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This page describes the standard short names of countries by ISO, which are widely used for the Internet, statistics and so on.

Standard country names

The official short names of countries in English and their country codes on ISO 3166-1 standard.

ISO Country Name	ISO Country Code			in OLPC Wiki
official short name in English	Alpha-2	Alpha-3	Numeric
Afghanistan	AF	AFG	004	OLPC Afghanistan
Aland Islands	AX	ALA	248
Albania	AL	ALB	008	OLPC Albania
Algeria	DZ	DZA	012	OLPC Algeria
American Samoa	AS	ASM	016
Andorra	AD	AND	020
Angola	AO	AGO	024
Anguilla	AI	AIA	660
Antarctica	AQ	ATA	010
Antigua and Barbuda	AG	ATG	028
Argentina	AR	ARG	032	OLPC Argentina
Armenia	AM	ARM	051
Aruba	AW	ABW	533
Australia	AU	AUS	036
Austria	AT	AUT	040	OLPC Austria
Azerbaijan	AZ	AZE	031
Bahamas	BS	BHS	044
Bahrain	BH	BHR	048
Bangladesh	BD	BGD	050
Barbados	BB	BRB	052
Belarus	BY	BLR	112
Belgium	BE	BEL	056	OLPC Belgium
Belize	BZ	BLZ	084
Benin	BJ	BEN	204	OLPC Benin
Bermuda	BM	BMU	060
Bhutan	BT	BTN	064	OLPC Bhutan
Bolivia	BO	BOL	068	OLPC Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	BIH	070
Botswana	BW	BWA	072
Bouvet Island	BV	BVT	074
Brazil	BR	BRA	076	OLPC Brazil
British Indian Ocean territory	IO	IOT	086
Brunei Darussalam	BN	BRN	096
Bulgaria	BG	BGR	100	OLPC Bulgaria
Burkina Faso	BF	BFA	854
Burundi	BI	BDI	108
Cambodia	KH	KHM	116	OLPC Cambodia
Cameroon	CM	CMR	120
Canada	CA	CAN	124
Cape Verde	CV	CPV	132
Cayman Islands	KY	CYM	136
Central African Republic	CF	CAF	140
Chad	TD	TCD	148
Channel Islands			830
Chile	CL	CHL	152	OLPC Chile
China	CN	CHN	156	OLPC China
Cistmas Island	CX	CXR	162
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	CC	CCK	166
Colombia	CO	COL	170	OLPC Colombia
Comoros	KM	COM	174
Congo	CG	COG	178
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	CD	COD	180
Cook Islands	CK	COK	184
Costa Rica	CR	CRI	188
Cote d'Lvoire	CI	CIV	384
Croatia	HR	HRV	191	OLPC Croatia
Cuba	CU	CUB	192
Cyprus	CY	CYP	196	OLPC Cyprus
Czech Republic	CZ	CZE	203
Denmark	DK	DNK	208
Djibouti	DJ	DJI	262
Dominica	DM	DMA	212
Dominican Republic	DO	DOM	214
Ecuador	EC	ECU	218	OLPC Ecuador
Egypt	EG	EGY	818	OLPC Egypt
El Salvador	SV	SLV	222
Equatorial Guinea	GQ	GNQ	226
Eritrea	ER	ERI	232
Estonia	EE	EST	233
Ethiopia	ET	ETH	231	OLPC Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	FK	FLK	238
Faroe Islands	FO	FRO	234
Fiji	FJ	FJI	242
Finland	FI	FIN	246
France	FR	FRA	250	OLPC France
French Guiana	GF	GUF	254
French Polynesia	PF	PYF	258
French Southern territories	TF	ATF	260
Gabon	GA	GAB	266
Gambia	GM	GMB	270
Georgia	GE	GEO	268
Germany	DE	DEU	276	OLPC Germany
Ghana	GH	GHA	288
Gibraltar	GI	GIB	292
Greece	GR	GRC	300	OLPC Greece
Greenland	GL	GRL	304
Grenada	GD	GRD	308
Guadeloupe	GP	GLP	312
Guam	GU	GUM	316
Guatemala	GT	GTM	320
Guernsey	GG	GGY	831
Guinea	GN	GIN	324
Guinea-Bissau	GW	GNB	624
Guyana	GY	GUY	328
Haiti	HT	HTI	332	OLPC Haiti
Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands	HM	HMD	334
Holy See (Vatican City State)	VA	VAT	336
Honduras	HN	HND	340
Hong Kong	HK	HKG	344
Hungary	HU	HUN	348
Iceland	IS	ISL	352
India	IN	IND	356	OLPC India
Indonesia	ID	IDN	360	OLPC Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Republic of	IR	IRN	364
Iraq	IQ	IRQ	368
Ireland	IE	IRL	372
Isle of Man	IM	IMN	833
Israel	IL	ISR	376	OLPC Israel
Italy	IT	ITA	380
Jamaica	JM	JAM	388
Japan	JP	JPN	392	OLPC Japan
Jersey	JE	JEY	832
Jordan	JO	JOR	400
Kazakhstan	KZ	KAZ	398
Kenya	KE	KEN	404	OLPC Kenya
Kiribati	KI	KIR	296
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	KP	PRK	408
Korea, Republic of	KR	KOR	410	OLPC Korea
Kuwait	KW	KWT	414
Kyrgyzstan	KG	KGZ	417
Lao People's Democratic Republic	LA	LAO	418	OLPC Laos
Latvia	LV	LVA	428
Lebanon	LB	LBN	422
Lesotho	LS	LSO	426
Liberia	LR	LBR	430
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	LY	LBY	434	OLPC Libya
Liechtenstein	LI	LIE	438
Lithuania	LT	LTU	440
Luxembourg	LU	LUX	442
Macao	MO	MAC	446
Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of	MK	MKD	807	OLPC Macedonia
Madagascar	MG	MDG	450
Malawi	MW	MWI	454
Malaysia	MY	MYS	458
Maldives	MV	MDV	462
Mali	ML	MLI	466
Malta	MT	MLT	470
Marshall Islands	MH	MHL	584
Martinique	MQ	MTQ	474
Mauritania	MR	MRT	478
Mauritius	MU	MUS	480
Mayotte	YT	MYT	175
Mexico	MX	MEX	484	OLPC Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of	FM	FSM	583
Moldova, Republic of	MD	MDA	498
Monaco	MC	MCO	492
Mongolia	MN	MNG	496	OLPC Mongolia
Montenegro	ME	MNE	499
Montserrat	MS	MSR	500
Morocco	MA	MAR	504
Mozambique	MZ	MOZ	508
Myanmar	MM	MMR	104	OLPC Myanmar
Namibia	NA	NAM	516
Nauru	NR	NRU	520
Nepal	NP	NPL	524	OLPC Nepal
Netherlands	NL	NLD	528	OLPC Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles	AN	ANT	530
New Caledonia	NC	NCL	540
New Zealand	NZ	NZL	554	OLPC New Zealand
Nicaragua	NI	NIC	558
Niger	NE	NER	562
Nigeria	NG	NGA	566	OLPC Nigeria
Niue	NU	NIU	570
Norfolk Island	NF	NFK	574
Northern Mariana Islands	MP	MNP	580
Norway	NO	NOR	578
Oman	OM	OMN	512
Pakistan	PK	PAK	586	OLPC Pakistan
Palau	PW	PLW	585
Palestinian territory, Occupied	PS	PSE	275
Panama	PA	PAN	591
Papua New Guinea	PG	PNG	598
Paraguay	PY	PRY	600	OLPC Paraguay
Peru	PE	PER	604	OLPC Peru
Philippines	PH	PHL	608	OLPC Philippines
Pitcairn	PN	PCN	612
Poland	PL	POL	616	OLPC Poland
Portugal	PT	PRT	620
Puerto Rico	PR	PRI	630
Qatar	QA	QAT	634
Reunion	RE	REU	638
Romania	RO	ROU	642	OLPC Romania
Russian Federation	RU	RUS	643	OLPC Russia
Rwanda	RW	RWA	646	OLPC Rwanda
Saint Barthelemy	BL	BLM	652
Saint Helena	SH	SHN	654
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KN	KNA	659
Saint Lucia	LC	LCA	662
Saint Martin	MF	MAF	663
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	PM	SPM	666
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	VC	VCT	670
Samoa	WS	WSM	882
San Marino	SM	SMR	674
Sao Tome and Principe	ST	STP	678
Saudi Arabia	SA	SAU	682
Senegal	SN	SEN	686	OLPC Senegal
Serbia	RS	SRB	688
Seychelles	SC	SYC	690
Sierra Leone	SL	SLE	694
Singapore	SG	SGP	702
Slovakia	SK	SVK	703
Slovenia	SI	SVN	705
Solomon Islands	SB	SLB	090	OLPC Solomon Islands
Somalia	SO	SOM	706	OLPC Somalia
South Africa	ZA	ZAF	710	OLPC South Africa
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	GS	SGS	239
Spain	ES	ESP	724
Sri Lanka	LK	LKA	144	OLPC Sri Lanka
Sudan	SD	SDN	736
Suriname	SR	SUR	740
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	SJ	SJM	744
Swaziland	SZ	SWZ	748
Sweden	SE	SWE	752
Switzerland	CH	CHE	756	OLPC Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic	SY	SYR	760
Taiwan, Province of China	TW	TWN	158	OLPC Taiwan
Tajikistan	TJ	TJK	762
Tanzania, United Republic of	TZ	TZA	834
Thailand	TH	THA	764	OLPC Thailand
Timor-Leste	TL	TLS	626
Togo	TG	TGO	768
Tokelau	TK	TKL	772
Tonga	TO	TON	776
Trinidad and Tobago	TT	TTO	780
Tunisia	TN	TUN	788
Turkey	TR	TUR	792	OLPC Turkey
Turkmenistan	TM	TKM	795
Turks and Caicos Islands	TC	TCA	796
Tuvalu	TV	TUV	798
Uganda	UG	UGA	800
Ukraine	UA	UKR	804	OLPC Ukraine
United Arab Emirates	AE	ARE	784
United Kingdom	GB	GBR	826	OLPC United Kingdom
United States	US	USA	840	OLPC USA
United States Minor Outlying Islands	UM	UMI	581
Uruguay	UY	URY	858	OLPC Uruguay
Uzbekistan	UZ	UZB	860
Vanuatu	VU	VUT	548
Venezuela	VE	VEN	862
Viet Nam	VN	VNM	704
Virgin Islands, British	VG	VGB	092
Virgin Islands, U.S.	VI	VIR	850
Wallis and Futuna	WF	WLF	876
Western Sahara	EH	ESH	732
Yemen	YE	YEM	887
Zambia	ZM	ZMB	894	OLPC Zambia
Zimbabwe	ZW	ZWE	716

User-assigned code elements

There is no code for global, worldwide or unknown entity in this standard, but user-defined codes are available.

• Alpha-2: AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, ZZ
• Alpha-3: AAA to AAZ, QMA to QZZ, XAA to XZZ, ZZA to ZZZ
• Numeric: 900 to 999

References

• English country names and code elements. ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, ISO. 2006-11-20.
• Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations. Statistics Division, UN. 2007-08-28.