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Comparison of alphabetic country codes

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]

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:

  • VNM - historical IOC and ISO code for South Vietnam, became the ISO code for unified Vietnam
  • YEM - historical ISO code for the North Yemen, became the generally accepted code for unified Yemen

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.

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3OFIIOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist and are identical
3OFïIOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist, but only IOC and FIFA codes are identical
3OƒIIOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist, but only IOC and ISO codes are identical
3öFIIOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist, but only FIFA and ISO codes are identical
3öƒïIOC, FIFA and ISO codes exist and are different
2OF-Only IOC and FIFA codes exist and are identical
2O-IOnly IOC and ISO codes exist and are identical
2ö-ïOnly IOC and ISO codes exist and are different
2-FIOnly FIFA and ISO codes exist and are identical
2-ĕOnly FIFA and ISO codes exist and are different
1-ƒ-Only FIFA codes exist
1--ïOnly ISO codes exist

Former countries and former country names

Codes are shown with their last year of use.

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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
  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

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Jeffree, Iain. "FIFA Country Codes". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 19 September 2000. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. [2]
    The name "Samoa" in a political sense contains only the Independent State of Samoa and excludes American Samoa.
  3. [3]
    In Olympic Games, Virgin Islands means the United States Virgin Islands, not British Virgin Islands.
  4. [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. [5]
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "DR Congo" in Olympic Games, and as "Congo DR" in football matches.
  6. [6]
    The Republic of the Congo is abbreviated as "Congo" in Olympic Games and football matches.
  7. [7]
    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.
  8. [8]
    IOC considers Faroe Islands as a part of Denmark. However, Faroe Islands Paralympic Committee is a member of International Paralympic Committee, encoded as FRO.
  9. [9]
    Competes as "Tahiti" in international football
  10. [10]
    Hong Kong is designated as "Hong Kong, China" by the IOC, and "Hong Kong" in football matches.
  11. [11]
    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.
  12. [12]
    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.
  13. [13]
    South Korea is designated as "Republic of Korea" in Olympic Games, and as the "Korea Republic" in football matches.
  14. [14]
    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.
  15. [15]
    Northern Ireland has no official flag. The Ulster Banner is used by FIFA to represent Northern Ireland.
  16. [16]
    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.
  17. [17]
    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 football matches. See also Chinese Taipei and the Political status of Taiwan.
  18. [18]
    Timor-Leste is generally known in English as "East Timor". West Timor is a part of Indonesia.
  19. [19]
    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.
  20. [20]
    The United States Virgin Islands is designated as just Virgin Islands in Olympic Games.
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