ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent areas. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard. They are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports.

Current codes

The country names are English short country names officially used by the ISO.

ABW - Aruba
AFG - Afghanistan
AGO - Angola
AIA - Anguilla
ALA - Åland Islands
ALB - Albania
AND - Andorra
ANT - Netherlands Antilles
ARE - United Arab Emirates
ARG - Argentina
ARM - Armenia
ASM - American Samoa
ATA - Antarctica
ATF - French Southern Territories
ATG - Antigua and Barbuda
AUS - Australia
AUT - Austria
AZE - Azerbaijan
BDI - Burundi
BEL - Belgium
BEN - Benin
BFA - Burkina Faso
BGD - Bangladesh
BGR - Bulgaria
BHR - Bahrain
BHS - Bahamas
BIH - Bosnia and Herzegovina
BLR - Belarus
BLZ - Belize
BMU - Bermuda
BOL - Bolivia
BRA - Brazil
BRB - Barbados
BRN - Brunei Darussalam
BTN - Bhutan
BVT - Bouvet Island
BWA - Botswana
CAF - Central African Republic
CAN - Canada
CCK - Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CHE - Switzerland
CHL - Chile
CHN - China
CIV - Côte d'Ivoire
CMR - Cameroon
COD - Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
COG - Congo
COK - Cook Islands
COL - Colombia
COM - Comoros
CPV - Cape Verde
CRI - Costa Rica
CUB - Cuba
CXR - Christmas Island
CYM - Cayman Islands
CYP - Cyprus
CZE - Czech Republic
DEU - Germany
DJI - Djibouti
DMA - Dominica
DNK - Denmark
DOM - Dominican Republic
DZA - Algeria
ECU - Ecuador
EGY - Egypt
ERI - Eritrea
ESH - Western Sahara
ESP - Spain
EST - Estonia
ETH - Ethiopia
FIN - Finland
FJI - Fiji
FLK - Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
FRA - France
FRO - Faroe Islands
FSM - Micronesia, Federated States of
GAB - Gabon
GBR - United Kingdom
GEO - Georgia
GGY - Guernsey
GHA - Ghana
GIB - Gibraltar
GIN - Guinea
GLP - Guadeloupe
GMB - Gambia
GNB - Guinea-Bissau
GNQ - Equatorial Guinea
GRC - Greece
GRD - Grenada
GRL - Greenland
GTM - Guatemala
GUF - French Guiana
GUM - Guam
GUY - Guyana
HKG - Hong Kong
HMD - Heard Island and McDonald Islands
HND - Honduras
HRV - Croatia
HTI - Haiti
HUN - Hungary
IDN - Indonesia
IMN - Isle of Man
IND - India
IOT - British Indian Ocean Territory
IRL - Ireland
IRN - Iran, Islamic Republic of
IRQ - Iraq
ISL - Iceland
ISR - Israel
ITA - Italy
JAM - Jamaica
JEY - Jersey
JPN - Japan
JOR - Jordan
KAZ - Kazakhstan
KEN - Kenya
KGZ - Kyrgyzstan
KHM - Cambodia
KIR - Kiribati
KNA - Saint Kitts and Nevis
KOR - Korea, Republic of
KWT - Kuwait
LAO - Lao People's Democratic Republic
LBN - Lebanon
LBR - Liberia
LBY - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
LCA - Saint Lucia
LIE - Liechtenstein
LKA - Sri Lanka
LSO - Lesotho
LTU - Lithuania
LUX - Luxembourg
LVA - Latvia
MAC - Macao
MAR - Morocco
MCO - Monaco
MDA - Moldova, Republic of
MDG - Madagascar
MDV - Maldives
MEX - Mexico
MHL - Marshall Islands
MKD - Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
MLI - Mali
MLT - Malta
MMR - Myanmar
MNG - Mongolia
MNP - Northern Mariana Islands
MOZ - Mozambique
MRT - Mauritania
MSR - Montserrat
MTQ - Martinique
MUS - Mauritius
MWI - Malawi
MYS - Malaysia
MYT - Mayotte
NAM - Namibia
NCL - New Caledonia
NER - Niger
NFK - Norfolk Island
NGA - Nigeria
NIC - Nicaragua
NIU - Niue
NLD - Netherlands
NOR - Norway
NPL - Nepal
NRU - Nauru
NZL - New Zealand
OMN - Oman
PAK - Pakistan
PAN - Panama
PCN - Pitcairn
PER - Peru
PHL - Philippines
PLW - Palau
PNG - Papua New Guinea
POL - Poland
PRI - Puerto Rico
PRK - Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
PRT - Portugal
PRY - Paraguay
PSE - Palestinian Territory, Occupied
PYF - French Polynesia
QAT - Qatar
REU - Réunion
ROU - Romania
RUS - Russian Federation
RWA - Rwanda
SAU - Saudi Arabia
SCG - Serbia and Montenegro¹
SDN - Sudan
SEN - Senegal
SGP - Singapore
SGS - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
SHN - Saint Helena
SJM - Svalbard and Jan Mayen
SLB - Solomon Islands
SLE - Sierra Leone
SLV - El Salvador
SMR - San Marino
SOM - Somalia
SPM - Saint Pierre and Miquelon
STP - Sao Tome and Principe
SUR - Suriname
SVK - Slovakia
SVN - Slovenia
SWE - Sweden
SWZ - Swaziland
SYC - Seychelles
SYR - Syrian Arab Republic
TCA - Turks and Caicos Islands
TCD - Chad
TGO - Togo
THA - Thailand
TJK - Tajikistan
TKL - Tokelau
TKM - Turkmenistan
TLS - Timor-Leste
TON - Tonga
TTO - Trinidad and Tobago
TUN - Tunisia
TUR - Turkey
TUV - Tuvalu
TWN - Taiwan, Province of China
TZA - Tanzania, United Republic of
UGA - Uganda
UKR - Ukraine
UMI - United States Minor Outlying Islands
URY - Uruguay
USA - United States
UZB - Uzbekistan
VAT - Holy See (Vatican City State)
VCT - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
VEN - Venezuela
VGB - Virgin Islands, British
VIR - Virgin Islands, U.S.
VNM - Viet Nam
VUT - Vanuatu
WLF - Wallis and Futuna
WSM - Samoa
YEM - Yemen
ZAF - South Africa
ZMB - Zambia
ZWE - Zimbabwe

¹Serbia and Montenegro no longer exists as a country. The ISO has yet to release the official codes for the successor states Montenegro and Serbia.

Reserved code elements

User-assigned codes

The following alpha-3 codes are user-assigned: AAA, QMA-QZZ, XAA-XZZ, and ZZZ.

Transitional reservations

The following alpha-3 codes are subject to a transitional reservation:

BUR - Burma, became Myanmar in 1989
BYS - Byelorussian SSR, became Belarus in 1991
CSK - Czechoslovakia, split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993
NTZ - Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone, partitioned in 1983
ZAR - Zaire, became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997

Indeterminate reservations

The following three letter codes are subject to an indeterminate reservation, having been notified to the United Nations Secretary-General under the 1949 and/or 1968 Road Transport Conventions:

ADN - Aden, became the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1967-1970
BDS - Barbados
BRU - Brunei
CDN - Canada
EAK - Kenya
EAT - Tanganyika, absorbed into Tanzania in 1964
EAU - Uganda
EAZ - Zanzibar, absorbed into Tanzania in 1964
GBA - Alderney
GBG - Guernsey
GBJ - Jersey (Great Britain Jersey)
GBM - Isle of Man (Great Britain Man)
GBZ - Gibraltar
GCA - Guatemala
HKJ - Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)
MAL - Malaysia
RCA - Central African Republic
RCB - People's Republic of Congo, became the Republic of the Congo in 1991 (République Congo Brazzaville)
RCH - Chile
RMM - Mali
RNR - Zambia (Republic Northern Rhodesia)
ROK - South Korea (Republic Of Korea)
ROU - Uruguay — ROU now used by Romania
RSR - Southern Rhodesia, became Zimbabwe in 1980
RSM - San Marino
SLO - Slovenia
SME - Suriname
TMN - Turkmenistan
WAG - Gambia
WAL - Sierra Leone
ZRE - Zaire, became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997

Exceptional reservations

The following alpha-3 code elements are subject to an exceptional reservation:

ASC - Ascension Island - reserved for UPU, also used by ITU
CPT - Clipperton Island - reserved for ITU
DGA - Diego Garcia - reserved for ITU
FXX - Metropolitan France - reserved on behalf of France
TAA - Tristan da Cunha - reserved for UPU

The following three codes were also under exceptional reservation, until the update from 2006-03-29 included them in the standard:

GGY - Guernsey - reserved for UPU
IMN - Isle of Man - reserved for UPU
JEY - Jersey - reserved for UPU

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
UNO - United Nations Official
UNA - United Nations Specialized Agency Official
UNK - Kosovo resident, issued travel document by UNMIK

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