs not in ISO 3166-1

1 Several ASCII ccTLDs are in use that are not ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes. Some of these codes were specified

in older versions of the ISO list.



1 * .uk|uk (United Kingdom): The ISO 3166-1 code for the United Kingdom is GB. However, the JANET network had already selected uk as a top-level identifier for its pre-existing

JANET NRS|Name Registration Scheme, and this was incorporated

into the DNS root. .gb|gb was assigned with the intention of a

transition, but this never occurred and the use of uk is now entrenched.



1 * .ac|ac (Ascension Island): This code is a vestige of Internet Assigned Numbers

Authority|IANA's decision in 1996 to allow the use of codes reserved in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-

2 reserve list for use by the Universal Postal Union. The decision was later reversed, with Ascension Island now the sole outlier. (Three other ccTLDs, .gg|gg (Guernsey), .im|im (Isle of Man) and .je|je (Jersey) also fell under this

category from 1996 until they received corresponding ISO 3166 codes in March 2006.)



1 * .eu|eu (European Union): On September 25, 2000, ICANN decided

to allow the use of any two-letter code in the ISO 3166-1 reserve list

that is reserved for all purposes



1 * .tp|tp (the previous ISO 3166-1 code for East Timor): Being phased

out in favor of .tl|tl since 2005.


ISO 3166-2:CN - Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

1 Besides being included as subdivisions of China in ISO 3166-2, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao are also officially assigned their own

country codes in ISO 3166-1


ISO 3166-2:CN - Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

1 In ISO 3166-1, Taiwan is listed under the country name Taiwan, Province of China.


ISO 3166-1 numeric

1 'ISO 3166-1 numeric' (or 'numeric-3') codes are three-digit

country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standardization|

standard published by the International Organization for

Standardization (ISO), to represent country|countries, dependent

territory|dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest


ISO 3166-1 numeric

1 The ISO 3166-1 alphabetic codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2|alpha-2 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3|alpha-3) use letters from the English alphabet and are

suitable for languages based on the Latin alphabet


ISO 3166-1 numeric - Officially assigned code elements

1 The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1

numeric codes, using the English short country names officially used

by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):


ISO 3166-1 numeric - Deleted codes

1 The following numeric codes have been deleted from ISO

3166-1:



1 The following numeric codes were also assigned by the United Nations

Statistics Division, but these territories were never officially

included in ISO 3166-1:



1 In the UN M.49 standard developed by the United Nations Statistics

Division, additional numeric codes are used to represent geographical regions and groupings of countries and areas for statistical processing purposes, but these codes are not

included in ISO 3166-1. Unlike alphabetic codes, there are no

reserved numeric codes in ISO 3166-1.


ISO 3166-2:US - Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

1 Besides being included as subdivisions of the United States in ISO 3166-2, the outlying areas are also officially assigned their own

country codes in ISO 3166-1.


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

1 They allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2|alpha-2 codes (the third set

of codes is ISO 3166-1 numeric|numeric and hence offers no visual

association)


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 - Uses and applications

1 The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are used most prominently in

ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports, as standardized

by the International Civil Aviation Organization, with a number of

additional codes for special passports; some of these codes are currently #Codes currently agreed

not to use|reserved and not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.



1 The United Nations 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 List of international vehicle

registration codes|international vehicle registration codes, which are codes used to

identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate; some of these codes are

currently #Indeterminate reservations|indeterminately reserved in ISO 3166-1.


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 - Officially assigned code elements

1 The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1

alpha-3 codes, using the English short country names officially

defined by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 - Exceptional reservations

1 * FXX Metropolitan France|France, Metropolitan mdash; Reserved on

request of France; Officially assigned before being deleted from ISO 3166-

1


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 - Exceptional reservations

1 * SUN Soviet Union|USSR mdash; From June 2008; Transitionally

reserved from September 1992; Officially assigned before being

deleted from ISO 3166-1


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 - Transitional reservations

1 Transitional reserved code elements are codes reserved after their deletion from

ISO 3166-1. These codes may be used only during a transitional period of at least five years while new code elements that may have replaced them are taken into use.

These codes may be reassigned by the ISO 3166/MA after the expiration of the

transitional period. The following alpha-3 codes are currently transitionally reserved:


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 - Indeterminate reservations

1 These code elements are expected eventually to be either eliminated or

replaced by code elements within ISO 3166-1


ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 - Deleted codes

1 Besides the codes currently #Transitional reservations|

transitionally reserved and two other codes currently #Exceptional

reservations|exceptionally reserved (FXX for Metropolitan France|France,

Metropolitan and SUN for Soviet Union|USSR), the following alpha-3 codes have also been deleted from

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

1 They are the most widely used of the country codes published by ISO (the

others being ISO 3166-1 alpha-3|alpha-3 and ISO 3166-1 numeric|

numeric), and are used most prominently for the Internet's country

code top-level domains (with a few exceptions)



1 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.


ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 - Imperfect implementations

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

level domains (ccTLDs). The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

currently assigns the ccTLDs mostly following the alpha-2 codes, but with a few exceptions. For example, the

United Kingdom, whose alpha-2 code is GB, uses .uk instead of .gb as its

ccTLD, as UK is currently #Exceptional reservations|

exceptionally reserved in ISO 3166-1 on the request of the United

Kingdom.



1 The World Intellectual Property Organization|WIPO coding standard ST.3 is based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

codes, but includes a number of additional codes for international

intellectual property organizations, which are currently #Codes currently agreed not to use|reserved and not

used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.



1 The European Commission generally uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes with two exceptions: EL (not GR) is used

to represent Greece, and UK (not GB) is used to represent the United

Kingdom



1 The United Nations uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3|

alpha-3 codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO 3166, for List of international vehicle registration codes|international vehicle registration codes,

which are codes used to identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate; some

of these codes are currently #Indeterminate reservations|

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1 Under the newer stability policies, old assigned codes that have been

withdrawn from ISO 3166-1 should no longer be reassigned to another

country or territory (like it occurred in the past for CS)


ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 - Decoding table

1 The following is a colour-coded decoding table of all ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.


ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 - Officially assigned code elements

1 The following is a complete list of the 249 current officially assigned ISO

3166-1 alpha-2 codes, with the following columns:


Country code - ISO 3166-1

1 *a three-digit numeric (ISO 3166-1 numeric)

code.


ISO 3166-2:FR - Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

1 Besides being included as subdivisions of France in ISO 3166-2,

the overseas departments and overseas territorial collectivities are

also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.



1 The dependency Clipperton Island (FR-CP) is also ISO 3166-1 alpha-

2#Exceptional reservations|exceptionally reserved the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CP on the request of the International Telecommunication

Union.



1 Metropolitan France (the part of France located in Europe) was

previously officially assigned its own set of country codes in ISO 3166-1, with alpha-2 code FX, before it was

deleted from ISO 3166-1. The code is now exceptionally reserved on the

request of France.


IETF language tag - ISO 3166-1 and UN M.49

1 Two-letter region subtags are based on codes assigned, or exceptionally reserved, in ISO

3166-1. If the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency were to reassign a code that had previously

been assigned to a different country, the existing BCP 47 subtag corresponding to that

code would retain its meaning, and a new region subtag based on UN M.49 would be registered for the new country. UN M.49 is also the source

for numeric region subtags for geographical regions, such as 005 for South America.


Table of administrative divisions by country - Administrative divisions with ISO 3166-1

1 Administrative divisions with ISO 3166-1 are cited for statistics

matters even when they do not have a special status (for example, the

overseas regions of France).


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