ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 as part of the ISO 3166 standard provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. It was first published in 1974 by the International Organization for Standardization and defines three different codes for each area:

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a two-letter system, has many applications, most notably for Internet top-level domains. Standards derived from this code are:
* ISO 3166-2, codes for subdivisions such as states and provinces.
* ISO 3166-3, codes to replace obsolete alpha-2 codes.
* ISO 4217, codes for monetary units.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, a three-letter system.
ISO 3166-1 numeric, a three-digit numerical system, is identical to that defined by the United Nations Statistical Division.

A country or territory generally gets new alpha codes if its name changes, whereas a new numeric code is associated with a change of boundaries. Some codes in each series are reserved, for various reasons.

ISO 3166-1 is not the only standard for country codes.

The following is intended to be a complete ISO 3166-1 code list in alphabetical order by country name (encoding list).

Newsletters

Changes to ISO 3166-1 are announced in periodic newsletters, of which 10 have been released to date:

Published 1998-02-05: change of name for Samoa, available in English and French

Published 1999-10-01: change of name for Occupied Palestinian Territory, available in English and French

Published 2002-02-01: change of alpha-3 Code Element for Romania, available in English and French

Published 2002-05-20: change of name for various countries, available in English and French

Published 2002-05-20: change of name and codes for East Timor, available in English and French

Published 2002-11-15: change of name and codes for Timor-Leste, available in English and French

Published 2002-11-15: change of official name of Comoros , available in English and French

Published 2003-07-23: deletion of Yugoslavia, inclusion of Serbia and Montenegro, available in English and French

Published 2004-02-13: new entry for Åland Islands, available in English and French

Published 2004-04-26: change of name for Afghanistan and Åland Islands, available in English and French

Reference

Information on reserved codes taken from "Reserved code elements under ISO 3166-1" published by Secretariat of ISO/TC 46, ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, 2001-02-13, available on request from ISO 3166 MA.

External links

ISO 3166/MA – ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency at the International Standards Organization – includes up-to-date lists of two-letter codes.

United Nations Statistics Division – Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use – includes three-letter and numeric codes.

CIA World Factbook – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes (public domain)

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