Country code 5375 212844516 2008-05-16T15:02:30Z Dwheeler 3297 /* Other country codes */ {{two other uses||the rules of behaviour in the British countryside|The Country Code|international phone dialing codes|List of country calling codes}} '''Country codes''' are short alphabetic or numeric [[geography|geographical]] [[code]]s ([[geocode]]s) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is [[ISO 3166-1]]. The term ''country code'' frequently refers to international dialing codes, the [[E.164]] [[list of country calling codes|country calling codes]]. {{TOCright}} ==ISO 3166-1== {{main|ISO 3166-1}} This standard defines for most of the countries and dependent areas in the world: *a two letter ([[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]]) *a three-letter ([[ISO 3166-1 alpha-3]]), and *a three-digit numeric ([[ISO 3166-1 numeric]]) code. The two-letter codes are used as the basis for some other codes or applications, e.g. *for [[ISO 4217]] [[currency]] codes and *with deviations, for country code [[top-level domain]] names (ccTLDs) on the Internet: [[list of Internet TLDs]]. For more applications see [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]]. ==Other country codes== *The [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) three letter codes used in sporting events: [[list of IOC country codes]] *The Fédération Internationale de Football Association ([[FIFA]]) assigns a three-letter code (dubbed FIFA Trigramme) to each of its member and non-member countries: [[List of FIFA country codes]] *The [[North Atlantic Treaty Organisation]] (NATO) used two-letter codes of its own: [[list of NATO country codes]]. They were largely borrowed from the FIPS 10-4 codes mentioned below. In [[2003]], the eighth edition of the Standardisation Agreement (STANAG) adopted the ISO 3166 three-letter codes with one exception (the code for Macedonia). With the ninth edition, NATO is transitioning to four- and six-letter codes based on ISO 3166 with a few exceptions and additions. *The coding system for car [[license plate]]s under the 1949 and 1968 United Nations Road Traffic Conventions (distinguishing signs of vehicles in international traffic): [[List of international license plate codes]] [http://www.unece.org/trans/conventn/Distsigns_Sept2003.pdf] *The [[World Meteorological Organization]] (WMO) has its own list of country codes, used in reporting meteorological observations. *The [[United Nations Development Program]] (UNDP) also has its own list of [[List of UNDP country codes|trigram country codes]]. *The [[Federal Information Processing Standard]] (FIPS) [[FIPS 10-4|10-4]] defines two letter codes used by the [[United States|US]] government and in the [[CIA World Factbook]]: [[list of FIPS country codes]], See also [[List of FIPS region codes]] for a set of 4-character region codes, also assigned by FIPS 10-4. *The coding system for [[diplomatic license plates in the United States]], assigned by the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]]. *From the [[International Telecommunication Union]] (ITU): **the [[E.164]] international telephone dialling codes: [[list of country calling codes]] with 1-3 digits, **the [[IMSI|E.212]] [[mobile country codes]] (MCC), for mobile/wireless phone addresses, **the first few characters of call signs of radio stations (maritime, aeronautical, [[amateur radio]], broadcasting, etc.) define the country: the [[ITU prefix]], **[[ITU letter codes]] for member-countries, **Three-digit codes used to identify countries in maritime mobile radio transmissions, known as [[maritime identification digits]] *[[European Union]]: **Before the [[Enlargement of the European Union|2004 EU enlargement]] the EU used the UN Road Traffic Conventions [[List of international license plate codes|license plate codes]]; since then, it uses [[ISO 3166-1]], with 2 exceptions: ''EL'' (not ''GR'') is used for [[Greece]], and ''UK'' (not ''GB'') is used for the [[United Kingdom]]. [http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370100.htm] **The ''[[Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques]]'' (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics, NUTS) of the [[European Union]], mostly focusing on subdivisions of the EU member states *From the [[International Civil Aviation Organization]] (ICAO): **[[aircraft registration|aircraft registration prefixes]], **nationality letters for location indicators. * From the [[International Union of Railways]] (UIC): **[[UIC Country Code]] * [[GOST 7.67]] The developers of ISO 3166 intended that in time it would replace other coding systems in existence. ==Other codings== The following can represent countries: *The initial digits of International Standard Book Numbers ([[ISBN]]) are group identifiers for countries, areas, or language regions. *The first three digits of [[GS1]] Company Prefixes used to identify products, e.g. in [[barcode]]s, designate (national) numbering agencies. ==Lists of country codes by country== [[Country codes: A|A]] - [[Country codes: B|B]] - [[Country codes: C|C]] - [[Country codes: D-E|D-E]] - [[Country codes: F|F]] - [[Country codes: G|G]] - [[Country codes: H-I|H-I]] - [[Country codes: J-K|J-K]] - [[Country codes: L|L]] - [[Country codes: M|M]] - [[Country codes: N|N]] - [[Country codes: O-R|O-R]] - [[Country codes: S|S]] - [[Country codes: T|T]] - [[Country codes: U-Z|U-Z]] ==See also== *[[Language code]] *[[Numbering scheme]] *[[ISO 639]] language codes ==External links== *Comparison of various systems: http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/codes/country.htm *Another comparison: {{statoids|id=wab|title=Country Codes}} *[http://www.doublestandards.org/country/ list with flags] *[http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm United Nations Region Codes] [[Category:Country codes|*]] [[Category:Geocodes]] [[de:Ländercode]] [[es:Códigos de países]] [[fr:Code pays]] [[is:Landsnúmer]] [[nl:Landcode]] [[ja:国名コード]] [[ru:Код страны]] [[sh:Državni kod]] [[sv:Nationalitetsbeteckning]] [[th:รหัสประเทศ]] [[tr:Ülke_kodu]] [[yo:Àmìọ̀rọ̀ orílẹ̀-èdè]]