Country code

For the ISO standards which specify short codes for language names, see ISO 639. For international phone dialing codes, see List of country calling codes. For the rules of behavior in the British countryside, see The Country Code.
Map of Oceania with country codes.

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1. The term country code frequently refers to international dialing codes, the E.164 country calling codes.

ISO 3166-1

Main article: ISO 3166-1

This standard defines for most of the countries and dependent areas in the world:

The two-letter codes are used as the basis for some other codes or applications, for example,

For more applications see ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Other country codes

The developers of ISO 3166 intended that in time it would replace other coding systems in existence.

Other codings

The following can represent countries:

Lists of country codes by country

A - B - C - D–E - F - G - H–I - J–K - L - M - N - O–Q - R - S - T - U–Z

See also

References

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  1. Federal Register, September 2, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 170), page 51276

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