Comparison of IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes

This table compares IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes.

Flag	Country	IOC	FIFA	ISO
23x15px	Afghanistan	AFG	AFG	AFG
23x15px	Åland Islands			ALA
23x15px	Albania	ALB	ALB	ALB
23x15px	Algeria	ALG	ALG	DZA
23x15px	American Samoa^[1]	ASA	ASA	ASM
23x15px	Andorra	AND	AND	AND
23x15px	Angola	ANG	ANG	AGO
23x15px	Anguilla		AIA	AIA
	Antarctica			ATA
23x15px	Antigua and Barbuda	ANT	ATG	ATG
	Argentina	ARG	ARG	ARG
	Armenia	ARM	ARM	ARM
File:Flag of Aruba.svg	Aruba	ARU	ARU	ABW
	Australia	AUS	AUS	AUS
	Austria	AUT	AUT	AUT
	Azerbaijan	AZE	AZE	AZE
	The Bahamas	BAH	BAH	BHS
File:Flag of Bahrain.svg	Bahrain	BRN	BHR	BHR
23x15px	Bangladesh	BAN	BAN	BGD
23x15px	Barbados	BAR	BRB	BRB
File:Flag of Belarus.svg	Belarus	BLR	BLR	BLR
23x15px	Belgium	BEL	BEL	BEL
23x15px	Belize	BIZ	BLZ	BLZ
23x15px	Benin	BEN	BEN	BEN
23x15px	Bermuda	BER	BER	BMU
	Bhutan	BHU	BHU	BTN
	Bolivia	BOL	BOL	BOL
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	Caribbean Netherlands	AHO		BES
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	BIH	BIH
	Botswana	BOT	BOT	BWA
	Bouvet Island			BVT
File:Flag of Brazil.svg	Brazil	BRA	BRA	BRA
	British Indian Ocean Territory			IOT
	British Virgin Islands^[2]	IVB	VGB	VGB
	Brunei	BRU	BRU	BRN
	Bulgaria	BUL	BUL	BGR
File:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg	Burkina Faso	BUR	BFA	BFA
	Burundi	BDI	BDI	BDI
23x15px	Cambodia	CAM	CAM	KHM
	Cameroon	CMR	CMR	CMR
	Canada	CAN	CAN	CAN
	Cape Verde	CPV	CPV	CPV
File:Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg	Cayman Islands	CAY	CAY	CYM
File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg	Central African Republic	CAF	CTA	CAF
23x15px	Chad	CHA	CHA	TCD
23x15px	Chile	CHI	CHI	CHL
23x15px	China, People's Republic of^[3]	CHN	CHN	CHN
23x15px	Christmas Island			CXR
23x15px	Cocos (Keeling) Islands			CCK
23x15px	Colombia	COL	COL	COL
23x15px	Comoros	COM	COM	COM
File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg	Congo, Democratic Republic of the^[4]	COD	COD	COD
File:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg	Congo, Republic of^[5]	CGO	CGO	COG
23x15px	Cook Islands	COK	COK	COK
23x15px	Costa Rica	CRC	CRC	CRI
23x15px	Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	CIV	CIV
23x15px	Croatia	CRO	CRO	HRV
23x15px	Cuba	CUB	CUB	CUB
23x15px	Curaçao			CUW
23x15px	Cyprus	CYP	CYP	CYP
23x15px	Czech Republic	CZE	CZE	CZE
23x15px	Denmark	DEN	DEN	DNK
23x15px	Djibouti	DJI	DJI	DJI
	Dominica^[6]	DMA	DMA	DMA
	Dominican Republic	DOM	DOM	DOM
23x15px	Ecuador	ECU	ECU	ECU
23x15px	Egypt	EGY	EGY	EGY
File:Flag of El Salvador.svg	El Salvador	ESA	SLV	SLV
23x15px	England		ENG	^[7]
23x15px	Equatorial Guinea	GEQ	EQG	GNQ
	Eritrea	ERI	ERI	ERI
File:Flag of Estonia.svg	Estonia	EST	EST	EST
	Ethiopia	ETH	ETH	ETH
	Falkland Islands			FLK
23x15px	Faroe Islands		FRO	FRO
	Fiji	FIJ	FIJ	FJI
23x15px	Finland	FIN	FIN	FIN
	France	FRA	FRA	FRA
	French Guiana			GUF
	French Polynesia^[8]		TAH	PYF
23x15px	French Southern and Antarctic Lands			ATF
23x15px	Gabon	GAB	GAB	GAB
23x15px	The Gambia	GAM	GAM	GMB
23x15px	Georgia	GEO	GEO	GEO
23x15px	Germany	GER	GER	DEU
23x15px	Ghana	GHA	GHA	GHA
23x15px	Gibraltar		GIB	GIB
23x15px	Greece	GRE	GRE	GRC
23x15px	Greenland			HAL
	Grenada	GRN	GRN	GRD
File:Flag of France.svg	Guadeloupe			GLP
23x15px	Guam	GUM	GUM	GUM
23x15px	Guatemala	GUA	GUA	GTM
23x15px	Guernsey			GGY
23x15px	Guinea	GUI	GUI	GIN
23x15px	Guinea-Bissau	GBS	GNB	GNB
	Guyana	GUY	GUY	GUY
	Haiti	HAI	HAI	HTI
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg	Heard Island and McDonald Islands			HMD
	Honduras	HON	HON	HND
23x15px	Hong Kong^[9]	HKG	HKG	HKG
File:Flag of Hungary.svg	Hungary	HUN	HUN	HUN
23x15px	Iceland	ISL	ISL	ISL
23x15px	India	IND	IND	IND
23x15px	Indonesia	INA	IDN	IDN
23x15px	Iran	IRI	IRN	IRN
23x15px	Iraq	IRQ	IRQ	IRQ
23x15px	Ireland^[10]	IRL	IRL	IRL
23x15px	Isle of Man			IMN
23x15px	Israel	ISR	ISR	ISR
23x15px	Italy	ITA	ITA	ITA
23x15px	Jamaica	JAM	JAM	JAM
23x15px	Japan	JPN	JPN	JPN
23x15px	Jersey			JEY
23x15px	Jordan	JOR	JOR	JOR
23x15px	Kazakhstan	KAZ	KAZ	KAZ
23x15px	Kenya	KEN	KEN	KEN
23x15px	Kiribati	KIR		KIR
23x15px	Korea, Democratic People's Rep. (North)^[11]	PRK	PRK	PRK
23x15px	Korea, Republic of (South)^[12]	KOR	KOR	KOR
23x15px	Kuwait	KUW	KUW	KWT
23x15px	Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	KGZ	KGZ
23x15px	Laos	LAO	LAO	LAO
23x15px	Latvia	LAT	LVA	LVA
	Lebanon	LBN	LBN	LBN
	Lesotho	LES	LES	LSO
23x15px	Liberia	LBR	LBR	LBR
23x15px	Libya	LBA	LBY	LBY
23x15px	Liechtenstein	LIE	LIE	LIE
23x15px	Lithuania	LTU	LTU	LTU
23x15px	Luxembourg	LUX	LUX	LUX
23x15px	Macau		MAC	MAC
23x15px	North Macedonia^[13]	MKD	MKD	MKD
23x15px	Madagascar	MAD	MAD	MDG
23x15px	Malawi	MAW	MWI	MWI
23x15px	Malaysia	MAS	MAS	MYS
23x15px	Maldives	MDV	MDV	MDV
23x15px	Mali	MLI	MLI	MLI
23x15px	Malta	MLT	MLT	MLT
23x15px	Marshall Islands	MHL		MHL
File:Flag of France.svg	Martinique			MTQ
23x15px	Mauritania	MTN	MTN	MRT
	Mauritius	MRI	MRI	MUS
23x15px	Mayotte			MYT
23x15px	Mexico	MEX	MEX	MEX
23x15px	Micronesia, Federated States of	FSM		FSM
23x15px	Moldova	MDA	MDA	MDA
23x15px	Monaco	MON		MCO
23x15px	Mongolia	MGL	MNG	MNG
23x15px	Montenegro	MNE	MNE	MNE
23x15px	Montserrat		MSR	MSR
23x15px	Morocco	MAR	MAR	MAR
23x15px	Mozambique	MOZ	MOZ	MOZ
	Myanmar	MYA	MYA	MMR
23x15px	Namibia	NAM	NAM	NAM
23x15px	Nauru	NRU		NRU
File:Flag of Nepal.svg	Nepal	NEP	NEP	NPL
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	Netherlands	NED	NED	NLD
23x15px	New Caledonia		NCL	NCL
23x15px	New Zealand	NZL	NZL	NZL
23x15px	Nicaragua	NCA	NCA	NIC
23x15px	Niger	NIG	NIG	NER
File:Flag of Nigeria.svg	Nigeria	NGR	NGA	NGA
23x15px	Niue			NIU
23x15px	Norfolk Island			NFK
23x15px	Northern Ireland		NIR	^[14]
23x15px	Northern Mariana Islands			MNP
File:Flag of Norway.svg	Norway	NOR	NOR	NOR
23x15px	Oman	OMA	OMA	OMN
23x15px	Pakistan	PAK	PAK	PAK
23x15px	Palau	PLW		PLW
23x15px	Palestinian Authority	PLE	PLE	PSE
23x15px	Panama	PAN	PAN	PAN
23x15px	Papua New Guinea	PNG	PNG	PNG
23x15px	Paraguay	PAR	PAR	PRY
23x15px	Peru	PER	PER	PER
23x15px	Philippines	PHI	PHI	PHL
23x15px	Pitcairn Islands			PCN
23x15px	Poland	POL	POL	POL
23x15px	Portugal	POR	POR	PRT
23x15px	Puerto Rico	PUR	PUR	PRI
23x15px	Qatar	QAT	QAT	QAT
File:Flag of France.svg	Réunion			REU
File:Flag of Romania.svg	Romania	ROU	ROU	ROU
23x15px	Russia	RUS	RUS	RUS
23x15px	Rwanda	RWA	RWA	RWA
File:Flag of France.svg	Saint Barthélemy			BLM
File:Flag of Saint Helena.svg	Saint Helena			SHN
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	SKN	SKN	KNA
File:Flag of Saint Lucia.svg	Saint Lucia	LCA	LCA	LCA
File:Flag of France.svg	Saint Martin (French part)			MAF
23x15px	Saint Pierre and Miquelon			SPM
23x15px	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	VIN	VIN	VCT
23x15px	Samoa^[1]	SAM	SAM	WSM
23x15px	San Marino	SMR	SMR	SMR
23x15px	São Tomé and Príncipe	STP	STP	STP
23x15px	Saudi Arabia	KSA	KSA	SAU
File:Flag of Scotland.svg	Scotland		SCO	^[15]
23x15px	Senegal	SEN	SEN	SEN
23x15px	Serbia	SRB	SRB	SRB
23x15px	Seychelles	SEY	SEY	SYC
23x15px	Sierra Leone	SLE	SLE	SLE
23x15px	Singapore	SGP	SGP	SGP
23x15px	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)			SXM
23x15px	Slovakia	SVK	SVK	SVK
23x15px	Slovenia	SLO	SVN	SVN
23x15px	Solomon Islands	SOL	SOL	SLB
23x15px	Somalia	SOM	SOM	SOM
23x15px	South Africa	RSA	RSA	ZAF
23x15px	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands			SGS
23x15px	Spain	ESP	ESP	ESP
23x15px	Sri Lanka	SRI	SRI	LKA
23x15px	Sudan	SUD	SDN	SDN
23x15px	Suriname	SUR	SUR	SUR
File:Flag of Norway.svg	Svalbard and Jan Mayen			SJM
23x15px	Eswatini	SWZ	SWZ	SWZ
23x15px	Sweden	SWE	SWE	SWE
23x15px	Switzerland	SUI	SUI	CHE
23x15px	Syria	SYR	SYR	SYR
File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg	Republic of China (Taiwan)^[16]	TPE	TPE	TWN
	Tajikistan	TJK	TJK	TJK
	Tanzania	TAN	TAN	TZA
	Thailand	THA	THA	THA
23x15px	Timor-Leste^[17]	TLS	TLS	TLS
23x15px	Togo	TOG	TOG	TGO
23x15px	Tokelau			TKL
File:Flag of Tonga.svg	Tonga	TGA	TGA	TON
	Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	TRI	TTO
	Tunisia	TUN	TUN	TUN
	Turkey	TUR	TUR	TUR
23x15px	Turkmenistan	TKM	TKM	TKM
	Turks and Caicos Islands		TCA	TCA
	Tuvalu	TUV		TUV
	Uganda	UGA	UGA	UGA
	Ukraine	UKR	UKR	UKR
23x15px	United Arab Emirates	UAE	UAE	ARE
23x15px	United Kingdom^[18]	GBR		GBR
23x15px	United States	USA	USA	USA
23x15px	United States Minor Outlying Islands			UMI
23x15px	United States Virgin Islands^[19]	ISV	VIR	VIR
23x15px	Uruguay	URU	URU	URY
23x15px	Uzbekistan	UZB	UZB	UZB
23x15px	Vanuatu	VAN	VAN	VUT
23x15px	Vatican City State			VAT
23x15px	Venezuela	VEN	VEN	VEN
23x15px	Vietnam	VIE	VIE	VNM
23x15px	Wales		WAL	^[20]
File:Flag of France.svg	Wallis and Futuna			WLF
	Western Sahara			ESH
	Yemen	YEM	YEM	YEM
File:Flag of Zambia.svg	Zambia	ZAM	ZAM	ZMB
	Zimbabwe	ZIM	ZIM	ZWE

Former countries and former country names

Codes are shown with their last year of use.

Flag	Country	IOC	FIFA	ISO
	British Honduras	HBR 1972	BHO
File:Flag of Myanmar (1974–2010).svg	Burma	BIR 1988	BUR 1989	BUR 1989
23x15px	Ceylon	CEY 1972	CEY 1972
23x15px	Dahomey	DAH 1972	DAH 1975	DHY 1977
23x15px	Czechoslovakia	TCH 1992	TCH 1993	CSK 1993
23x15px	East Germany	GDR 1988	DDR 1989	DDR 1989
File:Flag of the Khmer Republic.svg	Khmer Republic	KHM 1976	? 1975
File:Flag of Malaya (1950–1963).svg	Malaya	MAL 1960	? 1963
23x15px	Netherlands Antilles	AHO active^[21]	ANT active^[22]	ANT 2010
23x15px	North Borneo	NBO 1956	NBO 1963
File:Flag of the Yemen Arab Republic.svg	North Yemen	YAR 1988	NYE 1990	YEM 1990
23x15px	Northern Rhodesia	NRH 1964	NRH 1964
23x15px	Rhodesia	RHO 1972	RHO 1980	RHO 1980
	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG 2006	SCG 2006	SCG 2006
	South Yemen	YMD 1988	SYE 1990	YMD 1990
	Soviet Union	URS 1988	URS 1991	SUN 1992
File:Flag of Upper Volta.svg	Upper Volta	VOL 1984	UPV 1984	HVO 1984
23x15px	Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of		VNO 1975	VDR 1977
23x15px	Viet Nam, Republic of	VNM 1976	VSO 1975	VNM 1977
23x15px	West Germany	FRG 1988	FRG 1989	DEU 1989
23x15px	Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of	YUG 2002	YUG 2003	YUG 2003
23x15px	Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of	YUG 1992	YUG 1992	YUG 1992
23x15px	Zaire	ZAI 1996	ZAI 1997	ZAR 1997

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 The name "Samoa" as political sense contains only the Independent States of Samoa and excludes American Samoa.
↑ In Olympic Games, Virgin Islands means the United States Virgin Islands not British Virgin Islands.
↑ Mainland China (People's Republic of China except Hong Kong and Macau) is designated as the "People's Republic of China", ("China" for short) in Olympic Games, and as "China PR", ("China" for short) in soccer matches.
↑ The Democratic Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as the "DR Congo" in Olympic Games, and as "Congo DR" in soccer matches.
↑ The Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "Congo" in Olympic Games and soccer matches.
↑ The Commonwealth of Dominica (Dominica) is abbreviated as "Dominica" in Olympic Games and soccer matches.
↑ "GB-ENG" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.
↑ Competes as "Tahiti" in soccer
↑ Hong Kong is designated as "Hong Kong, China" by IOC and in soccer matches.
↑ It coveres only the Republic of Ireland in the Olympic Games and soccer matches. In FIFA, the name "Republic of Ireland" is used in order to distinguish from Ireland as a former home nation of the United Kingdom.
↑ North Korea is designated as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", abbreviated to "DPRK", in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea DPR" in soccer matches.
↑ South Korea is designated as "Korea" in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea Republic" in soccer matches.
↑ The North Macedonia is designated as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in Olympic Games and soccer matches. See also Macedonia naming dispute.
↑ "GB-NIR" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.
↑ "GB-SCT" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.
↑ TW and TWN is defined as "Taiwan, Province of China" in the ISO 3166 codes list. The Republic of China is designated as " Chinese Taipei" in Olympic Games and soccer matches. See also Chinese Taipei and the Political status of Taiwan.
↑ Timor-Leste is generally known as "East Timor". West Timor is a part of Indonesia.
↑ The United Kingdom's short names generally used in the Olympic Games are "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" or just "Great Britain" not the "United Kingdom".^[source?]
↑ United States Virgin Islands is designated as just Virgin Islands in Olympic Games.
↑ "GB-WLS" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.
↑ The Netherlands Antilles dissolved on 10 October 2010. Although its ISO 3166 code has been deleted, the National Olympic Committee has yet to dissolve.
↑ The Netherlands Antilles dissolved on 10 October 2010. Although its ISO 3166 code has been deleted, the national football confederation has yet to dissolve.

Other websites

Official abbreviations" at The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964

[Samoa-1] 1.0 ^1.1 The name "Samoa" as political sense contains only the Independent States of Samoa and excludes American Samoa.

[2] In Olympic Games, Virgin Islands means the United States Virgin Islands not British Virgin Islands.

[3] Mainland China (People's Republic of China except Hong Kong and Macau) is designated as the "People's Republic of China", ("China" for short) in Olympic Games, and as "China PR", ("China" for short) in soccer matches.

[4] The Democratic Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as the "DR Congo" in Olympic Games, and as "Congo DR" in soccer matches.

[5] The Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "Congo" in Olympic Games and soccer matches.

[6] The Commonwealth of Dominica (Dominica) is abbreviated as "Dominica" in Olympic Games and soccer matches.

[7] "GB-ENG" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.

[8] Competes as "Tahiti" in soccer

[9] Hong Kong is designated as "Hong Kong, China" by IOC and in soccer matches.

[10] It coveres only the Republic of Ireland in the Olympic Games and soccer matches. In FIFA, the name "Republic of Ireland" is used in order to distinguish from Ireland as a former home nation of the United Kingdom.

[11] North Korea is designated as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", abbreviated to "DPRK", in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea DPR" in soccer matches.

[12] South Korea is designated as "Korea" in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea Republic" in soccer matches.

[13] The North Macedonia is designated as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in Olympic Games and soccer matches. See also Macedonia naming dispute.

[14] "GB-NIR" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.

[15] "GB-SCT" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.

[16] TW and TWN is defined as "Taiwan, Province of China" in the ISO 3166 codes list. The Republic of China is designated as " Chinese Taipei" in Olympic Games and soccer matches. See also Chinese Taipei and the Political status of Taiwan.

[17] Timor-Leste is generally known as "East Timor". West Timor is a part of Indonesia.

[18] The United Kingdom's short names generally used in the Olympic Games are "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" or just "Great Britain" not the "United Kingdom".^[source?]

[19] United States Virgin Islands is designated as just Virgin Islands in Olympic Games.

[20] "GB-WLS" is its ISO 3166-2 code. See also ISO 3166-2:GB.

[21] The Netherlands Antilles dissolved on 10 October 2010. Although its ISO 3166 code has been deleted, the National Olympic Committee has yet to dissolve.

[22] The Netherlands Antilles dissolved on 10 October 2010. Although its ISO 3166 code has been deleted, the national football confederation has yet to dissolve.

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