ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent areas. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard. They are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports.

Current codes

Code	Country
ABW
AFG
AGO
AIA
ALA
ALB
AND
ANT
ARE
ARG
ARM
ASM
ATA
ATF
ATG
AUS
AUT
AZE
BDI
BEL
BEN
BFA
BGD
BGR
BHR
BHS
BIH
BLR
BLZ
BMU
BOL
BRA
BRB
BRN
BTN
BVT
BWA
CAF
CAN
CCK
CHE
CHL
CHN
CIV
CMR
COD
COG
COK
COL
COM
CPV
CRI
CUB
CXR
CYM
CYP
CZE
DEU
DJI
DMA
DNK
DOM
DZA
ECU
EGY
ERI
ESH
ESP
EST
ETH
FIN
FJI
FLK
FRA
FRO
FSM
GAB
GBR
GEO
GGY
GHA
GIB
GIN
GLP
GMB
GNB
GNQ
GRC
GRD
GRL
GTM
GUF
GUM
GUY
HKG
HMD
HND
HRV
HTI
HUN
IDN
IMN
IND
IOT
IRL
IRN
IRQ
ISL
ISR
ITA
JAM
JEY
JPN
JOR
KAZ
KEN
KGZ
KHM
KIR
KNA
KOR
KWT
LAO
LBN
LBR
LBY
LCA
LIE
LKA
LSO
LTU
LUX
LVA
MAC
MAR
MCO
MDA
MDG
MDV
MEX
MHL
MKD
MLI
MLT
MMR
MNG
MNP
MOZ
MRT
MSR
MTQ
MUS
MWI
MYS
MYT
NAM
NCL
NER
NFK
NGA
NIC
NIU
NLD
NOR
NPL
NRU
NZL
OMN
PAK
PAN
PCN
PER
PHL
PLW
PNG
POL
PRI
PRK
PRT
PRY
PSE
PYF
QAT
REU
ROU
RUS
RWA
SAU
SCG
SDN
SEN
SGP
SGS
SHN
SJM
SLB
SLE
SLV
SMR
SOM
SPM
STP
SUR
SVK
SVN
SWE
SWZ
SYC
SYR
TCA
TCD
TGO
THA
TJK
TKL
TKM
TLS
TON
TTO
TUN
TUR
TUV
TWN
TZA
UGA
UKR
UMI
URY
USA
UZB
VAT
VCT
VEN
VGB
VIR
VNM
VUT
WLF
WSM
YEM
ZAF
ZMB
ZWE

¹Serbia and Montenegro no longer exists as a country. The ISO has yet to release the official codes for the successor states Montenegro and Serbia.

Reserved code elements

User-assigned codes

The following alpha-3 codes are user-assigned:
* AAA
* QMA-QZZ
* XAA-XZZ
* ZZZ

Transitional reservations

The following alpha-3 codes are subject to a transitional reservation:

Code	Country	Year of change	New country/countries
BUR		1989	Myanmar
BYS	Byelorussian SSR	1991	Belarus
CSK		1993	Split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia
NTZ	Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone	1983	Partitioned
ZAR	Zaire	1997	Became the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Indeterminate reservations

The following three letter codes are subject to an indeterminate reservation, having been notified to the United Nations Secretary-General under the 1949 and/or 1968 Road Transport Conventions:

Code	Country
ADN	, became the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1967-1970
BDS	Barbados
BRU
CDN	Canada
EAK	Kenya
EAT	Tanganyika, absorbed into Tanzania in 1964
EAU	Uganda
EAZ	Zanzibar, absorbed into Tanzania in 1964
GBA	Alderney
GBG	Guernsey
GBJ	Jersey (Great Britain Jersey)
GBM	Isle of Man (Great Britain Man)
GBZ	Gibraltar
GCA	Guatemala
HKJ	Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)
MAL	Malaysia
RCA	Central African Republic
RCB	People's Republic of Congo, became the Republic of the Congo in 1991 (République Congo Brazzaville)
RCH	Chile
RMM	Mali
RNR	Zambia (Republic Northern Rhodesia)
ROK	(Republic Of Korea)
ROU	Uruguay — ROU now used by Romania
RSR	Southern Rhodesia, became Zimbabwe in 1980
RSM	San Marino
SLO
SME	Suriname
TMN	Turkmenistan
WAG	Gambia
WAL	Sierra Leone
ZRE	Zaire, became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997

Exceptional reservations

The following alpha-3 code elements are subject to an exceptional reservation:

Code	Country	Reserved for
ASC	Ascension Island	UPU, also used by ITU
CPT	Clipperton Island	ITU
DGA	Diego Garcia	ITU
FXX	Metropolitan France	On behalf of France
TAA	Tristan da Cunha	UPU

The following three codes were also under exceptional reservation, until the update from 2006-03-29 included them in the standard:

Code	Country	Reserved for
GGY		UPU
IMN		UPU
JEY		UPU

Codes currently agreed not to use

For the time being, ISO 3166 MA has agreed not to use the following codes, taken from ISO/IEC 7501-1 (Machine readable travel documents), as alpha-3 country codes:

Code	Meaning
GBD	British Dependent Territories Citizen
GBN	British National (Overseas)
GBO	British Overseas Citizen
GBP	British Protected Person
GBS	British Subject
UNO	United Nations Official
UNA	United Nations Specialized Agency Official
UNK	Kosovo resident, issued travel document by UNMIK

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: Encyclopedia BETA

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