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To search for a country, find it below and double-click on the country name if it is in blue. If it is in black then the country is not in the list of [[Countries]] which we use. (If a code is in red, this signifies an error.)
To search for a country, find it below and double-click on the country name if it is in blue. If it is in black then the country is not in the list of [[Countries]] which we use. (If a code is in red, this signifies an error.)
A country-like name in italics  - like ''[[Ascension Island]]'' - is not a country, being a former country, part of a country, unpopulated (no permanent resident community) or a statistical convenience.


Alternatively, you can type the country name into the search box - or type in the ISO country code from the list below.  
Alternatively, you can type the country name into the search box - or type in the ISO country code from the list below.  
'''Please ensure that you use Capital letters like [[AU]] - 2-letter sequences of the form capital/small (like '''Au''') are reserved for other purposes (chemical symbols, in fact).


Country codes are defined by the international standard [[ISO 3166]]. These codes are also the ones used for URLs - top-level domains in the World Wide Web.
Country codes are defined by the international standard [[ISO 3166]]. These codes are also the ones used for URLs - top-level domains in the World Wide Web.
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# [[AC]] - ''[[Ascension Island]]'' - part of [[St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]]
# [[AC]] - ''[[Ascension Island]]'' - part of [[St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]]
# [[AD]] - [[Andorra]]
# [[AD]] - [[Andorra]]
# [[AE]] - [[United Arab Emirates]]
# [[AE]] - [[United Arab Emirates]]
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# [[AL]] - [[Albania]]
# [[AL]] - [[Albania]]
# [[AM]] - [[Armenia]]
# [[AM]] - [[Armenia]]
# [[AN]] - [[Netherlands Antilles]]
# [[AN]] - ''[[Netherlands Antilles]]'' - country no longer exists
# [[AO]] - [[Angola]]
# [[AO]] - [[Angola]]
# [[AQ]] - [[Antarctica]]
# [[AQ]] - ''[[Antarctica]]'' - unpopulated territory
# [[AR]] - [[Argentina]]
# [[AR]] - [[Argentina]]
# [[AS]] - [[American Samoa]]
# [[AS]] - [[American Samoa]]
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# [[AU]] - [[Australia]]
# [[AU]] - [[Australia]]
# [[AW]] - [[Aruba]]
# [[AW]] - [[Aruba]]
# [[AX]] - [[Åland Islands]]
# [[AX]] - [[Aland Islands]]
# [[AZ]] - [[Azerbaijan]]
# [[AZ]] - [[Azerbaijan]]
# [[BA]] - [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
# [[BA]] - [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
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# [[BI]] - [[Burundi]]
# [[BI]] - [[Burundi]]
# [[BJ]] - [[Benin]]
# [[BJ]] - [[Benin]]
# [[BL]] - [[Saint Barthelemy]]
# [[BM]] - [[Bermuda]]
# [[BM]] - [[Bermuda]]
# [[BN]] - [[Brunei]]
# [[BN]] - [[Brunei]]
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# [[BS]] - [[Bahamas]]
# [[BS]] - [[Bahamas]]
# [[BT]] - [[Bhutan]]
# [[BT]] - [[Bhutan]]
# [[BV]] - [[Bouvet Island]] - unpopulated
# [[BV]] - ''[[Bouvet Island]]'' - unpopulated territory
# [[BW]] - [[Botswana]]
# [[BW]] - [[Botswana]]
# [[BY]] - [[Belarus]]
# [[BY]] - [[Belarus]]
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# [[CD]] - [[Congo Democratic Republic]]
# [[CD]] - [[Congo Democratic Republic]]
# [[CF]] - [[Central African Republic]]
# [[CF]] - [[Central African Republic]]
# [[CG]] - [[Congo Democratic Republic]]
# [[CG]] - [[Congo Republic]]
# [[CH]] - [[Switzerland]]
# [[CH]] - [[Switzerland]]
# [[CI]] - [[Ivory Coast]] ([[Cote D'Ivoire]] in French)
# [[CI]] - [[Cote D'Ivoire]] ([[Ivory Coast]])
# [[CK]] - [[Cook Islands]]
# [[CK]] - [[Cook Islands]]
# [[CL]] - [[Chile]]
# [[CL]] - [[Chile]]
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# [[CO]] - [[Colombia]]
# [[CO]] - [[Colombia]]
# [[CR]] - [[Costa Rica]]
# [[CR]] - [[Costa Rica]]
# '''CS''' - ''[[Czechoslovakia ]]'' (no longer a country: see [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]])
# '''CS''' - ''[[Czechoslovakia ]]'' - no longer a country: see [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]]
# [[CU]] - [[Cuba]]
# [[CU]] - [[Cuba]]
# [[CV]] - [[Cape Verde]]
# [[CV]] - [[Cape Verde]]
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# [[CY]] - [[Cyprus]]
# [[CY]] - [[Cyprus]]
# [[CZ]] - [[Czech Republic]]
# [[CZ]] - [[Czech Republic]]
# [[DE]] - [[Germany]]
# [[DE]] - [[Germany]] (German: [[Deutschland]])
# [[DJ]] - [[Djibouti]]
# [[DJ]] - [[Djibouti]]
# [[DK]] - [[Denmark]]
# [[DK]] - [[Denmark]]
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# [[EE]] - [[Estonia]]
# [[EE]] - [[Estonia]]
# [[EG]] - [[Egypt]]
# [[EG]] - [[Egypt]]
# [[EH]] - [[Western Sahara]]
# [[EH]] - [[Western Sahara]] ([[Sahrawi]])
# [[ER]] - [[Eritrea]]
# [[ER]] - [[Eritrea]]
# [[ES]] - [[Spain]]
# [[ES]] - [[Spain]] (Spanish: [[España]])
# [[ET]] - [[Ethiopia]]
# [[ET]] - [[Ethiopia]]
# [[FI]] - [[Finland]]
# [[FI]] - [[Finland]]
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# [[FO]] - [[Faroe Islands]]
# [[FO]] - [[Faroe Islands]]
# [[FR]] - [[France]]
# [[FR]] - [[France]]
# '''FX''' - [[France]] (Metropolitan - this code is not actually used)
# '''FX''' - [[France]] (Metropolitan) - this code is not actually used
# [[GA]] - [[Gabon]]
# [[GA]] - [[Gabon]]
# '''GB''' - [[United Kingdom]] ([[Great Britain]]) - not used (except on car number plates)
# '''GB''' - [[United Kingdom]] ([[Great Britain]]) - this code is not used (except on car number plates)
# [[GD]] - [[Grenada]]
# [[GD]] - [[Grenada]]
# [[GE]] - [[Georgia]]
# [[GE]] - [[Georgia]]
# [[GF]] - [[French Guiana]]
# [[GF]] - [[French Guiana]]
# [[GG]] - [[Guernsey]]
# [[GH]] - [[Ghana]]
# [[GH]] - [[Ghana]]
# [[GI]] - [[Gibraltar]]
# [[GI]] - [[Gibraltar]]
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# [[GY]] - [[Guyana]]
# [[GY]] - [[Guyana]]
# [[HK]] - [[Hong Kong]]
# [[HK]] - [[Hong Kong]]
# [[HM]] - [[Heard and McDonald Islands]]
# [[HM]] - ''[[Heard and McDonald Islands]]'' - unpopulated
# [[HN]] - [[Honduras]]
# [[HN]] - [[Honduras]]
# [[HR]] - [[Croatia]] (its truename is [[Hrvatska]])
# [[HR]] - [[Croatia]] (its truename is [[Hrvatska]])
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# [[IM]] - [[Isle of Man]]
# [[IM]] - [[Isle of Man]]
# [[IN]] - [[India]]
# [[IN]] - [[India]]
# [[IO]] - [[British Indian Ocean Territory]]
# [[IO]] - ''[[British Indian Ocean Territory]]'' - unpopulated
# [[IQ]] - [[Iraq]]
# [[IQ]] - [[Iraq]]
# [[IR]] - [[Iran]]
# [[IR]] - [[Iran]]
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# [[KE]] - [[Kenya]]
# [[KE]] - [[Kenya]]
# [[KG]] - [[Kyrgyzstan]]
# [[KG]] - [[Kyrgyzstan]]
# [[KH]] - [[Cambodia]] (country of the [[Khers]])
# [[KH]] - [[Cambodia]] (country of the [[Khmers]])
# [[KI]] - [[Kiribati]]
# [[KI]] - [[Kiribati]]
# [[KM]] - [[Comoros]]
# [[KM]] - [[Comoros]]
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# [[MC]] - [[Monaco]]
# [[MC]] - [[Monaco]]
# [[MD]] - [[Moldova]]
# [[MD]] - [[Moldova]]
# [[ME]] - [[Montenegro]]
# [[MG]] - [[Madagascar]]
# [[MG]] - [[Madagascar]]
# [[MH]] - [[Marshall Islands]]
# [[MH]] - [[Marshall Islands]]
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# [[NP]] - [[Nepal]]
# [[NP]] - [[Nepal]]
# [[NR]] - [[Nauru]]
# [[NR]] - [[Nauru]]
# '''NT''' - ''[[Neutral Zone]]'' (which no longer exists)
# '''NT''' - ''[[Neutral Zone]]'' - this no longer exists
# [[NU]] - [[Niue]]
# [[NU]] - [[Niue]]
# [[NZ]] - [[New Zealand]]
# [[NZ]] - [[New Zealand]]
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# [[PY]] - [[Paraguay]]
# [[PY]] - [[Paraguay]]
# [[QA]] - [[Qatar]]
# [[QA]] - [[Qatar]]
# [[RE]] - [[Réunion]]
# [[RE]] - [[Reunion]]
# [[RO]] - [[Romania]]
# [[RO]] - [[Romania]]
# [[RS]] - [[Serbia]]
# [[RS]] - [[Serbia]]
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# [[SH]] - ''[[St Helena]]'' - the main part of [[St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]]
# [[SH]] - ''[[St Helena]]'' - the main part of [[St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]]
# [[SI]] - [[Slovenia]]
# [[SI]] - [[Slovenia]]
# [[SJ]] - ''[[Svalbard and Jan Mayen]]'' (a group of two territories - see in particular [[Svalbard]])
# [[SJ]] - ''[[Svalbard and Jan Mayen]]'' - a group of two territories - see in particular [[Svalbard]]
# [[SK]] - [[Slovakia]]
# [[SK]] - [[Slovakia]]
# [[SL]] - [[Sierra Leone]]
# [[SL]] - [[Sierra Leone]]
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# [[SO]] - [[Somalia]]
# [[SO]] - [[Somalia]]
# [[SR]] - [[Suriname]]
# [[SR]] - [[Suriname]]
# [[SS]] - [[South Sudan]]
# [[ST]] - [[Sao Tome and Principe]]
# [[ST]] - [[Sao Tome and Principe]]
# '''SU''' - ''[[Soviet Union]]'' (a former country now split into many separate ones)
# '''SU''' - ''[[Soviet Union]]'' - a former country now split into many separate ones
# [[SV]] - [[El Salvador]]
# [[SV]] - [[El Salvador]]
# [[SY]] - [[Syria]]
# [[SY]] - [[Syria]]
# [[SZ]] - [[Swaziland]]
# [[SZ]] - [[Swaziland]]
# [[TC]] - [[Turks and Caicos Islands]]
# [[TC]] - [[Turks and Caicos Islands]]
# [[TD]] - [[Chad]] (French:[[Tchad]])
# [[TD]] - [[Chad]] (French: [[Tchad]])
# [[TF]] - [[French Southern Territories]]
# [[TF]] - ''[[French Southern Territories]]'' - unpopulated territory
# [[TG]] - [[Togo]]
# [[TG]] - [[Togo]]
# [[TH]] - [[Thailand]]
# [[TH]] - [[Thailand]]
# [[TJ]] - [[Tajikistan]]
# [[TJ]] - [[Tajikistan]]
# [[TK]] - [[Tokelau]]
# [[TK]] - [[Tokelau]]
# [[TL]] - [[Timor-Leste]]
# [[TM]] - [[Turkmenistan]]
# [[TM]] - [[Turkmenistan]]
# [[TN]] - [[Tunisia]]
# [[TN]] - [[Tunisia]]
# [[TO]] - [[Tonga]]
# [[TO]] - [[Tonga]]
# [[TP]] - [[East Timor]]
# '''TP''' - obsolete code for [[East Timor]], now called [[Timor-Leste]] with code TL
# [[TR]] - [[Turkey]]
# [[TR]] - [[Turkey]]
# [[TT]] - [[Trinidad and Tobago]]
# [[TT]] - [[Trinidad and Tobago]]
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# [[YE]] - [[Yemen]]
# [[YE]] - [[Yemen]]
# [[YT]] - [[Mayotte]]
# [[YT]] - [[Mayotte]]
# '''YU''' - ''[[Yugoslavia]]'' (former country)
# '''YU''' - ''[[Yugoslavia]]'' - former country
# [[ZA]] - [[South Africa]]
# [[ZA]] - [[South Africa]]
# [[ZM]] - [[Zambia]]
# [[ZM]] - [[Zambia]]
# '''ZR''' - ''[[Zaire]]'' (former name of a country)
# '''ZR''' - ''[[Zaire]]'' - former name of a country
# [[ZW]] - [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[ZW]] - [[Zimbabwe]]
== Codeless countries ==
Countries which are not widely recognised (or have not been so until recently) do not have codes. These include the following:
# [[Kosovo]]
# [[Transnistria]]
# [[South Ossetia]]
# [[Abkhazia]]
# [[Nagorno-Karabakh]]
# [[Northern Cyprus]]
# [[Sahrawi]]
# [[Somaliland]]




Latest revision as of 10:29, 10 May 2023

To search for a country, find it below and double-click on the country name if it is in blue. If it is in black then the country is not in the list of Countries which we use. (If a code is in red, this signifies an error.)

A country-like name in italics - like Ascension Island - is not a country, being a former country, part of a country, unpopulated (no permanent resident community) or a statistical convenience.

Alternatively, you can type the country name into the search box - or type in the ISO country code from the list below.

Please ensure that you use Capital letters like AU - 2-letter sequences of the form capital/small (like Au) are reserved for other purposes (chemical symbols, in fact).

Country codes are defined by the international standard ISO 3166. These codes are also the ones used for URLs - top-level domains in the World Wide Web.

A completely up to date list of all codes (including some not for currently existing countries in our sense) can be found at http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements


  1. AC - Ascension Island - part of St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  2. AD - Andorra
  3. AE - United Arab Emirates
  4. AF - Afghanistan
  5. AG - Antigua and Barbuda
  6. AI - Anguilla
  7. AL - Albania
  8. AM - Armenia
  9. AN - Netherlands Antilles - country no longer exists
  10. AO - Angola
  11. AQ - Antarctica - unpopulated territory
  12. AR - Argentina
  13. AS - American Samoa
  14. AT - Austria
  15. AU - Australia
  16. AW - Aruba
  17. AX - Aland Islands
  18. AZ - Azerbaijan
  19. BA - Bosnia and Herzegovina
  20. BB - Barbados
  21. BD - Bangladesh
  22. BE - Belgium
  23. BF - Burkina Faso
  24. BG - Bulgaria
  25. BH - Bahrain
  26. BI - Burundi
  27. BJ - Benin
  28. BL - Saint Barthelemy
  29. BM - Bermuda
  30. BN - Brunei
  31. BO - Bolivia
  32. BR - Brazil
  33. BS - Bahamas
  34. BT - Bhutan
  35. BV - Bouvet Island - unpopulated territory
  36. BW - Botswana
  37. BY - Belarus
  38. BZ - Belize
  39. CA - Canada
  40. CC - Cocos Islands
  41. CD - Congo Democratic Republic
  42. CF - Central African Republic
  43. CG - Congo Republic
  44. CH - Switzerland
  45. CI - Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
  46. CK - Cook Islands
  47. CL - Chile
  48. CM - Cameroon
  49. CN - China
  50. CO - Colombia
  51. CR - Costa Rica
  52. CS - Czechoslovakia - no longer a country: see Czech Republic and Slovakia
  53. CU - Cuba
  54. CV - Cape Verde
  55. CX - Christmas Island
  56. CY - Cyprus
  57. CZ - Czech Republic
  58. DE - Germany (German: Deutschland)
  59. DJ - Djibouti
  60. DK - Denmark
  61. DM - Dominica
  62. DO - Dominican Republic
  63. DZ - Algeria
  64. EC - Ecuador
  65. EE - Estonia
  66. EG - Egypt
  67. EH - Western Sahara (Sahrawi)
  68. ER - Eritrea
  69. ES - Spain (Spanish: España)
  70. ET - Ethiopia
  71. FI - Finland
  72. FJ - Fiji
  73. FK - Falkland Islands
  74. FM - Micronesia States
  75. FO - Faroe Islands
  76. FR - France
  77. FX - France (Metropolitan) - this code is not actually used
  78. GA - Gabon
  79. GB - United Kingdom (Great Britain) - this code is not used (except on car number plates)
  80. GD - Grenada
  81. GE - Georgia
  82. GF - French Guiana
  83. GG - Guernsey
  84. GH - Ghana
  85. GI - Gibraltar
  86. GL - Greenland
  87. GM - Gambia
  88. GN - Guinea
  89. GP - Guadeloupe
  90. GQ - Equatorial Guinea
  91. GR - Greece
  92. GS - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  93. GT - Guatemala
  94. GU - Guam
  95. GW - Guinea-Bissau
  96. GY - Guyana
  97. HK - Hong Kong
  98. HM - Heard and McDonald Islands - unpopulated
  99. HN - Honduras
  100. HR - Croatia (its truename is Hrvatska)
  101. HT - Haiti
  102. HU - Hungary
  103. ID - Indonesia
  104. IE - Ireland
  105. IL - Israel
  106. IM - Isle of Man
  107. IN - India
  108. IO - British Indian Ocean Territory - unpopulated
  109. IQ - Iraq
  110. IR - Iran
  111. IS - Iceland
  112. IT - Italy
  113. JE - Jersey
  114. JM - Jamaica
  115. JO - Jordan
  116. JP - Japan
  117. KE - Kenya
  118. KG - Kyrgyzstan
  119. KH - Cambodia (country of the Khmers)
  120. KI - Kiribati
  121. KM - Comoros
  122. KN - Saint Kitts and Nevis
  123. KP - North Korea (People's Republic)
  124. KR - South Korea
  125. KW - Kuwait
  126. KY - Cayman Islands
  127. KZ - Kazakhstan
  128. LA - Laos
  129. LB - Lebanon
  130. LC - Saint Lucia
  131. LI - Liechtenstein
  132. LK - Sri Lanka
  133. LR - Liberia
  134. LS - Lesotho
  135. LT - Lithuania
  136. LU - Luxembourg
  137. LV - Latvia
  138. LY - Libya
  139. MA - Morocco
  140. MC - Monaco
  141. MD - Moldova
  142. ME - Montenegro
  143. MG - Madagascar
  144. MH - Marshall Islands
  145. MK - Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic, not the region of Greece)
  146. ML - Mali
  147. MM - Myanmar
  148. MN - Mongolia
  149. MO - Macau
  150. MP - Northern Mariana Islands
  151. MQ - Martinique
  152. MR - Mauritania
  153. MS - Montserrat
  154. MT - Malta
  155. MU - Mauritius
  156. MV - Maldives
  157. MW - Malawi
  158. MX - Mexico
  159. MY - Malaysia
  160. MZ - Mozambique
  161. NA - Namibia
  162. NC - New Caledonia
  163. NE - Niger
  164. NF - Norfolk Island
  165. NG - Nigeria
  166. NI - Nicaragua
  167. NL - Netherlands
  168. NO - Norway
  169. NP - Nepal
  170. NR - Nauru
  171. NT - Neutral Zone - this no longer exists
  172. NU - Niue
  173. NZ - New Zealand
  174. OM - Oman
  175. PA - Panama
  176. PE - Peru
  177. PF - French Polynesia
  178. PG - Papua New Guinea
  179. PH - Philippines
  180. PK - Pakistan
  181. PL - Poland
  182. PM - Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  183. PN - Pitcairn
  184. PR - Puerto Rico
  185. PS - Palestine
  186. PT - Portugal
  187. PW - Palau
  188. PY - Paraguay
  189. QA - Qatar
  190. RE - Reunion
  191. RO - Romania
  192. RS - Serbia
  193. RU - Russia
  194. RW - Rwanda
  195. SA - Saudi Arabia
  196. SB - Solomon Islands
  197. SC - Seychelles
  198. SD - Sudan
  199. SE - Sweden
  200. SG - Singapore
  201. SH - St Helena - the main part of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  202. SI - Slovenia
  203. SJ - Svalbard and Jan Mayen - a group of two territories - see in particular Svalbard
  204. SK - Slovakia
  205. SL - Sierra Leone
  206. SM - San Marino
  207. SN - Senegal
  208. SO - Somalia
  209. SR - Suriname
  210. SS - South Sudan
  211. ST - Sao Tome and Principe
  212. SU - Soviet Union - a former country now split into many separate ones
  213. SV - El Salvador
  214. SY - Syria
  215. SZ - Swaziland
  216. TC - Turks and Caicos Islands
  217. TD - Chad (French: Tchad)
  218. TF - French Southern Territories - unpopulated territory
  219. TG - Togo
  220. TH - Thailand
  221. TJ - Tajikistan
  222. TK - Tokelau
  223. TL - Timor-Leste
  224. TM - Turkmenistan
  225. TN - Tunisia
  226. TO - Tonga
  227. TP - obsolete code for East Timor, now called Timor-Leste with code TL
  228. TR - Turkey
  229. TT - Trinidad and Tobago
  230. TV - Tuvalu
  231. TW - Taiwan
  232. TZ - Tanzania
  233. UA - Ukraine
  234. UG - Uganda
  235. UK - United Kingdom
  236. UM - US Minor Outlying Islands - a statistical convenience, not a country
  237. US - United States
  238. UY - Uruguay
  239. UZ - Uzbekistan
  240. VA - Vatican City (regarded as identical with Holy See)
  241. VC - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  242. VE - Venezuela
  243. VG - British Virgin Islands
  244. VI - United States Virgin Islands
  245. VN - Vietnam
  246. VU - Vanuatu
  247. WF - Wallis and Futuna Islands
  248. WS - Samoa
  249. YE - Yemen
  250. YT - Mayotte
  251. YU - Yugoslavia - former country
  252. ZA - South Africa
  253. ZM - Zambia
  254. ZR - Zaire - former name of a country
  255. ZW - Zimbabwe


Codeless countries

Countries which are not widely recognised (or have not been so until recently) do not have codes. These include the following:

  1. Kosovo
  2. Transnistria
  3. South Ossetia
  4. Abkhazia
  5. Nagorno-Karabakh
  6. Northern Cyprus
  7. Sahrawi
  8. Somaliland


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