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It is published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard and uses the 3-digit country codes developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division. New numeric-3 codes reflect changes in country boundaries not country names.
A major advantage of numeric-3 codes over the ISO 3166 letter-based codes is script (writing system) independence.
The letter-based codes used in ISO 3166 rely on Latin alphabet characters found in English and western European languages.
For people and systems using non-Latin scripts ( writing systems) – e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Sanskrit – Latin alphabet characters may be unavailable or difficult to use, understand or correctly interpret.
Numeric-based codes overcome these problems of script dependence.
Listing of ISO 3166 numeric-3 codes with country name
004 Afghanistan 008 Albania 010 Antarctica 012 Algeria 016 American Samoa 020 Andorra 024 Angola 028 Antigua and Barbuda 031 Azerbaijan 032 Argentina 036 AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count 040 AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the 044 BahamasThe Commonwealth of The Bahamas is an independent English-speaking nation in the West Indies. An archipelago of 700 islands and cays (which are small islands), the Bahamas is located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida in the United States, north of Cu 048 BahrainThe Kingdom of Bahrain or Bahrain is a borderless country in the Persian Gulf ( Southwest Asia/ Middle East, Asia). Saudi Arabia is to the west and is connected to Bahrain by a causeway, and Qatar is to the south across the Gulf of Bahrain. History Main a 050 BangladeshThe People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia that forms the eastern part of the ancient region of Bengal. Bangladesh literally means "The Country of Bengal". Lying north of the Bay of Bengal, on land it borders India almost exclusively, 051 ArmeniaArmenia ( Armenian: ''Hayastan is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in th 052 BarbadosBarbados is an island nation situated on the boundary of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. One of the Lesser Antilles, it lies to the east of the main chain of islands. History Main article: History of Barbados Barbados was uninhabited when first 056 BelgiumFor alternate meanings, see Belgium (disambiguation). Belgian redirects here. For the horse breed commonly used as a draft horse, see Belgian. The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Belgi French: Belgique German: Belgien is a country in Western Europe, bordered 060 Bermuda 064 Bhutan 068 Bolivia 070 Bosnia and Herzegovina 072 Botswana 074 Bouvet Island 076 Brazil 084 Belize 086 British Indian Ocean Territory 090 Solomon Islands 092 Virgin Islands, British 096 Brunei Darussalam 100 Bulgaria 104 Myanmar 108 Burundi 112 Belarus 116 Cambodia 120 Cameroon 124 Canada 132 Cape Verde 136 Cayman Islands 140 Central African Republic 144 Sri Lanka 148 Chad 152 Chile 156 China, mainland 158 Taiwan (Republic of China) 162 Christmas Island 166 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 170 Colombia 174 Comoros 175 Mayotte 178 Congo, Republic of the 180 Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The 184 Cook Islands 188 Costa Rica 191 Croatia 192 Cuba 196 Cyprus 203 Czech Republic 204 Benin 208 Denmark 212 Dominica 214 Dominican Republic 218 Ecuador 222 El Salvador 226 Equatorial Guinea 231 Ethiopia 232 Eritrea 233 Estonia 234 Faroe Islands 238 Falkland Islands 239 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 242 Fiji 246 Finland 248 Åland Islands 250 France 254 French Guiana 258 French Polynesia 260 French Southern Territories 262 Djibouti 266 Gabon 268 Georgia 270 Gambia 275 Palestinian Territory, Occupied 276 Germany 288 Ghana 292 Gibraltar 296 Kiribati 300 Greece 304 Greenland 308 Grenada 312 Guadeloupe 316 Guam 320 Guatemala 324 Guinea 328 Guyana 332 Haiti 334 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 336 Vatican City State 340 Honduras 344 Hong Kong 348 Hungary 352 Iceland 356 India 360 Indonesia 364 Iran, Islamic Republic of 368 Iraq 372 Ireland, Republic of 376 Israel 380 Italy 384 Côte d'Ivoire 388 Jamaica 392 Japan 398 Kazakhstan 400 Jordan 404 Kenya 408 Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 410 Korea, Republic of 414 Kuwait 417 Kyrgyzstan 418 Lao People's Democratic Republic 422 Lebanon 426 Lesotho 428 Latvia 430 Liberia 434 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 438 Liechtenstein 440 Lithuania 442 Luxembourg 446 Macao 450 Madagascar 454 Malawi 458 Malaysia 462 Maldives 466 Mali 470 Malta 474 Martinique 478 Mauritania 480 Mauritius 484 Mexico 492 Monaco 496 Mongolia 498 Moldova, Republic of 500 Montserrat 504 Morocco 508 Mozambique 512 Oman 516 Namibia 520 Nauru 524 Nepal 528 Netherlands 530 Netherlands Antilles 533 Aruba 540 New Caledonia 548 Vanuatu 554 New Zealand 558 Nicaragua 562 Niger 566 Nigeria 570 Niue 574 Norfolk Island 578 Norway 580 Northern Mariana Islands 581 United States Minor Outlying Islands 583 Micronesia, Federated States of 584 Marshall Islands 585 Palau 586 Pakistan 591 Panama 598 Papua New Guinea 600 Paraguay 604 Peru 608 Philippines 612 Pitcairn 616 Poland 620 Portugal 624 Guinea-Bissau 626 Timor-Leste 630 Puerto Rico 634 Qatar 638 Réunion 642 Romania 643 Russian Federation 646 Rwanda 654 Saint Helena 659 Saint Kitts and Nevis 660 Anguilla 662 Saint Lucia 666 Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 670 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 674 San Marino 678 São Tomé and Príncipe 682 Saudi Arabia 686 Senegal 690 Seychelles 694 Sierra Leone 702 Singapore 703 Slovakia 704 Viet Nam 705 Slovenia 706 Somalia 710 South Africa 716 Zimbabwe 724 Spain 732 Western Sahara 736 Sudan 740 Suriname 744 Svalbard and Jan Mayen 748 Swaziland 752 Sweden 756 Switzerland 760 Syrian Arab Republic 762 Tajikistan 764 Thailand 768 Togo 772 Tokelau 776 Tonga 780 Trinidad and Tobago 784 United Arab Emirates 788 Tunisia 792 Turkey 795 Turkmenistan 796 Turks and Caicos Islands 798 Tuvalu 800 Uganda 804 Ukraine 807 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 818 Egypt 826 United Kingdom 834 Tanzania, United Republic Of 840 United States 850 Virgin Islands, U.S. 854 Burkina Faso 858 Uruguay 860 Uzbekistan 862 Venezuela 876 Wallis and Futuna 882 Samoa 887 Yemen 891 Serbia and Montenegro 894 ZambiaNumbers from 900-999 may be user-assigned.