ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter
country codes in the
ISO 3166-1 standard to represent
countries and
dependent territories. They are published by the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its
ISO 3166 standard. They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its first edition in 1974.
They are used in ISO/
IEC 7501-1 for
machine-readable passports.
Current codes
Officially assigned code elements
Below is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes, with country names being English short country names officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):
User-assigned code elements
The following alpha-3 codes can be user-assigned: from
AAA to
AAZ, from
QMA to
QZZ, from
XAA to
XZZ, and from
ZZA to
ZZZ. These code elements are 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.
Reserved code elements
Reserved code elements are codes which, while not ISO 3166-1 codes, are in use for some applications in conjunction with the ISO 3166 codes. The ISO 3166/MA therefore reserves them, so that they are not used for new official ISO 3166 codes, thereby creating conflicts between the standard and those applications.
Exceptional reservations
The following alpha-3 codes are subject to an exceptional reservation:
The following three codes were also under exceptional reservation, until the update from 2006-03-29 included them in the standard:
Transitional reservations
The following alpha-3 codes are subject to a transitional reservation:
Indeterminate reservations
The following alpha-3 codes are subject to an indeterminate reservation, having been notified to the
United Nations Secretary-General under the 1949 and/or 1968 Road Traffic Conventions:
The following code has been reassigned:
Codes currently agreed not to use
For the time being, ISO 3166/MA has agreed not to use the following codes, taken from ISO/IEC 7501-1 (machine readable travel documents), as alpha-3 country codes:
- GBD – British Dependent Territories Citizen
- GBN – British National (Overseas)
- GBO – British Overseas Citizen
- GBP – British Protected Person
- GBS – British Subject
- UNA – United Nations Specialized Agency Official
- UNK – Kosovo resident, issued travel document by UNMIK
- UNO – United Nations Official
Other withdrawn codes
Besides the codes currently
transitionally reserved and
FXX (now
exceptionally reserved), these alpha-3 codes have also been withdrawn since the first edition of ISO 3166 in 1974:
See also
Sources and external links
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is ISO 3166-1.
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<onlyinclude> ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent territories, and is published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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In political geography and international politics, a country is a political division of a geographical entity, a sovereign territory, most commonly associated with the notions of state or nation and government.
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country,
state, and
nation can have various meanings. Therefore, diverse lists of these entities are possible. Wikipedia offers the following lists:
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International Organization for Standardization (Organisation internationale de normalisation), widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.
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ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof, published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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The International Electrotechnical Commission[1] (IEC) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known
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machine readable passport (MRP) is a passport where the data on the identity page is encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue MRPs in the 1980s although the roll-out of the technology to smaller overseas missions was slow in many instances.
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"Virtus Unita Fortior" (Latin)
"Unity Provides Strength"
Anthem
Angola Avante! (Portuguese)
Forward Angola!
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Motto
"Strength and Endurance"
Anthem
God Save the Queen
National song: God Bless Anguilla 1
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Anthem
Rreth flamurit të përbashkuar''
("United Around the Flag")
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"Virtus Unita Fortior" (Latin)
"Strength United is Stronger"
Anthem
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MottoLibertate unanimus
(Latin: "Unified by freedom")
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En unión y libertad (Spanish)
"In Union and Freedom"
Anthem
Himno Nacional Argentino
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"Samoa, Muamua Le Atua" (Samoan)
"Samoa, Let God Be First"
Anthem
The Star-Spangled Banner, Amerika Samoa
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Capital Port-aux-Français
Official languages French
Government
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"Each Endeavouring, All Achieving"
Anthem
Fair Antigua and Barbuda
Royal anthem
God Save the Queen 1
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AnthemAdvance Australia Fair [1]Capital Canberra
Largest city Sydney
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Land der Berge, Land am Strome (German)
Land of Mountains, Land on the River
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Motto
none
Anthem
Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Himni
(March of Azerbaijan)
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Eendracht maakt macht (Dutch)
L'union fait la force" (French)
Einigkeit macht stark
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Motto
"Fraternité, Justice, Travail" (French)
"Fellowship, Justice, Labour"
Anthem
L'Aube Nouvelle (French)
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Motto
"Unité, Progrès, Justice" (French)
"Unity, Progress, Justice"
Anthem
Une Seule Nuit (French)
One Single Night
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