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South Africa: the Republic of South Africa: UN member ZA: ZAF: 710: ISO 3166-2:ZA.za South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: United Kingdom: GS: SGS: 239: ISO 3166-2:GS.gs South Korea – See Korea, The Republic of. South Sudan: the Republic of South Sudan: UN member SS: SSD: 728: ISO 3166-2 ...
FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph [1]) to each of its member and non-member countries.These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
3 Former countries, former country names and former country codes. 4 Notes. 5 See also. ... South Africa: RSA: RSA: ZAF: 3OFï South Georgia and the South Sandwich ...
IOA was used again in the 2012 Games, when it stood for Independent Olympic Athletes, [12] comprising athletes from the former Netherlands Antilles and a runner from South Sudan. The Netherlands Antilles Olympic Committee 's membership from the IOC was withdrawn the previous year, and South Sudan had not yet formed an NOC at the time.
The list of names in Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division is based on the bulletin Country Names and other UN sources. Once a country name or territory name appears in either of these two sources, it will be added to ISO 3166-1 by default. The ISO 3166/MA may reserve code elements for other entities that do ...
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold : internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN)
South America ranks fourth among all continents in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America). [1] The border between North and South America is at some point in the Isthmus of Panama.
Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any ...