ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

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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):

ABWAruba AFGAfghanistan AGOAngola AIAAnguilla ALAÅland Islands ALBAlbania ANDAndorra ANTNetherlands Antilles AREUnited Arab Emirates ARGArgentina ARMArmenia ASMAmerican Samoa ATAAntarctica ATFFrench Southern and Antarctic Lands ATGAntigua and Barbuda AUSAustralia AUTAustria AZEAzerbaijan BDIBurundi BELBelgium BENBenin BESBonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba BFABurkina Faso BGDBangladesh BGRBulgaria BHRBahrain BHSBahamas BIHBosnia and Herzegovina BLMSaint Barthélemy BLRBelarus BLZBelize BMUBermuda BOLBolivia BRABrazil BRBBarbados BRNBrunei Darussalam BTNBhutan BVTBouvet Island BWABotswana CAFCentral African Republic CANCanada CCKCocos (Keeling) Islands CHESwitzerland CHLChile CHNChina CIVCôte d'Ivoire CMRCameroon CODCongo, the Democratic Republic of the COGCongo COKCook Islands COLColombia COMComoros CPTClipperton Island CPVCape Verde CRICosta Rica CUBCuba CXRChristmas Island CYMCayman Islands CYPCyprus CZECzechia DEUGermany DJIDjibouti DMADominica DNKDenmark DOMDominican Republic DZAAlgeria ECUEcuador EGYEgypt ERIEritrea ESHWestern Sahara ESPSpain ESTEstonia ETHEthiopia FINFinland FJIFiji FLKFalkland Islands (Malvinas) FRAFrance FROFaroe Islands FSMMicronesia, Federated States of GABGabon GBRUnited Kingdom GEOGeorgia GGYGuernsey GHAGhana
GINGuinea GIBGibraltar GLPGuadeloupe GMBGambia GNBGuinea-Bissau GNQEquatorial Guinea GRCGreece GRDGrenada GRLGreenland GTMGuatemala GUFFrench Guiana GUMGuam GUYGuyana HKGHong Kong HMDHeard Island and McDonald Islands HNDHonduras HRVCroatia HTIHaiti HUNHungary IDNIndonesia IMNIsle of Man INDIndia IOTBritish Indian Ocean Territory IRLIreland IRNIran, Islamic Republic of IRQIraq ISLIceland ISRIsrael ITAItaly JAMJamaica JEYJersey JORJordan JPNJapan KAZKazakhstan KENKenya KGZKyrgyzstan KHMCambodia KIRKiribati KNASaint Kitts and Nevis KORKorea, Republic of KWTKuwait LAOLao People's Democratic Republic LBNLebanon LBRLiberia LBYLibyan Arab Jamahiriya LCASaint Lucia LIELiechtenstein LKASri Lanka LSOLesotho LTULithuania LUXLuxembourg LVALatvia MACMacao MAFSaint Martin MARMorocco MCOMonaco MDAMoldova, Republic of MDGMadagascar MDVMaldives MEXMexico MHLMarshall Islands MKDMacedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of MLIMali MLTMalta MMRMyanmar MNEMontenegro MNGMongolia MNPNorthern Mariana Islands MOZMozambique MRTMauritania MSRMontserrat MTQMartinique MUSMauritius MWIMalawi MYSMalaysia MYTMayotte NAMNamibia NCLNew Caledonia NERNiger NFKNorfolk Island NGANigeria NICNicaragua
NORNorway NIUNiue NLDNetherlands NPLNepal NRUNauru NZLNew Zealand OMNOman PAKPakistan PANPanama PCNPitcairn Islands PERPeru PHLPhilippines PLWPalau PNGPapua New Guinea POLPoland PRIPuerto Rico PRKKorea, Democratic People's Republic of PRTPortugal PRYParaguay PSEPalestinian Territory, Occupied PYFFrench Polynesia QATQatar REURéunion ROURomania RUSRussian Federation RWARwanda SAUSaudi Arabia SDNSudan SENSenegal SGPSingapore SGSSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands SHNSaint Helena SJMSvalbard and Jan Mayen SLBSolomon Islands SLESierra Leone SLVEl Salvador SMRSan Marino SOMSomalia SPMSaint Pierre and Miquelon SRBSerbia STPSão Tomé and Príncipe SURSuriname SVKSlovakia SVNSlovenia SWESweden SWZEswatini SXMSint Maarten SYCSeychelles SYRSyrian Arab Republic TCATurks and Caicos Islands TCDChad TGOTogo THAThailand TJKTajikistan TKLTokelau TKMTurkmenistan TLSTimor-Leste TONTonga TTOTrinidad and Tobago TUNTunisia TURTurkey TUVTuvalu TWNTaiwan, Province of China TZATanzania, United Republic of UGAUganda UKRUkraine UMIUnited States Minor Outlying Islands URYUruguay USAUnited States UZBUzbekistan VATHoly See (Vatican City State) VCTSaint Vincent and the Grenadines VENVenezuela VGBVirgin Islands, British VIRVirgin Islands, U.S. VNMViet Nam VUTVanuatu WLFWallis and Futuna WSMSamoa YEMYemen ZAFSouth Africa ZMBZambia ZWEZimbabwe

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:

  • GGYGuernsey — Reserved on request of UPU
  • IMNIsle of Man — Reserved on request of UPU
  • JEYJersey — Reserved on request of UPU

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 – Kosovar resident, issued passport for travel document by the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo
  • UNO – United Nations Organization as the issuer and substitutes nationality when the holder is an Official of the UN Organization
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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:

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