ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 as part of the ISO 3166 standard provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. It was first published in 1974 by the International Organization for Standardization and defines three different codes for each area:

Related Topics:
ISO - ISO 3166 - Standard - 1974 - International Organization for Standardization

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• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a two-letter system with many applications, most notably the Internet top-level domains for countries.
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, a three-letter system.
• ISO 3166-1 numeric, a three-digit numerical system, is identical to that defined by the United Nations Statistical Division.

A country or territory generally gets new alpha codes if its name changes, whereas a new numeric code is associated with a change of boundaries. Some codes in each series are reserved, for various reasons.

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ISO 3166-1 is not the only standard for country codes.

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The following is intended to be a complete ISO 3166-1 code list in alphabetical order by country name (encoding list). The table includes formal codes only. For reserved codes, see ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 Reserved Code Elements list and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3. ISO 3166-1 does not have numeric reserved codes.

Related Topics:
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 Reserved Code Elements list - ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

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