ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
Template:Short description ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. They allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the two-letter alpha-2 codes (the third set of codes is numeric and hence offers no visual association).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its first edition in 1974.
Uses and applications
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are used most prominently in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports, as standardized by the International Civil Aviation Organization, with a number of additional codes for special passports; some of these codes are currently reserved and not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.<ref name="icao">Template:Citation</ref>
The United Nations uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO 3166, for international vehicle registration codes, which are codes used to identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate; some of these codes are currently indeterminately reserved in ISO 3166-1.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Current codes
Officially assigned code elements
The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> using a title case version of the English short names officially defined by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):
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- Template:Mono Aruba
- Template:Mono Afghanistan
- Template:Mono Angola
- Template:Mono Anguilla
- Template:Mono Åland Islands
- Template:Mono Albania
- Template:Mono Andorra
- Template:Mono United Arab Emirates
- Template:Mono Argentina
- Template:Mono Armenia
- Template:Mono American Samoa
- Template:Mono Antarctica
- Template:Mono French Southern Territories
- Template:Mono Antigua and Barbuda
- Template:Mono Australia
- Template:Mono Austria
- Template:Mono Azerbaijan
- Template:Mono Burundi
- Template:Mono Belgium
- Template:Mono Benin
- Template:Mono Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Template:Mono Burkina Faso
- Template:Mono Bangladesh
- Template:Mono Bulgaria
- Template:Mono Bahrain
- Template:Mono Bahamas
- Template:Mono Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Template:Mono Saint Barthélemy
- Template:Mono Belarus
- Template:Mono Belize
- Template:Mono Bermuda
- Template:Mono Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- Template:Mono Brazil
- Template:Mono Barbados
- Template:Mono Brunei Darussalam
- Template:Mono Bhutan
- Template:Mono Bouvet Island
- Template:Mono Botswana
- Template:Mono Central African Republic
- Template:Mono Canada
- Template:Mono Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Template:Mono Switzerland
- Template:Mono Chile
- Template:Mono China
- Template:Mono Côte d'Ivoire
- Template:Mono Cameroon
- Template:Mono Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Template:Mono Congo
- Template:Mono Cook Islands
- Template:Mono Colombia
- Template:Mono Comoros
- Template:Mono Cabo Verde
- Template:Mono Costa Rica
- Template:Mono Cuba
- Template:Mono Curaçao
- Template:Mono Christmas Island
- Template:Mono Cayman Islands
- Template:Mono Cyprus
- Template:Mono Czechia
- Template:Mono Germany
- Template:Mono Djibouti
- Template:Mono Dominica
- Template:Mono Denmark
- Template:Mono Dominican Republic
- Template:Mono Algeria
- Template:Mono Ecuador
- Template:Mono Egypt
- Template:Mono Eritrea
- Template:Mono Western Sahara
- Template:Mono Spain
- Template:Mono Estonia
- Template:Mono Ethiopia
- Template:Mono Finland
- Template:Mono Fiji
- Template:Mono Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Template:Mono France
- Template:Mono Faroe Islands
- Template:Mono Micronesia, Federated States of
- Template:Mono Gabon
- Template:Mono United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Template:Mono Georgia
- Template:Mono Guernsey
- Template:Mono Ghana
- Template:Mono Gibraltar
- Template:Mono Guinea
- Template:Mono Guadeloupe
- Template:Mono Gambia
- Template:Mono Guinea-Bissau
- Template:Mono Equatorial Guinea
- Template:Mono Greece
- Template:Mono Grenada
- Template:Mono Greenland
- Template:Mono Guatemala
- Template:Mono French Guiana
- Template:Mono Guam
- Template:Mono Guyana
- Template:Mono Hong Kong
- Template:Mono Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Template:Mono Honduras
- Template:Mono Croatia
- Template:Mono Haiti
- Template:Mono Hungary
- Template:Mono Indonesia
- Template:Mono Isle of Man
- Template:Mono India
- Template:Mono British Indian Ocean Territory
- Template:Mono Ireland
- Template:Mono Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Template:Mono Iraq
- Template:Mono Iceland
- Template:Mono Israel
- Template:Mono Italy
- Template:Mono Jamaica
- Template:Mono Jersey
- Template:Mono Jordan
- Template:Mono Japan
- Template:Mono Kazakhstan
- Template:Mono Kenya
- Template:Mono Kyrgyzstan
- Template:Mono Cambodia
- Template:Mono Kiribati
- Template:Mono Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Template:Mono Korea, Republic of
- Template:Mono Kuwait
- Template:Mono Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Template:Mono Lebanon
- Template:Mono Liberia
- Template:Mono Libya
- Template:Mono Saint Lucia
- Template:Mono Liechtenstein
- Template:Mono Sri Lanka
- Template:Mono Lesotho
- Template:Mono Lithuania
- Template:Mono Luxembourg
- Template:Mono Latvia
- Template:Mono Macao
- Template:Mono Saint Martin (French part)
- Template:Mono Morocco
- Template:Mono Monaco
- Template:Mono Moldova, Republic of
- Template:Mono Madagascar
- Template:Mono Maldives
- Template:Mono Mexico
- Template:Mono Marshall Islands
- Template:Mono North Macedonia
- Template:Mono Mali
- Template:Mono Malta
- Template:Mono Myanmar
- Template:Mono Montenegro
- Template:Mono Mongolia
- Template:Mono Northern Mariana Islands
- Template:Mono Mozambique
- Template:Mono Mauritania
- Template:Mono Montserrat
- Template:Mono Martinique
- Template:Mono Mauritius
- Template:Mono Malawi
- Template:Mono Malaysia
- Template:Mono Mayotte
- Template:Mono Namibia
- Template:Mono New Caledonia
- Template:Mono Niger
- Template:Mono Norfolk Island
- Template:Mono Nigeria
- Template:Mono Nicaragua
- Template:Mono Niue
- Template:Mono Netherlands, Kingdom of the
- Template:Mono Norway
- Template:Mono Nepal
- Template:Mono Nauru
- Template:Mono New Zealand
- Template:Mono Oman
- Template:Mono Pakistan
- Template:Mono Panama
- Template:Mono Pitcairn
- Template:Mono Peru
- Template:Mono Philippines
- Template:Mono Palau
- Template:Mono Papua New Guinea
- Template:Mono Poland
- Template:Mono Puerto Rico
- Template:Mono Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
- Template:Mono Portugal
- Template:Mono Paraguay
- Template:Mono Palestine, State of
- Template:Mono French Polynesia
- Template:Mono Qatar
- Template:Mono Réunion
- Template:Mono Romania
- Template:Mono Russian Federation
- Template:Mono Rwanda
- Template:Mono Saudi Arabia
- Template:Mono Sudan
- Template:Mono Senegal
- Template:Mono Singapore
- Template:Mono South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Template:Mono Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Template:Mono Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Template:Mono Solomon Islands
- Template:Mono Sierra Leone
- Template:Mono El Salvador
- Template:Mono San Marino
- Template:Mono Somalia
- Template:Mono Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Template:Mono Serbia
- Template:Mono South Sudan
- Template:Mono [[São Tomé and Príncipe|Template:Sic]]
- Template:Mono Suriname
- Template:Mono Slovakia
- Template:Mono Slovenia
- Template:Mono Sweden
- Template:Mono Eswatini
- Template:Mono Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Template:Mono Seychelles
- Template:Mono Syrian Arab Republic
- Template:Mono Turks and Caicos Islands
- Template:Mono Chad
- Template:Mono Togo
- Template:Mono Thailand
- Template:Mono Tajikistan
- Template:Mono Tokelau
- Template:Mono Turkmenistan
- Template:Mono Timor-Leste
- Template:Mono Tonga
- Template:Mono Trinidad and Tobago
- Template:Mono Tunisia
- Template:Mono Türkiye
- Template:Mono Tuvalu
- Template:Mono Taiwan, Province of China
- Template:Mono Tanzania, United Republic of
- Template:Mono Uganda
- Template:Mono Ukraine
- Template:Mono United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Template:Mono Uruguay
- Template:Mono United States of America
- Template:Mono Uzbekistan
- Template:Mono Holy See
- Template:Mono Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Template:Mono Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Template:Mono Virgin Islands (British)
- Template:Mono Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Template:Mono Viet Nam
- Template:Mono Vanuatu
- Template:Mono Wallis and Futuna
- Template:Mono Samoa
- Template:Mono Yemen
- Template:Mono South Africa
- Template:Mono Zambia
- Template:Mono Zimbabwe
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User-assigned code elements
User-assigned code elements are codes 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 these codes in the updating process of the standard. The following alpha-3 codes can be user-assigned: Template:Mono to Template:Mono, Template:Mono to Template:Mono, Template:Mono to Template:Mono, and Template:Mono to Template:Mono.<ref name="iso-3166-glossary">Template:Cite web</ref>
Examples
The following codes are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for special machine-readable passports:<ref name="icao" />
- Template:Mono is used for the European Union laissez-passer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Mono is used to represent the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- Template:Mono, a single character, is used for Germany.
- Template:Mono is used for Interpol travel documents
- Template:Mono is used to represent a stateless person, as defined in Article 1 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
- Template:Mono is used to represent a refugee, as defined in Article 1 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as amended by the 1967 Protocol
- Template:Mono is used to represent a refugee, other than as defined above
- Template:Mono is used to represent a person of unspecified nationality
NATO STANAG 1059 INT is built upon ISO alpha-3 codes, but also defines alpha-2 codes incompatible with ISO 3166-1. It introduces several private use codes for fictional countries and organizational entities:
NATO also continues to use reserved codes for continents: Template:Div col
Template:Mono is an ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 equivalent user-assigned code element for Kosovo in the European Union,<ref name="EUGeo">Template:Cite web</ref> and Template:Mono is used in the Unicode standard.<ref name="TR35">Template:Cite web</ref>
Reserved code elements
Reserved code elements are codes which have become obsolete, or are required in order to enable a particular user application of the standard but do not qualify for inclusion in ISO 3166-1. To avoid transitional application problems and to aid users who require specific additional code elements for the functioning of their coding systems, the ISO 3166/MA, when justified, reserves these codes which it undertakes not to use for other than specified purposes during a limited or indeterminate period of time.
The reserved alpha-3 codes are divided into the following three categories: exceptional reservations, transitional reservations, and indeterminate reservations.<ref name="iso-3166-glossary"/>
Exceptional reservations
Exceptionally reserved code elements are codes reserved at the request of national ISO member bodies, governments and international organizations, which are required in order to support a particular application, as specified by the requesting body and limited to such use; any further use of such code elements is subject to approval by the ISO 3166/MA. The following alpha-3 codes are currently exceptionally reserved:
- Template:Mono Ascension IslandTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of Universal Postal Union (UPU), also used by International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Template:Mono Clipperton IslandTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of ITU
- Template:Mono SarkTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of the United Kingdom
- Template:Mono Diego GarciaTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of ITU
- Template:Mono France, MetropolitanTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of France; Officially assigned before being deleted from ISO 3166-1
- Template:Mono USSRTemplate:Snd From June 2008; Transitionally reserved from September 1992; Officially assigned before being deleted from ISO 3166-1
- Template:Mono Tristan da CunhaTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
The following alpha-3 codes were previously exceptionally reserved, but are now officially assigned:
- Template:Mono GuernseyTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
- Template:Mono Isle of ManTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
- Template:Mono JerseyTemplate:Snd Reserved on request of UPU
Transitional reservations
Transitional reserved code elements are codes reserved after their deletion from ISO 3166-1. These codes may be used only during a transitional period of at least five years while new code elements that may have replaced them are taken into use. These codes may be reassigned by the ISO 3166/MA after the expiration of the transitional period. The following alpha-3 codes are currently transitionally reserved:
- Template:Mono Netherlands AntillesTemplate:Snd From December 2010
- Template:Mono BurmaTemplate:Snd From December 1989
- Template:Mono Byelorussian SSRTemplate:Snd From June 1992
- Template:Mono CzechoslovakiaTemplate:Snd From June 1993
- Template:Mono Neutral ZoneTemplate:Snd From July 1993
- Template:Mono RomaniaTemplate:Snd From February 2002; Code changed to Template:Mono<ref name="Romania">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Mono Serbia and MontenegroTemplate:Snd From September 2006
- Template:Mono East TimorTemplate:Snd From May 2002
- Template:Mono YugoslaviaTemplate:Snd From July 2003
- Template:Mono ZaireTemplate:Snd From July 1997
Indeterminate reservations
Indeterminately reserved code elements are reserved for use in a particular way, usually due to their presence in other coding systems. For example, several codes are reserved because they are used for international intellectual property organizations in WIPO Standard ST.3.
The following codes used to designate road vehicles are indeterminately reserved under the 1949 and 1968 United Nations Conventions on Road Traffic:
- Template:Mono Aden
- Template:Mono Barbados (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Brunei (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Canada (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Kenya (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Tanganyika [Part of Tanzania, United Republic of]
- Template:Mono Uganda (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Zanzibar [Part of Tanzania, United Republic of]
- Template:Mono Alderney
- Template:Mono Guernsey (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Jersey (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Isle of Man (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Gibraltar (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Guatemala (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Jordan (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Malaysia (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Central African Republic (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Congo, People's Republic of (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Chile (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Mali (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Zambia (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Korea, Republic of (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono San Marino (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]
- Template:Mono Slovenia (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Suriname (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Turkmenistan (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Gambia (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Sierra Leone (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Nigeria (current code Template:Mono)
- Template:Mono Zaire (current code Template:Mono)
The following alpha-3 code was previously indeterminately reserved, but has been reassigned to another country as its official code:
- Template:Mono Uruguay (current code Template:Mono)Template:Snd Code reassigned to Romania
The following are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for special machine-readable passports:
- Template:Mono identifies a British Passport holder who is a British Overseas Territories citizen
- Template:Mono identifies a British Passport holder who is a British National (Overseas)
- Template:Mono identifies a British Passport holder who is a British Overseas citizen
- Template:Mono identifies a British Passport holder who is a British protected person
- Template:Mono identifies a British Passport holder who is a British subject
- Template:Mono is used as a substitute for nationality where the holder is an Official of a Specialized Agency of the UN Organization
- Template:Mono identifies Kosovo residents to whom travel documents were issued by the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK)
- Template:Mono is used to designate the UN Organization as the issuer and used as a substitute for nationality where the holder is an Official of the UN Organization
Deleted codes
Besides the codes currently transitionally reserved and two other codes currently exceptionally reserved (Template:Mono for France, Metropolitan and Template:Mono for USSR), the following alpha-3 codes have also been deleted from ISO 3166-1:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Mono French Afars and Issas
- Template:Mono British Antarctic Territory
- Template:Mono Dronning Maud Land
- Template:Mono Canton and Enderbury Islands
- Template:Mono German Democratic Republic
- Template:Mono Dahomey
- Template:Mono Gilbert and Ellice Islands
- Template:Mono Upper Volta
- Template:Mono Johnston Island
- Template:Mono Midway Islands
- Template:Mono New Hebrides
- Template:Mono Pacific Islands (Trust Territory)
- Template:Mono Panama Canal Zone
- Template:Mono PhilippinesTemplate:Snd Code changed to Template:Mono in 1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Mono United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands
- Template:Mono Southern Rhodesia
- Template:Mono Sikkim
- Template:Mono Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of
- Template:Mono Wake Island
- Template:Mono Yemen, Democratic
See also
- List of IOC country codes, used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- List of FIFA country codes, used by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
- Comparison of alphabetic country codes
References
Sources
- ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Reserved code elements under ISO 3166-1 "Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes", available on request from ISO 3166/MA
- Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use, United Nations Statistics Division
- Countries or areas, codes and abbreviationsTemplate:Snd list of alpha-3 and numeric codes (a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list)
- The World Factbook (public domain), Central Intelligence Agency
- Appendix DTemplate:Snd Country Data CodesTemplate:Snd comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166, and STANAG 1059 country codes
- Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids"), Statoids.com
- Country codesTemplate:Snd comparison of ISO 3166-1 country codes with other country codes
- ISO 3166-1 Change History, Statoids.com