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.
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.
The only ambiguous trigraph is "BRN", which stands for Bahrain in IOC code and for Brunei in ISO code.
Flag | Country | IOC | FIFA | ISO | * |
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Afghanistan | AFG | AFG | AFG | 3OFI | |
Åland Islands | ALA | 1--ï | |||
Albania | ALB | ALB | ALB | 3OFI | |
Algeria | ALG | ALG | DZA | 3OFï | |
American Samoa[1] | 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[2] | 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[3] | 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[4] | COD | COD | COD | 3OFI | |
Congo, Republic of the[5] | 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 | [6] | 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 | 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[7] | TAH | PYF | 2-ĕ | ||
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[8] | 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[9] | 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)[10] | PRK | PRK | PRK | 3OFI | |
Korea, Republic of (South)[11] | KOR | KOR | KOR | 3OFI | |
Kosovo | KOS | KVX | [12] | 2öƒ- | |
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 | |||
Northern Ireland | NIR | [6] | 1-ƒ- | ||
Northern Mariana Islands | MNP | 1--ï | |||
North Macedonia[13] | MKD | MKD | MKD | 3OFI | |
Norway | NOR | NOR | NOR | 3OFI | |
Oman | OMA | OMA | OMN | 3OFï | |
Pakistan | PAK | PAK | PAK | 3OFI | |
Palau | PLW | PLW | 2O-I | ||
State of 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[1] | 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 | [6] | 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 | SIN | SGP | 3OƒI | |
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[14] | TPE | TPE | TWN | 3OFï | |
Tajikistan | TJK | TJK | TJK | 3OFI | |
Tanzania | TAN | TAN | TZA | 3OFï | |
Thailand | THA | THA | THA | 3OFI | |
Timor-Leste[15] | 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[16] | GBR | GBR | 2O-I | ||
United States | USA | USA | USA | 3OFI | |
United States Minor Outlying Islands | UMI | 1--ï | |||
United States Virgin Islands[17] | 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 | [6] | 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 |
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Former countries and former country names
Codes are shown with their last year of use.
Flag | Country | IOC | FIFA | ISO |
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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 | DDR 1989 | DDR 1989 | |
Khmer Republic | KHM 1976 | ? 1975 | ||
Malaya | MAL 1960 | ? 1963 | ||
Netherlands Antilles | AHO 2011 | ANT 2011 | 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 | VNO 1975 | VDR 1977 | ||
Viet Nam, Republic of | VNM 1976 | VSO 1975 | VNM 1977 | |
West Germany | FRG 1988 | FRG 1989 | DEU 1989 | |
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
- The name "Samoa" in a political sense contains only the Independent State of Samoa and excludes American Samoa.
- In Olympic Games, Virgin Islands means the United States Virgin Islands, not British Virgin Islands.
- 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.
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as the "DR Congo" in Olympic Games, and as "Congo DR" in football matches.
- The Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "Congo" in Olympic Games and football matches.
- 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.
- Competes as "Tahiti" in international football
- Hong Kong is designated as "Hong Kong, China" by the IOC, and "Hong Kong" in football matches.
- 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.
- 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.
- South Korea is designated as "Korea" in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea Republic" in football matches.
- 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.
- The Republic of Macedonia is designated as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in Olympic Games and football matches. See also Macedonia naming dispute.
- 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. - Timor-Leste is generally known in English as "East Timor". West Timor is a part of Indonesia.
- 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". In FIFA, its four constituent countries have separate codes.
- The United States Virgin Islands is designated as just Virgin Islands in Olympic Games.