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The FIPS standard includes both the codes for independent countries (similar but often incompatible with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard) and the codes for top-level subdivision of the countries (similar to but usually incompatible with the ISO 3166-2 standard). The ISO 3166 codes are used by the United Nations and for Internet top-level ...
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.
Used for the Refugee Olympic Team, for athletes who have been displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016. [10] EUA United Team of Germany from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne: 1956–1964
G GCA United Kingdom (Non-metropolitan) – Region 1 GCC United Kingdom – Region 3 GIB Gibraltar: GRL Greenland: GUF Guiana (French Department of) GUM Guam: H HKG Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) HMD Heard and McDonald Islands: HWA Hawaii (State of) HWL Howland Island: I ICO Cocos (Keeling) Islands: J JAR Jarvis Island
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.
Previously also unofficially used in Galicia, Spain, but .gal has now been approved for such use and was implemented in mid-2014. No: Yes: Yes: 8 April 1994.gm The Gambia: Gambia: Domain name should match the domain owner's name or trademarks. Common nouns are blocked. No: No: Yes: 28 March 1997.gn Guinea: Guinea: A local contact is required ...
ISO 3166-1:2013 Archived 2014-03-04 at the Wayback Machine: 2013-11-19: Third edition of ISO 3166-1 (changes are published in the online catalogue Archived 2022-10-21 at the Wayback Machine of ISO only and no newsletters are published anymore) ISO 3166-1:2020 Archived 2020-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: 2020-08: Fourth edition of ISO 3166-1
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 languages that are predominant or official, or ...