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ISO 3166 Country Codes

The ISO has specified two-letter ASCII codes for the world's countries. These are summarized in the ISO 3166 two-letter country-code standard, given below. As with the language codes, country codes are case-insensitive. You may notice that these are the codes used by the Internet domain name scheme for indicating the country domain of an Internet address. Absent from this list are the non-national names commonly used in domain naming schemes, such as ARPA (Old-style Arpanet--obsolete), COM (Commercial), EDU (Educational), GOV (Government), INT (International), MIL (U.S. Military), NATO (for NATO, soon to be obsolete), NET (Network) and ORG (Nonprofit organization). The use of these codes is discussed in Chapter 5 of The HTML Sourcebook, Third edition.


Table: Two-letter Country Codes, From ISO 3166
Code Country Code Country
AD Andorra AE United Arab Emirates
AF Afghanistan AG Antigua and Barbuda
AI Anguilla AL Albania
AM Armenia AN Netherland Antilles
AO Angola AQ Antarctica
AR Argentina AS American Samoa
AT Austria AU Australia
AW Aruba AZ Azerbaijan
BA Bosnia- 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
BZ Belize CA Canada
CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands CF Central African Republic
CG Congo CH Switzerland
CI Ivory Coast CK Cook Islands
CL Chile CM Cameroon
CN China CO Colombia
CR Costa Rica CS Czechoslovakia (obsolete)
CU Cuba CV Cape Verde
CX Christmas Island CY Cyprus
CZ Czech Republic DE Germany
DJ Djibouti DK Denmark
DM Dominica DO Dominican Republic
DZ Algeria EC Ecuador
EE Estonia EG Egypt
EH Western Sahara ER Eritrea
ES Spain ET Ethiopia
FI Finland FJ Fiji
FK Falkland Isl.( Malvinas) FM Micronesia
FO Faroe Islands FR France
FX France (Europe only) GA Gabon
GB Great Britain (UK) GD Grenada
GE Georgia GF Guyana (Fr.)
GH Ghana GI Gibraltar
GL Greenland GM Gambia
GN Guinea GP Guadeloupe (Fr.)
GQ Equatorial Guinea GR Greece
GS South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands GT Guatemala
GU Guam (US) GW Guinea Bissau
GY Guyana HK Hong Kong
HM Heard & McDonald Islands HN Honduras
HR Croatia HT Haiti
HU Hungary ID Indonesia
IE Ireland IL Israel
IN India IO British Indian Ocean Terr.
IQ Iraq IR Iran
IS Iceland IT Italy
JM Jamaica JO Jordan
JP Japan KE Kenya
KG Kyrgyz Republic KH Cambodia
KI Kiribati KM Comoros
KN St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla KP Korea (North)
KR Korea (South) KW Kuwait
KY Cayman Islands KZ Kazachstan
LA Laos LB Lebanon
LC Saint Lucia LI Liechtenstein
LK Sri Lanka LR Liberia
LS Lesotho LT Lithuania
LU Luxembourg LV Latvia
LY Libya MA Morocco
MC Monaco MD Moldova
MG Madagascar MH Marshall Islands
MK Macedonia (prev. Yug.) ML Mali
MM Myanmar MN Mongolia
MO Macau MP Northern Mariana Islands
MQ Martinique (Fr.) MR Mauritania
MS Montserrat MT Malta
MU Mauritius MV Maldives
MW Malawi MX Mexico
MY Malaysia MZ Mozambique
NA Namibia NC New Caledonia Fr.
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 Polynesia (Fr.)
PG Papua New Guinea PH Philippines
PK Pakistan PL Poland
PM St. Pierre & Miquelon PN Pitcairn
PR Puerto Rico (US) PT Portugal
PW Palau PY Paraguay
QA Qatar RE Reunion (Fr.)
RO Romania RU Russian Federation
RW Rwanda SA Saudi Arabia
SB Solomon Islands SC Seychelles
SD Sudan SE Sweden
SG Singapore SH St. Helena
SI Slovenia SJ Svalbard& Jan Mayen Islands
SK Slovakia (Slovak Republic) SL Sierra Leone
SM San Marino SN Senegal
SO Somalia SR Suriname
ST St. Tome and Principe SU Soviet Union (obsolete)
SV El Salvador SY Syria
SZ Swaziland TC Turks& Caicos Islands
TD Chad TF French Southern Territory
TG Togo TH Thailand
TJ Tadjikistan TK Tokelau
TM Turkmenistan TN Tunisia
TO Tonga TP East Timor
TR Turkey TT Trinidad Tobago
TV Tuvalu TW Taiwan
TZ Tanzania UA Ukraine
UG Uganda UK United Kingdom
UM US Minor outlying Islands US United States
UY Uruguay UZ Uzbekistan
VA Vatican City State VC St. Vincent& Grenadines
VE Venezuela VG VirginIslands (GB)
VI Virgin Islands (US) VN Vietnam
VU Vanuatu WF Wallis & Futuna Islands
WS Samoa YE Yemen
YT Mayotte YU Yugoslavia (obsolete)
ZA South Africa ZM Zambia
ZR Zaire ZW Zimbabwe
Code Country Code Country

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