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The codes are used in different environments and are also part of other standards. In some cases there are not perfectly implemented.
The two-letter ISO 3166-1 codes form the first two letters of the three-letter ISO 4217 standard codes for currencies.
It is used in International Bank Account Numbers, the ISO 6166 International securities identification numbering ( ISIN) system, ISO 7372 , ISO 9375 , the ISO/IEC 7501-1 machine readable travel documents standard, UN/LOCODE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Recommendation 16, for encoding names of ports).
Starting in 1985, the two-letter codes have been used in domain names on the Internet, where they are used to form country code ccTLDs, with some exceptions e.g. United Kingdom, where the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority did not follow the ISO 3166-1 and used UK instead of GB. For a complete list of exceptions, see the top-level domain article.
WIPO standard ST.3 (for encoding country which issued a patent or trademark).Changes to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 are tracked by ISO 3166-3.
Note that AA, ZZ and the ranges QM-QZ and XA-XZ are reserved for private use. If a country code cannot be found in the list then it is probably obsolete, in which case it should be found in the list of obsolete country codes, further below.
The following is intended to be a complete list of current ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes.
| Alpha-2 | Country |
|---|---|
| AD | AndorraAndorra is a very small landlocked principality in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by France and Spain. Once isolated, it is currently a prosperous country mainly because of tourism and its status as a tax haven |
| AE | United Arab EmiratesThe United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich desert country situated in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Qaiwain. Before 1971, they were |
| AF | AfghanistanAfghanistan ( Dari/ Pashtu: Afgnistn is a country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the easternmost part of the country. It is among the |
| AG | Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda is an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago with the island of Guadeloupe to the south, Montserrat to the southwest, |
| AI | AnguillaAlternative meaning Anguilla is a genus of freshwater eel (sole genus in the family Anguillidae). Anguilla or Snake is an island in the eastern Caribbean and is a British dependency with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, represented by a Governor. (AI previously represented French Afars and Issas) |
| AL | AlbaniaAlbania is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro in the north, Serbia ( Kosovo) in the north-east, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south, has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ion |
| AM | Armenia |
| AN | Netherlands Antilles |
| AO | Angola |
| AQ | Antarctica (defined here as everything south of latitude 60°S) |
| AR | Argentina |
| AS | American Samoa |
| AT | Austria |
| AU | Australia (including Ashmore and Cartier Islands and Coral Sea Islands) |
| AW | Aruba |
| AX | Åland Islands |
| AZ | Azerbaijan |
| BA | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| BB | Barbados |
| BD | Bangladesh |
| BE | Belgium |
| BF | Burkina Faso |
| BG | Bulgaria |
| BH | Bahrain |
| BI | Burundi |
| BJ | Benin |
| BM | Bermuda |
| BN | Brunei Darussalam |
| BO | Bolivia |
| BR | Brazil |
| BS | Bahamas |
| BT | Bhutan |
| BV | Bouvet Island |
| BW | Botswana |
| BY | Belarus (formerly Byelorussia) |
| BZ | Belize |
| CA | Canada |
| CC | Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
| CD | Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) |
| CF | Central African Republic |
| CG | Congo (Republic of the Congo) |
| CH | Switzerland ( Confoederatio Helvetica) |
| CI | Côte d'Ivoire (formerly Ivory Coast) |
| CK | Cook Islands |
| CL | Chile |
| CM | Cameroon |
| CN | China (People's Republic of China) |
| CO | Colombia |
| CR | Costa Rica |
| CS | Serbia and Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia) (CS previously represented Czechoslovakia) |
| CU | Cuba |
| CV | Cape Verde |
| CX | Christmas Island |
| CY | Cyprus |
| CZ | Czech Republic |
| DE | Germany (Deutschland) |
| DJ | Djibouti |
| DK | Denmark |
| DM | Dominica |
| DO | Dominican Republic |
| DZ | Algeria |
| EC | Ecuador |
| EE | Estonia |
| EG | Egypt |
| EH | Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara) |
| ER | Eritrea |
| ES | Spain ( España) |
| ET | Ethiopia |
| FI | Finland |
| FJ | Fiji |
| FK | Falkland Islands |
| FM | Federated States of Micronesia |
| FO | Faroe Islands |
| FR | France |
| GA | Gabon |
| GB | United Kingdom (including Isle of Man and Channel Islands) |
| GD | Grenada |
| GE | Georgia (GE previously represented the Gilbert and Ellice Islands) |
| GF | French Guiana |
| GH | Ghana |
| GI | Gibraltar |
| GL | Greenland |
| GM | Gambia |
| GN | Guinea |
| GP | Guadeloupe |
| GQ | Equatorial Guinea |
| GR | Greece |
| GS | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
| GT | Guatemala |
| GU | Guam |
| GW | Guinea-Bissau |
| GY | Guyana |
| HK | Hong Kong |
| HM | Heard Island and McDonald Islands |
| HN | Honduras |
| HR | Croatia ( Hrvatska) |
| HT | Haiti |
| HU | Hungary |
| ID | Indonesia |
| IE | Ireland |
| IL | Israel |
| IN | India |
| IO | British Indian Ocean Territory (including Diego Garcia) |
| IQ | Iraq |
| IR | Iran |
| IS | Iceland |
| IT | Italy |
| JM | Jamaica |
| JO | Jordan |
| JP | Japan |
| KE | Kenya |
| KG | Kyrgyzstan |
| KH | Cambodia |
| KI | Kiribati |
| KM | Comoros |
| KN | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| KP | Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) |
| KR | Republic of Korea (South Korea) |
| KW | Kuwait |
| KY | Cayman Islands |
| KZ | Kazakhstan |
| LA | Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) |
| LB | Lebanon |
| LC | Saint Lucia |
| LI | Liechtenstein |
| LK | Sri Lanka |
| LR | Liberia |
| LS | Lesotho |
| LT | Lithuania |
| LU | Luxembourg |
| LV | Latvia |
| LY | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) |
| MA | Morocco |
| MC | Monaco |
| MD | Moldova |
| MG | Madagascar |
| MH | Marshall Islands |
| MK | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| ML | Mali |
| MM | Myanmar ( Burma) |
| MN | Mongolia |
| MO | Macao (Macau) |
| MP | Northern Mariana Islands |
| MQ | Martinique |
| MR | Mauritania |
| MS | Montserrat |
| MT | Malta |
| MU | Mauritius |
| MV | Maldives |
| MW | Malawi |
| MX | Mexico |
| MY | Malaysia |
| MZ | Mozambique |
| NA | Namibia |
| NC | New Caledonia |
| NE | Niger |
| NF | Norfolk Island |
| NG | Nigeria |
| NI | Nicaragua |
| NL | Netherlands |
| NO | Norway |
| NP | Nepal |
| NR | Nauru |
| NU | Niue |
| NZ | New Zealand |
| OM | Oman |
| PA | Panama |
| PE | Peru |
| PF | French Polynesia (including Clipperton Island) |
| PG | Papua New Guinea |
| PH | Philippines |
| PK | Pakistan |
| PL | Poland |
| PM | Saint-Pierre and Miquelon |
| PN | Pitcairn Islands |
| PR | Puerto Rico |
| PS | Palestinian Territories (i.e., West Bank and Gaza Strip) |
| PT | Portugal |
| PW | Palau |
| PY | Paraguay |
| QA | Qatar |
| RE | Réunion |
| RO | Romania |
| RU | Russia |
| RW | Rwanda |
| SA | Saudi Arabia |
| SB | Solomon Islands |
| SC | Seychelles |
| SD | Sudan |
| SE | Sweden |
| SG | Singapore |
| SH | Saint Helena (including Ascension Island and other dependencies) |
| SI | Slovenia |
| SJ | Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands |
| SK | Slovakia (SK previously represented Sikkim) |
| SL | Sierra Leone |
| SM | San Marino |
| SN | Senegal |
| SO | Somalia |
| SR | Suriname |
| ST | São Tomé and Príncipe |
| SV | El Salvador |
| SY | Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) |
| SZ | Swaziland |
| TC | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| TD | Chad (Tchad) |
| TF | French Southern Territories |
| TG | Togo |
| TH | Thailand |
| TJ | Tajikistan |
| TK | Tokelau |
| TL | Timor-Leste (East Timor) |
| TM | Turkmenistan |
| TN | Tunisia |
| TO | Tonga |
| TR | Turkey |
| TT | Trinidad and Tobago |
| TV | Tuvalu |
| TW | Taiwan (Republic of China) |
| TZ | United Republic of Tanzania |
| UA | Ukraine |
| UG | Uganda |
| UM | United States Minor Outlying Islands |
| US | United States |
| UY | Uruguay |
| UZ | Uzbekistan |
| VA | Holy See ( Vatican City State) |
| VC | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| VE | Venezuela |
| VG | British Virgin Islands |
| VI | U.S. Virgin Islands |
| VN | Viet Nam (Vietnam) |
| VU | Vanuatu |
| WF | Wallis and Futuna |
| WS | Samoa (formerly Western Samoa) |
| YE | Yemen |
| YT | Mayotte |
| ZA | South Africa (Zuid Afrika) |
| ZM | Zambia |
| ZW | Zimbabwe |