Country Data Codes

GEOPOLITICAL ENTITIES, NAMES, and CODES (GENC): The Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard is the US Government-approved profile of names of countries and country subdivisions. Based on ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions, it specifies an authoritative set of country codes and names for use by the Federal Government for information exchange. GENC uses ISO 3166 (Parts 1 and 2) names and code elements wherever possible, with modifications only where necessary to comply with US law and US Government recognition policy. This profile addresses unique US Government requirements for: restrictions in recognition of the national sovereignty of a country; identification and recognition of geopolitical entities not included in ISO 3166; and the use of names of countries and country subdivisions that have been approved by the US Board on Geographic Names.

ISO 3166: Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries (ISO 3166) is prepared by the International Organization for Standardization. ISO 3166 includes two- and three-character alphabetic codes and three-digit numeric codes that may be needed for activities involving exchange of data with international organizations that have adopted that standard. Except for the numeric codes, ISO 3166 codes have been adopted in the US as FIPS 104-1: American National Standard Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries, Dependencies, and Areas of Special Sovereignty for Information Interchange.

STANAG 1059: Letter Codes for Geographical Entities (8th edition, 2004) is a Standardization Agreement (STANAG) established and maintained by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO/OTAN) for the purpose of providing a common set of geo-spatial identifiers for countries, territories, and possessions. The 8th edition established trigraph codes for each country based upon the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 character sets. These codes are used throughout NATO.

Internet: The Internet country code is the two-letter digraph maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).

Name	GENC	ISO 3166	Stanag	Internet	Comment
Afghanistan	AFG	AF\|AFG\|004	AFG	.af
Akrotiri	XQZ	-	-	-
Albania	ALB	AL\|ALB\|008	ALB	.al
Algeria	DZA	DZ\|DZA\|012	DZA	.dz
American Samoa	ASM	AS\|ASM\|016	ASM	.as
Andorra	AND	AD\|AND\|020	AND	.ad
Angola	AGO	AO\|AGO\|024	AGO	.ao
Anguilla	AIA	AI\|AIA\|660	AIA	.ai
Antarctica	ATA	AQ\|ATA\|010	ATA	.aq	ISO defines as the territory south of 60 degrees south latitude
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	AG\|ATG\|028	ATG	.ag
Argentina	ARG	AR\|ARG\|032	ARG	.ar
Armenia	ARM	AM\|ARM\|051	ARM	.am
Aruba	ABW	AW\|ABW\|533	ABW	.aw
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	XAC	-	AUS	-	ISO includes with Australia
Australia	AUS	AU\|AUS\|036	AUS	.au	ISO includes Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Coral Sea Islands
Austria	AUT	AT\|AUT\|040	AUT	.at
Azerbaijan	AZE	AZ\|AZE\|031	AZE	.az
Bahamas, The	BHS	BS\|BHS\|044	BHS	.bs
Bahrain	BHR	BH\|BHR\|048	BHR	.bh
Baker Island	XBK	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Bangladesh	BGD	BD\|BGD\|050	BGD	.bd
Barbados	BRB	BB\|BRB\|052	BRB	.bb
Bassas da India	XBI	-	-	-	administered as part of French Southern and Antarctic Lands; no ISO codes assigned
Belarus	BLR	BY\|BLR\|112	BLR	.by
Belgium	BEL	BE\|BEL\|056	BEL	.be
Belize	BLZ	BZ\|BLZ\|084	BLZ	.bz
Benin	BEN	BJ\|BEN\|204	BEN	.bj
Bermuda	BMU	BM\|BMU\|060	BMU	.bm
Bhutan	BTN	BT\|BTN\|064	BTN	.bt
Bolivia	BOL	BO\|BOL\|068	BOL	.bo
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	BA\|BIH\|070	BIH	.ba
Botswana	BWA	BW\|BWA\|072	BWA	.bw
Bouvet Island	BVT	BV\|BVT\|074	BVT	.bv
Brazil	BRA	BR\|BRA\|076	BRA	.br
British Indian Ocean Territory	IOT	IO\|IOT\|086	IOT	.io
British Virgin Islands	VGB	VG\|VGB\|092	VGB	.vg
Brunei	BRN	BN\|BRN\|096	BRN	.bn
Bulgaria	BGR	BG\|BGR\|100	BGR	.bg
Burkina Faso	BFA	BF\|BFA\|854	BFA	.bf
Burma	MMR	MM\|MMR\|104	MMR	.mm	ISO uses the name Myanmar
Burundi	BDI	BI\|BDI\|108	BDI	.bi
Cabo Verde	CPV	CV\|CPV\|132	CPV	.cv
Cambodia	KHM	KH\|KHM\|116	KHM	.kh
Cameroon	CMR	CM\|CMR\|120	CMR	.cm
Canada	CAN	CA\|CAN\|124	CAN	.ca
Cayman Islands	CYM	KY\|CYM\|136	CYM	.ky
Central African Republic	CAF	CF\|CAF\|140	CAF	.cf
Chad	TCD	TD\|TCD\|148	TCD	.td
Chile	CHL	CL\|CHL\|152	CHL	.cl
China	CHN	CN\|CHN\|156	CHN	.cn	see also Taiwan
Christmas Island	CXR	CX\|CXR\|162	CXR	.cx
Clipperton Island	CPT	-	FYP	-	ISO includes with France
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	CCK	CC\|CCK\|166	AUS	.cc
Colombia	COL	CO\|COL\|170	COL	.co
Comoros	COM	KM\|COM\|174	COM	.km
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	COD	CD\|COD\|180	COD	.cd	formerly Zaire
Congo, Republic of the	COG	CG\|COG\|178	COG	.cg
Cook Islands	COK	CK\|COK\|184	COK	.ck
Coral Sea Islands	XCS	-	AUS	-	ISO includes with Australia
Costa Rica	CRI	CR\|CRI\|188	CRI	.cr
Cote d'Ivoire	CIV	CI\|CIV\|384	CIV	.ci
Croatia	HRV	HR\|HRV\|191	HRV	.hr
Cuba	CUB	CU\|CUB\|192	CUB	.cu
Curacao	CUW	CW\|CUW\|531	-	.cw
Cyprus	CYP	CY\|CYP\|196	CYP	.cy
Czechia	CZE	CZ\|CZE\|203	CZE	.cz
Denmark	DNK	DK\|DNK\|208	DNK	.dk
Dhekelia	XXD	-	-	-
Djibouti	DJI	DJ\|DJI\|262	DJI	.dj
Dominica	DMA	DM\|DMA\|212	DMA	.dm
Dominican Republic	DOM	DO\|DOM\|214	DOM	.do
Ecuador	ECU	EC\|ECU\|218	ECU	.ec
Egypt	EGY	EG\|EGY\|818	EGY	.eg
El Salvador	SLV	SV\|SLV\|222	SLV	.sv
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	GQ\|GNQ\|226	GNQ	.gq
Eritrea	ERI	ER\|ERI\|232	ERI	.er
Estonia	EST	EE\|EST\|233	EST	.ee
Eswatini	SWZ	SZ\|SWZ\|748	SWZ	.sz
Ethiopia	ETH	ET\|ETH\|231	ETH	.et
Europa Island	XEU	-	-	-	administered as part of French Southern and Antarctic Lands; no ISO codes assigned
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	FLK	FK\|FLK\|238	FLK	.fk
Faroe Islands	FRO	FO\|FRO\|234	FRO	.fo
Fiji	FJI	FJ\|FJI\|242	FJI	.fj
Finland	FIN	FI\|FIN\|246	FIN	.fi
France	FRA	FR\|FRA\|250	FRA	.fr	ISO includes metropolitan France along with the dependencies of Clipperton Island, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna
France, Metropolitan	-	FX\|FXX\|249	-	.fx	ISO limits to the European part of France
French Guiana	GUF	GF\|GUF\|254	GUF	.gf
French Polynesia	PYF	PF\|PYF\|258	PYF	.pf
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	ATF	TF\|ATF\|260	ATF	.tf	GENC does not include the French-claimed portion of Antarctica (Terre Adelie)
Gabon	GAB	GA\|GAB\|266	GAB	.ga
Gambia, The	GMB	GM\|GMB\|270	GMB	.gm
Gaza Strip	XGZ	PS\|PSE\|275	PSE	.ps	ISO identifies as Occupied Palestinian Territory
Georgia	GEO	GE\|GEO\|268	GEO	.ge
Germany	DEU	DE\|DEU\|276	DEU	.de
Ghana	GHA	GH\|GHA\|288	GHA	.gh
Gibraltar	GIB	GI\|GIB\|292	GIB	.gi
Glorioso Islands	XGL	-	-	-	administered as part of French Southern and Antarctic Lands; no ISO codes assigned
Greece	GRC	GR\|GRC\|300	GRC	.gr	For its internal communications, the European Union recommends the use of the code EL in lieu of the ISO 3166-2 code of GR
Greenland	GRL	GL\|GRL\|304	GRL	.gl
Grenada	GRD	GD\|GRD\|308	GRD	.gd
Guadeloupe	GLP	GP\|GLP\|312	GLP	.gp
Guam	GUM	GU\|GUM\|316	GUM	.gu
Guatemala	GTM	GT\|GTM\|320	GTM	.gt
Guernsey	GGY	GG\|GGY\|831	UK	.gg
Guinea	GIN	GN\|GIN\|324	GIN	.gn
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	GW\|GNB\|624	GNB	.gw
Guyana	GUY	GY\|GUY\|328	GUY	.gy
Haiti	HTI	HT\|HTI\|332	HTI	.ht
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	HMD	HM\|HMD\|334	HMD	.hm
Holy See (Vatican City)	VAT	VA\|VAT\|336	VAT	.va
Honduras	HND	HN\|HND\|340	HND	.hn
Hong Kong	HKG	HK\|HKG\|344	HKG	.hk
Howland Island	XHO	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Hungary	HUN	HU\|HUN\|348	HUN	.hu
Iceland	ISL	IS\|ISL\|352	ISL	.is
India	IND	IN\|IND\|356	IND	.in
Indonesia	IDN	ID\|IDN\|360	IDN	.id
Iran	IRN	IR\|IRN\|364	IRN	.ir
Iraq	IRQ	IQ\|IRQ\|368	IRQ	.iq
Ireland	IRL	IE\|IRL\|372	IRL	.ie
Isle of Man	IMN	IM\|IMN\|833	UK	.im
Israel	ISR	IL\|ISR\|376	ISR	.il
Italy	ITA	IT\|ITA\|380	ITA	.it
Jamaica	JAM	JM\|JAM\|388	JAM	.jm
Jan Mayen	XJM	-	SJM	-	ISO includes with Svalbard
Japan	JPN	JP\|JPN\|392	JPN	.jp
Jarvis Island	XJV	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Jersey	JEY	JE\|JEY\|832	UK	.je
Johnston Atoll	XJA	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Jordan	JOR	JO\|JOR\|400	JOR	.jo
Juan de Nova Island	XJN	-	-	-	administered as part of French Southern and Antarctic Lands; no ISO codes assigned
Kazakhstan	KAZ	KZ\|KAZ\|398	KAZ	.kz
Kenya	KEN	KE\|KEN\|404	KEN	.ke
Kingman Reef	XKR	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Kiribati	KIR	KI\|KIR\|296	KIR	.ki
Korea, North	PRK	KP\|PRK\|408	PRK	.kp
Korea, South	KOR	KR\|KOR\|410	KOR	.kr
Kosovo	XKS	XK\|XKS\|	-	-	XK and XKS are ISO 3166 user assigned codes; ISO 3166 Maintenace Authority has not assigned codes
Kuwait	KWT	KW\|KWT\|414	KWT	.kw
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	KG\|KGZ\|417	KGZ	.kg
Laos	LAO	LA\|LAO\|418	LAO	.la
Latvia	LVA	LV\|LVA\|428	LVA	.lv
Lebanon	LBN	LB\|LBN\|422	LBN	.lb
Lesotho	LSO	LS\|LSO\|426	LSO	.ls
Liberia	LBR	LR\|LBR\|430	LBR	.lr
Libya	LBY	LY\|LBY\|434	LBY	.ly
Liechtenstein	LIE	LI\|LIE\|438	LIE	.li
Lithuania	LTU	LT\|LTU\|440	LTU	.lt
Luxembourg	LUX	LU\|LUX\|442	LUX	.lu
Macau	MAC	MO\|MAC\|446	MAC	.mo
Madagascar	MDG	MG\|MDG\|450	MDG	.mg
Malawi	MWI	MW\|MWI\|454	MWI	.mw
Malaysia	MYS	MY\|MYS\|458	MYS	.my
Maldives	MDV	MV\|MDV\|462	MDV	.mv
Mali	MLI	ML\|MLI\|466	MLI	.ml
Malta	MLT	MT\|MLT\|470	MLT	.mt
Marshall Islands	MHL	MH\|MHL\|584	MHL	.mh
Martinique	MTQ	MQ\|MTQ\|474	MTQ	.mq
Mauritania	MRT	MR\|MRT\|478	MRT	.mr
Mauritius	MUS	MU\|MUS\|480	MUS	.mu
Mayotte	MYT	YT\|MYT\|175	FRA	.yt
Mexico	MEX	MX\|MEX\|484	MEX	.mx
Micronesia, Federated States of	FSM	FM\|FSM\|583	FSM	.fm
Midway Islands	XMW	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Moldova	MDA	MD\|MDA\|498	MDA	.md
Monaco	MCO	MC\|MCO\|492	MCO	.mc
Mongolia	MNG	MN\|MNG\|496	MNG	.mn
Montenegro	MNE	ME\|MNE\|499	MNE	.me
Montserrat	MSR	MS\|MSR\|500	MSR	.ms
Morocco	MAR	MA\|MAR\|504	MAR	.ma
Mozambique	MOZ	MZ\|MOZ\|508	MOZ	.mz
Myanmar	-	-	-	-	see Burma
Namibia	NAM	NA\|NAM\|516	NAM	.na
Nauru	NRU	NR\|NRU\|520	NRU	.nr
Navassa Island	XNV	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Nepal	NPL	NP\|NPL\|524	NPL	.np
Netherlands	NLD	NL\|NLD\|528	NLD	.nl
New Caledonia	NCL	NC\|NCL\|540	NCL	.nc
New Zealand	NZL	NZ\|NZL\|554	NZL	.nz
Nicaragua	NIC	NI\|NIC\|558	NIC	.ni
Niger	NER	NE\|NER\|562	NER	.ne
Nigeria	NGA	NG\|NGA\|566	NGA	.ng
Niue	NIU	NU\|NIU\|570	NIU	.nu
Norfolk Island	NFK	NF\|NFK\|574	NFK	.nf
North Macedonia	MKD	MK\|MKD\|807	FYR	.mk
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP	MP\|MNP\|580	MNP	.mp
Norway	NOR	NO\|NOR\|578	NOR	.no
Oman	OMN	OM\|OMN\|512	OMN	.om
Pakistan	PAK	PK\|PAK\|586	PAK	.pk
Palau	PLW	PW\|PLW\|585	PLW	.pw
Palmyra Atoll	XPL	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Panama	PAN	PA\|PAN\|591	PAN	.pa
Papua New Guinea	PNG	PG\|PNG\|598	PNG	.pg
Paracel Islands	XPR	-	-	-
Paraguay	PRY	PY\|PRY\|600	PRY	.py
Peru	PER	PE\|PER\|604	PER	.pe
Philippines	PHL	PH\|PHL\|608	PHL	.ph
Pitcairn Islands	PCN	PN\|PCN\|612	PCN	.pn
Poland	POL	PL\|POL\|616	POL	.pl
Portugal	PRT	PT\|PRT\|620	PRT	.pt
Puerto Rico	PRI	PR\|PRI\|630	PRI	.pr
Qatar	QAT	QA\|QAT\|634	QAT	.qa
Reunion	REU	RE\|REU\|638	REU	.re
Romania	ROU	RO\|ROU\|642	ROU	.ro
Russia	RUS	RU\|RUS\|643	RUS	.ru
Rwanda	RWA	RW\|RWA\|646	RWA	.rw
Saint Barthelemy	BLM	BL\|BLM\|652	-	.bl	ccTLD .fr and .gp may also be used
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	SHN	SH\|SHN\|654	SHN	.sh	includes Saint Helena Island, Ascension Island, and the Tristan da Cunha archipelago
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KNA	KN\|KNA\|659	KNA	.kn
Saint Lucia	LCA	LC\|LCA\|662	LCA	.lc
Saint Martin	MAF	MF\|MAF\|663	-	.mf	ccTLD .fr and .gp may also be used
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	SPM	PM\|SPM\|666	SPM	.pm
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	VCT	VC\|VCT\|670	VCT	.vc
Samoa	WSM	WS\|WSM\|882	WSM	.ws
San Marino	SMR	SM\|SMR\|674	SMR	.sm
Sao Tome and Principe	STP	ST\|STP\|678	STP	.st
Saudi Arabia	SAU	SA\|SAU\|682	SAU	.sa
Senegal	SEN	SN\|SEN\|686	SEN	.sn
Serbia	SRB	RS\|SRB\|688	-	.rs
Seychelles	SYC	SC\|SYC\|690	SYC	.sc
Sierra Leone	SLE	SL\|SLE\|694	SLE	.sl
Singapore	SGP	SG\|SGP\|702	SGP	.sg
Sint Maarten	SXM	SX\|SXM\|534	-	.sx
Slovakia	SVK	SK\|SVK\|703	SVK	.sk
Slovenia	SVN	SI\|SVN\|705	SVN	.si
Solomon Islands	SLB	SB\|SLB\|090	SLB	.sb
Somalia	SOM	SO\|SOM\|706	SOM	.so
South Africa	ZAF	ZA\|ZAF\|710	ZAF	.za
South Georgia and the Islands	SGS	GS\|SGS\|239	SGS	.gs
South Sudan	SSD	SS\|SSD\|728	-	-	IANA has designated .ss as the ccTLD for South Sudan, however it has not been activated in DNS root zone
Spain	ESP	ES\|ESP\|724	ESP	.es
Spratly Islands	XSP	-	-	-
Sri Lanka	LKA	LK\|LKA\|144	LKA	.lk
Sudan	SDN	SD\|SDN\|729	SDN	.sd
Suriname	SUR	SR\|SUR\|740	SUR	.sr
Svalbard	XSV	SJ\|SJM\|744	SJM	.sj	ISO includes Jan Mayen
Sweden	SWE	SE\|SWE\|752	SWE	.se
Switzerland	CHE	CH\|CHE\|756	CHE	.ch
Syria	SYR	SY\|SYR\|760	SYR	.sy
Taiwan	TWN	TW\|TWN\|158	TWN	.tw
Tajikistan	TJK	TJ\|TJK\|762	TJK	.tj
Tanzania	TZA	TZ\|TZA\|834	TZA	.tz
Thailand	THA	TH\|THA\|764	THA	.th
Timor-Leste	TLS	TL\|TLS\|626	TLS	.tl
Togo	TGO	TG\|TGO\|768	TGO	.tg
Tokelau	TKL	TK\|TKL\|772	TKL	.tk
Tonga	TON	TO\|TON\|776	TON	.to
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	TT\|TTO\|780	TTO	.tt
Tromelin Island	XTR	-	-	-	administered as part of French Southern and Antarctic Lands; no ISO codes assigned
Tunisia	TUN	TN\|TUN\|788	TUN	.tn
Turkey (Turkiye)	TUR	TR\|TUR\|792	TUR	.tr
Turkmenistan	TKM	TM\|TKM\|795	TKM	.tm
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	TC\|TCA\|796	TCA	.tc
Tuvalu	TUV	TV\|TUV\|798	TUV	.tv
Uganda	UGA	UG\|UGA\|800	UGA	.ug
Ukraine	UKR	UA\|UKR\|804	UKR	.ua
United Arab Emirates	ARE	AE\|ARE\|784	ARE	.ae
United Kingdom	GBR	GB\|GBR\|826	GBR	.uk	for its internal communications, the European Union recommends the use of the code UK in lieu of the ISO 3166-2 code of GB
United States	USA	US\|USA\|840	USA	.us
United States Minor Outlying Islands	-	UM\|UMI\|581	-	.um	ISO includes Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island
Uruguay	URY	UY\|URY\|858	URY	.uy
Uzbekistan	UZB	UZ\|UZB\|860	UZB	.uz
Vanuatu	VUT	VU\|VUT\|548	VUT	.vu
Venezuela	VEN	VE\|VEN\|862	VEN	.ve
Vietnam	VNM	VN\|VNM\|704	VNM	.vn
Virgin Islands	VIR	VI\|VIR\|850	VIR	.vi
Virgin Islands (UK)	-	-	-	.vg	see British Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands (US)	-	-	-	.vi	see Virgin Islands
Wake Island	XWK	-	UMI	-	ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands
Wallis and Futuna	WLF	WF\|WLF\|876	WLF	.wf
West Bank	XWB	PS\|PSE\|275	PSE	.ps	ISO identifies as Occupied Palestinian Territory
Western Sahara	WI	EH\|ESH\|732	ESH	.eh
Western Samoa	-	-	-	.ws	see Samoa
World	-	-	-	-	the Factbook uses the W data code from DIAM 65-18 Geopolitical Data Elements and Related Features, Data Standard No. 3, December 1994, published by the Defense Intelligence Agency
Yemen	YEM	YE\|YEM\|887	YEM	.ye
Zaire	-	-	-	-	see Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zambia	ZMB	ZM\|ZMB\|894	ZMB	.zm
Zimbabwe	ZWE	ZW\|ZWE\|716	ZWE	.zw