Comparison of alphabetic country codes

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This is a comparison of the IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166-1 three-letter codes, combined into one table for easy reference. Highlighted rows indicate those entries in which the three-letter codes differ from column to column. The last column indicates the number of codes present followed by letters to indicate which codes are present (O for Olympic, F for FIFA, and I for ISO) and dashes when a code is absent; capital letters indicate codes which match; lower case letters indicate codes which differ. [1]

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Ambiguities

Currently, the only ambiguous trigraph between IOC, FIFA and ISO codes is:

Historically, ambiguous trigraphs include:

In the following cases, a code for a historical country or territory matches a modern code of the country it merged into:

Including other lists of country three-letter-codes increases the number of ambiguities. For example:

List

This list only includes nations or territories that have been assigned at least one of these three types of country codes. For a more complete list of countries, see list of countries.

*Explanation of comparison codes in the final column:
3/2/1 The number of assigned codes
O(ö) IOC code is (isn't) identical to another code
F(ƒ) FIFA code is (isn't) identical to another code
I(ï) ISO code is (isn't) identical to another code
3OFIIOC, FIFA and ISO codes are all identical to each other
3OFïIOC and FIFA codes are identical; ISO code is different
3OƒIIOC and ISO codes are identical; FIFA code is different
3öFIFIFA and ISO codes are identical; IOC code is different
3öƒïIOC, FIFA and ISO codes are all different from each other
2OF-IOC and FIFA codes are identical; ISO code not assigned
2O-IIOC and ISO codes are identical; FIFA code not assigned
2ö-ïIOC and ISO codes are different; FIFA code not assigned
2-FIFIFA and ISO codes are identical; IOC code not assigned
2-ĕFIFA and ISO codes are different; IOC code not assigned
1-ƒ-Only FIFA code exists
1--ïOnly ISO code exists

Former countries, former country names and former country codes

Codes are shown with their last year of use.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ ISO and FIFA code BHR
  2. ↑ IOC and FIFA code BRU
  3. ↑ current ISO and FIFA code ATG
  4. ↑ IOC code AHO from French Antilles hollandaises
  5. ↑ The Netherlands Antilles as a constituent country of the Netherlands was dissolved in 2010, with all island territories remaining a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands but with various legal statuses.
  6. ↑ ISO and FIFA code BFA
  7. ↑ previously Burkina Faso was Upper Volta, and the IOC code was VOL, the ISO code HVO, from French Haute-Volta and the FIFA code UPV
  8. ↑ IOC code BIR, from French Birmanie
  9. ↑ at which point Burma became Myanmar and the FIFA and IOC codes became MYA, while the ISO code became MMR
  10. ↑ FIFA code VSO
  11. ↑ current IOC and FIFA code VIE
  12. ↑ ISO and FIFA code YAR, from Yemen Arab Republic

References

  1. ↑ Jeffree, Iain. "FIFA Country Codes". RSSSF . Archived from the original on 19 September 2000. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 The name "Samoa" in a political sense contains only the Independent State of Samoa and excludes American Samoa.
  3. ↑ In Olympic Games, Virgin Islands means the United States Virgin Islands, not British Virgin Islands.
  4. ↑ 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 football matches.
  5. ↑ The Democratic Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "DR Congo" in Olympic Games, and as "Congo DR" in football matches.
  6. ↑ The Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "Congo" in Olympic Games and football matches.
  7. ↑ Côte d'Ivoire is generally known in English as "Ivory Coast".
  8. 1 2 3 4 England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are given the ISO 3166-2 codes GB-ENG, GB-NIR, GB-SCT and GB-WLS, respectively, under the entry for the United Kingdom.
  9. ↑ IOC considers Faroe Islands as a part of Denmark. However, Faroe Islands Paralympic Committee is a member of International Paralympic Committee, encoded as FRO.
  10. ↑ Competes as "Tahiti" in international football
  11. ↑ Hong Kong is designated as "Hong Kong, China" by the IOC and in football matches.
  12. ↑ It covers only the Republic of Ireland in the Olympic Games and football 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.
  13. ↑ North Korea is designated as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", abbreviated to "DPRK", in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea DPR" in football matches.
  14. ↑ South Korea is designated as "Republic of Korea" in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea Republic" in football matches.
  15. ↑ With mixed International recognition of Kosovo, for ISO purposes, Kosovo is an 'autonomous province' of Serbia with ISO 3166-2 code RS-KM, under the entry for Serbia. A temporary placeholder code XKX is used by several organisations for the country.
  16. ↑ IOC considers Macau as a part of China. However, the National Paralympic Committee of Macao, China is a member of International Paralympic Committee, encoded as MAC.
  17. ↑ Northern Ireland has no official flag. The Ulster Banner is used by FIFA to represent Northern Ireland.
  18. ↑ North Macedonia was previously designated as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in Olympic Games, football matches and most international organisations until the resolution of the Macedonia naming dispute with the implementation of the Prespa agreement in February 2019.
  19. ↑ TW and TWN is defined as "Taiwan, Province of China" in the ISO 3166 codes list. The Republic of China is designated as "Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei" in Olympic Games and football matches. See also Chinese Taipei and the Political status of Taiwan.
  20. ↑ Timor-Leste is generally known in English as "East Timor". West Timor is a part of Indonesia.
  21. ↑ 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".[ citation needed ] In FIFA, its four constituent countries have separate codes.
  22. ↑ The United States Virgin Islands is designated as just Virgin Islands in Olympic Games.
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