ISO 3166-1 numeric

ISO 3166-1 numeric (or numeric-3) codes are three-digit country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. They are identical to the three-digit country codes developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, from which they originate in its UN M.49 standard. They were first included as part of the ISO 3166 standard in its second edition in 1981, but they have been released by the United Nations Statistics Division since as early as 1970.

An advantage of numeric codes over alphabetic codes is script (writing system) independence. The ISO 3166-1 alphabetic codes (alpha-2 and alpha-3) use letters from the English alphabet and are suitable for languages based on the Latin alphabet. For people and systems using non-Latin scripts (such as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hangul, and Japanese), the English alphabet may be unavailable or difficult to use, understand, or correctly interpret. While numeric codes overcome the problems of script dependence, this independence comes at the cost of mnemonic convenience.

Current codes

Officially assigned code elements

The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 numeric codes, using the English short country names officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):

Code	Country name
004	Afghanistan
008	Albania
010	Antarctica
012	Algeria
016	American Samoa
020	Andorra
024	Angola
028	Antigua and Barbuda
031	Azerbaijan
032	Argentina
036	Australia
040	Austria
044	Bahamas
048	Bahrain
050	Bangladesh
051	Armenia
052	Barbados
056	Belgium
060	Bermuda
064	Bhutan
068	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
070	Bosnia and Herzegovina
072	Botswana
074	Bouvet Island
076	Brazil
084	Belize
086	British Indian Ocean Territory
090	Solomon Islands
092	Virgin Islands, British
096	Brunei Darussalam
100	Bulgaria
104	Myanmar
108	Burundi
112	Belarus
116	Cambodia
120	Cameroon
124	Canada
132	Cape Verde
136	Cayman Islands
140	Central African Republic
144	Sri Lanka
148	Chad
152	Chile
156	China
158	Taiwan, Province of China
162	Christmas Island
166	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
170	Colombia
174	Comoros
175	Mayotte
178	Congo
180	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
184	Cook Islands
188	Costa Rica
191	Croatia
192	Cuba
196	Cyprus
203	Czech Republic
204	Benin
208	Denmark
212	Dominica
214	Dominican Republic
218	Ecuador
222	El Salvador
226	Equatorial Guinea
231	Ethiopia
232	Eritrea
233	Estonia
234	Faroe Islands
238	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
239	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
242	Fiji
246	Finland
248	Aland Islands !Åland Islands
250	France
254	French Guiana
258	French Polynesia
260	French Southern Territories
262	Djibouti
266	Gabon
268	Georgia
270	Gambia
275	Palestinian Territory, Occupied
276	Germany
288	Ghana
292	Gibraltar
296	Kiribati
300	Greece
304	Greenland
308	Grenada
312	Guadeloupe
316	Guam
320	Guatemala
324	Guinea
328	Guyana
332	Haiti
334	Heard Island and McDonald Islands
336	Holy See (Vatican City State)
340	Honduras
344	Hong Kong
348	Hungary
352	Iceland
356	India
360	Indonesia
364	Iran, Islamic Republic of
368	Iraq
372	Ireland
376	Israel
380	Italy
384	Cote d'Ivoire !Côte d'Ivoire
388	Jamaica
392	Japan
398	Kazakhstan
400	Jordan
404	Kenya
408	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
410	Korea, Republic of
414	Kuwait
417	Kyrgyzstan
418	Lao People's Democratic Republic
422	Lebanon
426	Lesotho
428	Latvia
430	Liberia
434	Libya
438	Liechtenstein
440	Lithuania
442	Luxembourg
446	Macao
450	Madagascar
454	Malawi
458	Malaysia
462	Maldives
466	Mali
470	Malta
474	Martinique
478	Mauritania
480	Mauritius
484	Mexico
492	Monaco
496	Mongolia
498	Moldova, Republic of
499	Montenegro
500	Montserrat
504	Morocco
508	Mozambique
512	Oman
516	Namibia
520	Nauru
524	Nepal
528	Netherlands
531	Curaçao
533	Aruba
534	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
535	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
540	New Caledonia
548	Vanuatu
554	New Zealand
558	Nicaragua
562	Niger
566	Nigeria
570	Niue
574	Norfolk Island
578	Norway
580	Northern Mariana Islands
581	United States Minor Outlying Islands
583	Micronesia, Federated States of
584	Marshall Islands
585	Palau
586	Pakistan
591	Panama
598	Papua New Guinea
600	Paraguay
604	Peru
608	Philippines
612	Pitcairn
616	Poland
620	Portugal
624	Guinea-Bissau
626	Timor-Leste
630	Puerto Rico
634	Qatar
638	Reunion !Réunion
642	Romania
643	Russian Federation
646	Rwanda
652	Saint Barthélemy
654	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
659	Saint Kitts and Nevis
660	Anguilla
662	Saint Lucia
663	Saint Martin (French part)
666	Saint Pierre and Miquelon
670	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
674	San Marino
678	Sao Tome and Principe
682	Saudi Arabia
686	Senegal
688	Serbia
690	Seychelles
694	Sierra Leone
702	Singapore
703	Slovakia
704	Viet Nam
705	Slovenia
706	Somalia
710	South Africa
716	Zimbabwe
724	Spain
728	South Sudan
729	Sudan
732	Western Sahara
740	Suriname
744	Svalbard and Jan Mayen
748	Swaziland
752	Sweden
756	Switzerland
760	Syrian Arab Republic
762	Tajikistan
764	Thailand
768	Togo
772	Tokelau
776	Tonga
780	Trinidad and Tobago
784	United Arab Emirates
788	Tunisia
792	Turkey
795	Turkmenistan
796	Turks and Caicos Islands
798	Tuvalu
800	Uganda
804	Ukraine
807	Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
818	Egypt
826	United Kingdom
831	Guernsey
832	Jersey
833	Isle of Man
834	Tanzania, United Republic of
840	United States
850	Virgin Islands, U.S.
854	Burkina Faso
858	Uruguay
860	Uzbekistan
862	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
876	Wallis and Futuna
882	Samoa
887	Yemen
894	Zambia

User-assigned code elements

User-assigned code elements are codes at the disposal of users who need to add further names of countries, territories, or other geographical entities to their in-house application of ISO 3166-1, and the ISO 3166/MA will never use these codes in the updating process of the standard. The numeric codes 900 to 999 can be user-assigned.

Deleted codes

When countries merge, split, or undergo territorial change, their numeric codes are deleted and new numeric codes are assigned. For example:

• East Germany and West Germany used numeric codes 278 and 280 respectively before their unification in 1990. Since then, the unified Germany has used numeric code 276, while keeping the alphabetic codes for West Germany.
• Ethiopia used numeric code 230 before Eritrea split away in 1993. Since then, Ethiopia has used numeric code 231, while keeping the same alphabetic codes.
• Sudan used numeric code 736 before South Sudan split away in 2011. Since then, Sudan has used numeric code 729, while keeping the same alphabetic codes.

If a country changes its name without any territorial change, its numeric code remains the same. For example, when Burma was renamed Myanmar without territorial change in 1989, its alphabetic codes were changed, but its numeric code 104 has remained the same.

The following numeric codes have been deleted from ISO 3166-1:

Code	Country name
080	British Antarctic Territory
128	Canton and Enderbury Islands
200	Czechoslovakia
216	Dronning Maud Land
230	Ethiopia (before Eritrea split away in 1993)
249	France, Metropolitan
278	German Democratic Republic (i.e., East Germany)
280	Germany, Federal Republic of (i.e., West Germany)
396	Johnston Island
488	Midway Islands
530	Netherlands Antilles (after Aruba split away in 1986)
532	Netherlands Antilles (before Aruba split away in 1986)
536	Neutral Zone
582	Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the
590	Panama (before adding Panama Canal Zone in 1979)
594	Panama Canal Zone
658	Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla
698	Sikkim
714	Viet-Nam, Republic of (i.e., South Vietnam)
720	Yemen, Democratic (i.e., South Yemen)
736	Sudan (before South Sudan split away in 2011)
810	USSR
849	U.S. Miscellaneous Pacific Islands
872	Wake Island
886	Yemen Arab Republic (i.e., North Yemen)
890	Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
891	Serbia and Montenegro (original name: Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of)

The following numeric codes were also assigned by the United Nations Statistics Division, but these territories were never officially included in ISO 3166-1:

Code	Territory name
274	Gaza Strip (Palestine)
282	German Democratic Republic, Berlin
284	Germany, West Berlin
650	Ryukyu Islands
728	Spanish North Africa (note: this code is now used by South Sudan)
830	Channel Islands

In the UN M.49 standard developed by the United Nations Statistics Division, additional numeric codes are used to represent geographical regions and groupings of countries and areas for statistical processing purposes, but these codes are not included in ISO 3166-1. Unlike alphabetic codes, there are no reserved numeric codes in ISO 3166-1.

Sources and external links

• ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use, United Nations Statistics Division
  • Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations — list of alpha-3 and numeric codes (a few territories officially assigned codes in ISO 3166-1 are not included in this list)
  • Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings
  • Country or area numerical codes added or changed since 1982
• The World Factbook (public domain), Central Intelligence Agency
  • Appendix D – Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes — comparison of FIPS 10, ISO 3166, and STANAG 1059 country codes
• Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids"), Statoids.com
  • Country codes — comparison of ISO 3166-1 country codes with other country codes
  • ISO 3166-1 Change History