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Comparison of alphabetic country codes

This is a comparison of the IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166-1 three-letter codes, combined into one table for easy reference. Highlighted rows indicate those entries in which the three-letter codes differ from column to column. The last column indicates the number of codes present followed by letters to indicate which codes are present (O for Olympic, F for FIFA, and I for ISO) and dashes when a code is absent; capital letters indicate codes which match; lower case letters indicate codes which differ.[1]

Ambiguities edit

Currently, the only ambiguous trigraph between IOC, FIFA and ISO codes is:

Historically, ambiguous trigraphs include:

In the following cases, a code for a historical country or territory matches a modern code of the country it merged into:

  • VNM - historical IOC and ISO code for South Vietnam, became the ISO code for unified Vietnam
  • YEM - historical ISO code for the North Yemen, became the generally accepted code for unified Yemen

Including other lists of country three-letter-codes increases the number of ambiguities. For example:

List edit

This list only includes nations or territories that have been assigned at least one of these three types of country codes. For a more complete list of countries, see list of countries.

Flag Country IOC FIFA ISO *
  Afghanistan AFG AFG AFG 3OFI
  Åland ALA 1--ï
  Albania ALB ALB ALB 3OFI
  Algeria ALG ALG DZA 3OFï
  American Samoa[2] ASA ASA ASM 3OFï
  Andorra AND AND AND 3OFI
  Angola ANG ANG AGO 3OFï
  Anguilla AIA AIA 2-FI
  Antarctica ATA 1--ï
  Antigua and Barbuda ANT ATG ATG 3öFI
  Argentina ARG ARG ARG 3OFI
  Armenia ARM ARM ARM 3OFI
  Aruba ARU ARU ABW 3OFï
  Australia AUS AUS AUS 3OFI
  Austria AUT AUT AUT 3OFI
  Azerbaijan AZE AZE AZE 3OFI
  The Bahamas BAH BAH BHS 3OFï
  Bahrain BRN BHR BHR 3öFI
  Bangladesh BAN BAN BGD 3OFï
  Barbados BAR BRB BRB 3öFI
  Belarus BLR BLR BLR 3OFI
  Belgium BEL BEL BEL 3OFI
  Belize BIZ BLZ BLZ 3öFI
  Benin BEN BEN BEN 3OFI
  Bermuda BER BER BMU 3OFï
  Bhutan BHU BHU BTN 3OFï
  Bolivia BOL BOL BOL 3OFI
  Caribbean Netherlands: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba BES 1--ï
  Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH BIH BIH 3OFI
  Botswana BOT BOT BWA 3OFï
  Bouvet Island BVT 1--ï
  Brazil BRA BRA BRA 3OFI
  British Indian Ocean Territory IOT 1--ï
  British Virgin Islands[3] IVB VGB VGB 3öFI
  Brunei BRU BRU BRN 3OFï
  Bulgaria BUL BUL BGR 3OFï
  Burkina Faso BUR BFA BFA 3öFI
  Burundi BDI BDI BDI 3OFI
  Cambodia CAM CAM KHM 3OFï
  Cameroon CMR CMR CMR 3OFI
  Canada CAN CAN CAN 3OFI
  Cape Verde CPV CPV CPV 3OFI
  Cayman Islands CAY CAY CYM 3OFï
  Central African Republic CAF CTA CAF 3OƒI
  Chad CHA CHA TCD 3OFï
  Chile CHI CHI CHL 3OFï
  China, People's Republic of[4] CHN CHN CHN 3OFI
  Christmas Island CXR 1--ï
  Cocos (Keeling) Islands CCK 1--ï
  Colombia COL COL COL 3OFI
  Comoros COM COM COM 3OFI
  Congo, Democratic Republic of the[5] COD COD COD 3OFI
  Congo, Republic of the[6] CGO CGO COG 3OFï
  Cook Islands COK COK COK 3OFI
  Costa Rica CRC CRC CRI 3OFï
  Côte d'Ivoire CIV CIV CIV 3OFI
  Croatia CRO CRO HRV 3OFï
  Cuba CUB CUB CUB 3OFI
  Curaçao CUW CUW 2-FI
  Cyprus CYP CYP CYP 3OFI
  Czech Republic CZE CZE CZE 3OFI
  Denmark DEN DEN DNK 3OFï
  Djibouti DJI DJI DJI 3OFI
  Dominica DMA DMA DMA 3OFI
  Dominican Republic DOM DOM DOM 3OFI
  Ecuador ECU ECU ECU 3OFI
  Egypt EGY EGY EGY 3OFI
  El Salvador ESA SLV SLV 3öFI
  England ENG [7] 1-ƒ-
  Equatorial Guinea GEQ EQG GNQ 3öƒï
  Eritrea ERI ERI ERI 3OFI
  Estonia EST EST EST 3OFI
  Eswatini SWZ SWZ SWZ 3OFI
  Ethiopia ETH ETH ETH 3OFI
  Falkland Islands FLK 1--ï
  Faroe Islands [8] FRO FRO 2-FI
  Fiji FIJ FIJ FJI 3OFï
  Finland FIN FIN FIN 3OFI
  France FRA FRA FRA 3OFI
  French Guiana GUF 1--ï
  French Polynesia[9] TAH PYF 2-ƒï
  French Southern and Antarctic Lands ATF 1--ï
  Gabon GAB GAB GAB 3OFI
  The Gambia GAM GAM GMB 3OFï
  Georgia GEO GEO GEO 3OFI
  Germany GER GER DEU 3OFï
  Ghana GHA GHA GHA 3OFI
  Gibraltar GIB GIB 2-FI
  Greece GRE GRE GRC 3OFï
  Greenland GRL 1--ï
  Grenada GRN GRN GRD 3OFï
  Guadeloupe GLP 1--ï
  Guam GUM GUM GUM 3OFI
  Guatemala GUA GUA GTM 3OFï
  Guernsey GGY 1--ï
  Guinea GUI GUI GIN 3OFï
  Guinea-Bissau GBS GNB GNB 3öFI
  Guyana GUY GUY GUY 3OFI
  Haiti HAI HAI HTI 3OFï
  Heard Island and McDonald Islands HMD 1--ï
  Honduras HON HON HND 3OFï
  Hong Kong[10] HKG HKG HKG 3OFI
  Hungary HUN HUN HUN 3OFI
  Iceland ISL ISL ISL 3OFI
  India IND IND IND 3OFI
  Indonesia INA IDN IDN 3öFI
  Iran IRI IRN IRN 3öFI
  Iraq IRQ IRQ IRQ 3OFI
  Ireland[11] IRL IRL IRL 3OFI
  Isle of Man IMN 1--ï
  Israel ISR ISR ISR 3OFI
  Italy ITA ITA ITA 3OFI
  Jamaica JAM JAM JAM 3OFI
  Japan JPN JPN JPN 3OFI
  Jersey JEY 1--ï
  Jordan JOR JOR JOR 3OFI
  Kazakhstan KAZ KAZ KAZ 3OFI
  Kenya KEN KEN KEN 3OFI
  Kiribati KIR KIR 2O-I
  Korea, Democratic People's Rep. (North)[12] PRK PRK PRK 3OFI
  Korea, Republic of (South)[13] KOR KOR KOR 3OFI
  Kosovo KOS KOS [14] 2OF-
  Kuwait KUW KUW KWT 3OFï
  Kyrgyzstan KGZ KGZ KGZ 3OFI
  Laos LAO LAO LAO 3OFI
  Latvia LAT LVA LVA 3öFI
  Lebanon LBN LBN LBN 3OFI
  Lesotho LES LES LSO 3OFï
  Liberia LBR LBR LBR 3OFI
  Libya LBA LBY LBY 3öFI
  Liechtenstein LIE LIE LIE 3OFI
  Lithuania LTU LTU LTU 3OFI
  Luxembourg LUX LUX LUX 3OFI
  Macau MAC MAC 2-FI
  Madagascar MAD MAD MDG 3OFï
  Malawi MAW MWI MWI 3öFI
  Malaysia MAS MAS MYS 3OFï
  Maldives MDV MDV MDV 3OFI
  Mali MLI MLI MLI 3OFI
  Malta MLT MLT MLT 3OFI
  Marshall Islands MHL MHL 2O-I
  Martinique MTQ 1--ï
  Mauritania MTN MTN MRT 3OFï
  Mauritius MRI MRI MUS 3OFï
  Mayotte MYT 1--ï
  Mexico MEX MEX MEX 3OFI
  Micronesia, Federated States of FSM FSM 2O-I
  Moldova MDA MDA MDA 3OFI
  Monaco MON MCO 2ö-ï
  Mongolia MGL MNG MNG 3öFI
  Montenegro MNE MNE MNE 3OFI
  Montserrat MSR MSR 2-FI
  Morocco MAR MAR MAR 3OFI
  Mozambique MOZ MOZ MOZ 3OFI
  Myanmar MYA MYA MMR 3OFï
  Namibia NAM NAM NAM 3OFI
  Nauru NRU NRU 2O-I
  Nepal NEP NEP NPL 3OFï
  Netherlands NED NED NLD 3OFï
  New Caledonia NCL NCL 2-FI
  New Zealand NZL NZL NZL 3OFI
  Nicaragua NCA NCA NIC 3OFï
  Niger NIG NIG NER 3OFï
  Nigeria NGR NGA NGA 3öFI
  Niue NIU 1--ï
  Norfolk Island NFK 1--ï
 [15] Northern Ireland NIR [7] 1-ƒ-
  Northern Mariana Islands MNP 1--ï
  North Macedonia[16] MKD MKD MKD 3OFI
  Norway NOR NOR NOR 3OFI
  Oman OMA OMA OMN 3OFï
  Pakistan PAK PAK PAK 3OFI
  Palau PLW PLW 2O-I
  Palestine PLE PLE PSE 3OFï
  Panama PAN PAN PAN 3OFI
  Papua New Guinea PNG PNG PNG 3OFI
  Paraguay PAR PAR PRY 3OFï
  Peru PER PER PER 3OFI
  Philippines PHI PHI PHL 3OFï
  Pitcairn Islands PCN 1--ï
  Poland POL POL POL 3OFI
  Portugal POR POR PRT 3OFï
  Puerto Rico PUR PUR PRI 3OFï
  Qatar QAT QAT QAT 3OFI
  Réunion REU 1--ï
  Romania ROU ROU ROU 3OFI
  Russian Federation RUS RUS RUS 3OFI
  Rwanda RWA RWA RWA 3OFI
  Saint Barthélemy BLM 1--ï
  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha SHN 1--ï
  Saint Kitts and Nevis SKN SKN KNA 3OFï
  Saint Lucia LCA LCA LCA 3OFI
  Saint Martin (French part) MAF 1--ï
  Saint Pierre and Miquelon SPM 1--ï
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VIN VIN VCT 3OFï
  Samoa[2] SAM SAM WSM 3OFï
  San Marino SMR SMR SMR 3OFI
  São Tomé and Príncipe STP STP STP 3OFI
  Saudi Arabia KSA KSA SAU 3OFï
  Scotland SCO [7] 1-ƒ-
  Senegal SEN SEN SEN 3OFI
  Serbia SRB SRB SRB 3OFI
  Seychelles SEY SEY SYC 3OFï
  Sierra Leone SLE SLE SLE 3OFI
  Singapore SGP SGP SGP 3OFI
  Sint Maarten (Dutch part) SXM 1--ï
  Slovakia SVK SVK SVK 3OFI
  Slovenia SLO SVN SVN 3öFI
  Solomon Islands SOL SOL SLB 3OFï
  Somalia SOM SOM SOM 3OFI
  South Africa RSA RSA ZAF 3OFï
  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands SGS 1--ï
  South Sudan SSD SSD SSD 3OFI
  Spain ESP ESP ESP 3OFI
  Sri Lanka SRI SRI LKA 3OFï
  Sudan SUD SDN SDN 3öFI
  Suriname SUR SUR SUR 3OFI
  Svalbard and Jan Mayen SJM 1--ï
  Sweden SWE SWE SWE 3OFI
  Switzerland SUI SUI CHE 3OFï
  Syria SYR SYR SYR 3OFI
  Taiwan[17] TPE TPE TWN 3OFï
  Tajikistan TJK TJK TJK 3OFI
  Tanzania TAN TAN TZA 3OFï
  Thailand THA THA THA 3OFI
  Timor-Leste[18] TLS TLS TLS 3OFI
  Togo TOG TOG TGO 3OFï
  Tokelau TKL 1--ï
  Tonga TGA TGA TON 3OFï
  Trinidad and Tobago TTO TRI TTO 3OƒI
  Tunisia TUN TUN TUN 3OFI
  Turkey TUR TUR TUR 3OFI
  Turkmenistan TKM TKM TKM 3OFI
  Turks and Caicos Islands TCA TCA 2-FI
  Tuvalu TUV TUV 2O-I
  Uganda UGA UGA UGA 3OFI
  Ukraine UKR UKR UKR 3OFI
  United Arab Emirates UAE UAE ARE 3OFï
  United Kingdom[19] GBR GBR 2O-I
  United States USA USA USA 3OFI
  United States Minor Outlying Islands UMI 1--ï
  United States Virgin Islands[20] ISV VIR VIR 3öFI
  Uruguay URU URU URY 3OFï
  Uzbekistan UZB UZB UZB 3OFI
  Vanuatu VAN VAN VUT 3OFï
  Vatican City State VAT 1--ï
  Venezuela VEN VEN VEN 3OFI
  Vietnam VIE VIE VNM 3OFï
  Wales WAL [7] 1-ƒ-
  Wallis and Futuna WLF 1--ï
  Western Sahara ESH 1--ï
  Yemen YEM YEM YEM 3OFI
  Zambia ZAM ZAM ZMB 3OFï
  Zimbabwe ZIM ZIM ZWE 3OFï
*
3OFI IOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist and are identical
3OFï IOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist, but only IOC and FIFA codes are identical
3OƒI IOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist, but only IOC and ISO codes are identical
3öFI IOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist, but only FIFA and ISO codes are identical
3öƒï IOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist and are different
2OF- Only IOC and FIFA codes exist and are identical
2O-I Only IOC and ISO codes exist and are identical
2ö-ï Only IOC and ISO codes exist and are different
2-FI Only FIFA and ISO codes exist and are identical
2-ĕ Only FIFA and ISO codes exist and are different
1-ƒ- Only FIFA codes exist
1--ï Only ISO codes exist

Former countries and former country names edit

Codes are shown with their last year of use.

Flag Country IOC FIFA ISO
  British Honduras HBR
1972		 BHO
 
  Burma BIR
1988		 BUR
1989		 BUR
1989
  Ceylon CEY
1972		 CEY
1972
  Dahomey DAH
1972		 DAH
1975		 DHY
1977
  Czechoslovakia TCH
1992		 TCH
1993		 CSK
1993
  East Germany GDR
1988		 GDR
1990		 DDR
1990
  Khmer Republic KHM
1976		 ?
1975
  Malaya MAL
1960		 ?
1963
  Netherlands Antilles AHO
2010		 ANT
2010		 ANT
2010
  North Borneo NBO
1956		 NBO
1963
  North Yemen YAR
1988		 NYE
1990		 YEM
1990
  Northern Rhodesia NRH
1964		 NRH
1964
  Rhodesia RHO
1972		 RHO
1980		 RHO
1980
  Serbia and Montenegro SCG
2006		 SCG
2006		 SCG
2006
  South Yemen YMD
1988		 SYE
1990		 YMD
1990
  Soviet Union URS
1988		 URS
1991		 SUN
1992
  Upper Volta VOL
1984		 UPV
1984		 HVO
1984
  Viet Nam, Democratic Republic of n.a. VNO
1975		 VDR
1977
  Viet Nam, Republic of VNM
1976		 VSO
1975		 VNM
1977
  West Germany FRG
1988		 FRG
1990		 DEU
1990
  Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of YUG
2002		 YUG
2003		 YUG
2003
  Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of YUG
1992		 YUG
1992		 YUG
1992
  Zaire ZAI
1996		 ZAI
1997		 ZAR
1997

Notes edit

  1. ^ ISO and FIFA code BHR
  2. ^ IOC and FIFA code BRU
  3. ^ current ISO and FIFA code ATG
  4. ^ IOC code AHO from French Antilles hollandaises
  5. ^ The Netherlands Antilles as a constituent country of the Netherlands was dissolved in 2010, with all island territories remaining a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands but with various legal statuses.
  6. ^ ISO and FIFA code BFA
  7. ^ previously Burkina Faso was Upper Volta, and the IOC code was VOL
  8. ^ IOC code BIR, from French Birmanie
  9. ^ at which point Burma became Myanmar and the FIFA and IOC codes became MYA, while the ISO code became MMR

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Jeffree, Iain. "FIFA Country Codes". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 19 September 2000. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b The name "Samoa" in a political sense contains only the Independent State of Samoa and excludes American Samoa.
  3. ^ In Olympic Games, Virgin Islands means the United States Virgin Islands, not British Virgin Islands.
  4. ^ Mainland China (People's Republic of China except Hong Kong and Macau) is designated as the "People's Republic of China", ("China" for short) in Olympic Games, and as "China PR", ("China" for short) in football matches.
  5. ^ The Democratic Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "DR Congo" in Olympic Games, and as "Congo DR" in football matches.
  6. ^ The Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "Congo" in Olympic Games and football matches.
  7. ^ a b c d England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are given the ISO 3166-2 codes GB-ENG, GB-NIR, GB-SCT and GB-WLS, respectively, under the entry for the United Kingdom.
  8. ^ IOC considers Faroe Islands as a part of Denmark. However, Faroe Islands Paralympic Committee is a member of International Paralympic Committee, encoded as FRO.
  9. ^ Competes as "Tahiti" in international football
  10. ^ Hong Kong is designated as "Hong Kong, China" by the IOC, and "Hong Kong" in football matches.
  11. ^ It covers only the Republic of Ireland in the Olympic Games and football matches. In FIFA, the name "Republic of Ireland" is used in order to distinguish from Ireland as a former home nation of the United Kingdom.
  12. ^ North Korea is designated as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", abbreviated to "DPRK", in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea DPR" in football matches.
  13. ^ South Korea is designated as "Republic of Korea" in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea Republic" in football matches.
  14. ^ With mixed International recognition of Kosovo, for ISO purposes, Kosovo is an 'autonomous province' of Serbia with ISO 3166-2 code RS-KM, under the entry for Serbia. A temporary placeholder code XKX is used by several organisations for the country.
  15. ^ Northern Ireland has no official flag. The Ulster Banner is used by FIFA to represent Northern Ireland.
  16. ^ North Macedonia was previously designated as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in Olympic Games, football matches and most international organisations until the resolution of the Macedonia naming dispute with the implementation of the Prespa agreement in February 2019.
  17. ^ TW and TWN is defined as "Taiwan, Province of China" in the ISO 3166 codes list. The Republic of China is designated as "  Chinese Taipei" in Olympic Games and football matches. See also Chinese Taipei and the Political status of Taiwan.
  18. ^ Timor-Leste is generally known in English as "East Timor". West Timor is a part of Indonesia.
  19. ^ The United Kingdom's short names generally used in the Olympic Games are "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" or just "Great Britain", not the "United Kingdom".[citation needed] In FIFA, its four constituent countries have separate codes.
  20. ^ The United States Virgin Islands is designated as just Virgin Islands in Olympic Games.
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