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This is a list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes.

Historic NOCs and teams

Obsolete codes

Unlike the previous list, these codes no longer appear in the IOC results database. When a past athlete from one of these teams has won a medal, the new code is shown next to them instead.

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Two other significant code changes have occurred, both because of a change in the nation's designation as used by the IOC:

HOL was changed to NED for the Netherlands for the 1992 Games, reflecting the change in designation from Holland.
IRN was changed to IRI for Iran for the 1992 Games, reflecting the change in designation to Islamic Republic of Iran.

Special codes for Paralympics

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Code	Nation/Team	Years	Notes
IPP	Independent Paralympic Participants	1992	Used for Independent Paralympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Paralympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions.
IPA	Individual Paralympic Athletes	2000	De facto independent East Timor was not yet recognised as a sovereign state, and did not have a recognised National Paralympic Committee. Two athletes from the country gained the opportunity to in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC.
IPA	Independent Paralympic Athletes	2016	A team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as Independent Paralympic Athletes.
NPA	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	2018 2024	Used in 2018 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Was to be used in 2022 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,^[18] however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Games. Used again in the 2024 Summer Paralympics for both Russian and Belarusian athletes. In 2024, the designation was banned from using the Paralympic flag and instead used a white flag with black letters displaying "NPA" (but still used the Paralympic Anthem).^[19]
PNA	Paralympic Neutral Athletes	—	Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,^[18] however the Belarusian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Winter Paralympics and the code was not used.
RPC	RPC from the abbreviation for Russian Paralympic Committee	2020	Used for Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. The delegation used a flag with an altered emblem of the Russian Paralympic Committee (the original emblem being banned due to containing the flag of Russia). Was to be used in 2022 as well, however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
RPT	Refugee Paralympic Team	2020

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[3] Barbados did not send a delegation to the 1964 Summer Olympics, but is nevertheless listed as a participant with an official country code in the official Tokyo 1964 results book.^[2]

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Code	National Paralympic Committee	Link
MAC	Macau, China	Associação Recreativa dos Deficientes de Macau
FRO	Faroe Islands	The Faroese Sport Organisation for Disabled

Code	Nation/Team	Other codes used
AHO	Netherlands Antilles	ATO (1960) NAN (1964) code from French Antilles hollandaises
ANZ	Australasia	Also AUA^[1]
BOH	Bohemia
BWI	British West Indies	ANT (1960 1968) from Antilles WID (1964)
EUA	United Team of Germany	GER (1956–1964) code taken from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne
EUN	Unified Team	code from the French Équipe unifiée or Spanish Equipo Unificado
FRG	West Germany	ALL (1968 W) from French Allemagne ALE (1968 S) from Spanish Alemania GER (1972–1976) code FRG taken from Federal Republic of Germany
GDR	East Germany	ODE (1968 S) from German Ostdeutschland code GDR taken from German Democratic Republic
RU1	Russian Empire
SCG	Serbia and Montenegro	code from Serbian Србија и Црна Гора / Srbija i Crna Gora
TCH	Czechoslovakia	CSL (1956 W) CZE (1960 W) CSV (1960 S) CZS (1964 S) CHE (1968 S) from Spanish Checoslovaquia code taken from French Tchécoslovaquie
URS	Soviet Union	SOV (1968 W) code from French Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques (URSS)
VNM	South Vietnam	Code of the State of Vietnam and then Republic of Vietnam from 1952 to 1975.^[5]^[6]^[7]
YUG	Yugoslavia	JUG (1956–1960 1968 W) from Југославија/Jugoslavija in native languages YUS (1964 S)
ZZX	Mixed team

Code	Nation (NOC)	Years	Notes
BIR	Burma From French Birmanie	1948–1988	Now Myanmar (MYA)
CEY	Ceylon From French Ceylan	1948–1972	Now Sri Lanka (SRI)
DAH	Dahomey	1964–1976	Now Benin (BEN)
GUI	British Guiana	1948–1964	Now Guyana (GUY). The code former GUI has been reassigned to Guinea (GUI) in 1965 when its new NOC was recognized by the IOC and used publicly in their first competed games in 1968. All formerly known by BGU^[1]
HBR	British Honduras From French Honduras britannique	1968–1972	Now Belize (BIZ)
IHO	Dutch East Indies code from French Indes orientales hollandaises	1934–1938	Now Indonesia (INA)
KHM	Khmer Republic From French République khmère	1972	Now Cambodia (CAM)
MAL	Malaysia From French Malaisie	1956–1960	Competed independently before the formation of Malaysia in 1963. Now Malaysia (MAS)
NBO	North Borneo	1956
NRH	Northern Rhodesia	1964	Now Zambia (ZAM)
RAU	United Arab Republic code from French République arabe unie	1960	Now Egypt (EGY) and Syria (SYR)
RHO	Rhodesia also Southern Rhodesia and Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until it became Zimbabwe in 1980	1960–1972	Now Zimbabwe (ZIM)
ROC	Republic of China	1932–1976	Medal winners from 1948 and earlier display as China (CHN), while medal winners from after 1948 display as Chinese Taipei (TPE) under which the team now competes.
SAA	Saar	1952	Competed independently before rejoining West Germany (FRG) in 1957
UAR	United Arab Republic	1964–1968	Now Egypt (EGY)
VOL	Upper Volta	1972–1984	Now Burkina Faso (BUR)
WSM	Western Samoa	1984–1996	Now Samoa (SAM)
YAR	North Yemen code from Yemen Arab Republic	1984–1988	Competed independently before Yemeni unification in 1990. Now Yemen (YEM)
YMD	South Yemen code from Yemen Democratic Republic	1988
ZAI	Zaire From French Zaïre	1972–1996	Now Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD)

Code	Nation/team	Years	Notes
AIN	Individual Neutral Athletes from French Athlètes Individuels Neutres	2024	Used for Russian and Belarusian athletes competing as neutrals due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The delegation will use a flag and a one-off instrumental anthem assigned by the IOC.
ANZ	Australasia	1908–1912	Used in the IOC's medal database^[4] to identify the team from Australasia, composed of athletes from both Australia and New Zealand for the 1908 and 1912 Games. Both nations competed separately by 1920.
COR	Korea from French Corée	2018	Used for the unified Korean women's ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.^[8]
EOR	Refugee Olympic Team from French Équipe olympique des réfugiés	2020	Used for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Summer Olympics for athletes to compete who have been displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016.
EUA	United Team of Germany from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne	1956–1964	Used in the IOC's medal database^[4] to identify the United Team of Germany, composed of athletes representing the NOCs of both East Germany and West Germany for the 1956–1964 Games. The team was simply known as Germany in the official reports for those six games at the time.
EUN	Unified Team from French Équipe unifiée	1992	Used in 1992 (both Summer and Winter Games) for the Unified Team, composed of athletes from most of the ex-republics of the Soviet Union that chose to compete as a unified team. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania entered separately in 1992, whereas Russia and eleven other post-Soviet nations competed independently for the first time in 1994 and/or 1996.
IOP	Independent Olympic Participants	1992 2014	Used for independent Olympic participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions. At the 1992 Summer Olympics IOP was used as a designation for athletes from the Republic of Macedonia too. IOP was also used during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi by Indian athletes due to the Indian Olympic Association suspension.
IOA	Independent Olympic Athletes	2000 2012 2016	Used for Individual Olympic Athletes in 2000,^[9] a designation used for athletes from Timor-Leste before the formation of its NOC. IOA was used again in the 2012 Games, when it stood for Independent Olympic Athletes,^[10] comprising athletes from the former Netherlands Antilles and a runner from South Sudan. The Netherlands Antilles Olympic Committee's membership from the IOC was withdrawn the previous year, and South Sudan had not yet formed an NOC at the time. IOA was used again in 2016 for athletes from Kuwait as a result of the suspension of its National Olympic Committee.^[11]
IOC	Athletes from Kuwait	2010–2012	Used as the country code for Athletes from Kuwait, when the Kuwait Olympic Committee was suspended the first time, at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the 2010 Asian Games and the 2011 Asian Winter Games; for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
MIX	Mixed-NOCs	2010–	Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics.^[12]^[13]
OAR	Olympic Athletes from Russia	2018	Used for Olympic Athletes from Russia competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.^[14]
ROC	ROC from the abbreviation for Russian Olympic Committee	2020–2022	Used for Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.^[15]^[16] The delegation used a flag depicting the logo of the Russian Olympic Committee.
ROT	Refugee Olympic Team	2016	Used for the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics for athletes to compete who have been displaced from their home countries.^[17]
ZZX	Mixed team	1896–1904	Used in the IOC's medal database^[4] to identify medals won by mixed teams of athletes from multiple nations (such as the combination of France and Great Britain, for example), a situation that happened several times in the Games of 1896, 1900, and 1904.

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List of IOC country codes

Current NOCs

Current NPCs

Historic NOCs and teams

Codes still in use

Obsolete codes

Special codes for Olympics

Special codes for Paralympics

Special codes for World Games

See also

Notes

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Code	National Olympic Committee	Other codes used
AFG	Afghanistan
ALB	Albania
ALG	Algeria	AGR (1964) AGL (1968 S) from Spanish Argelia
AND	Andorra
ANG	Angola	ANO (As referenced in IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 Statistics Handbook)^[1]
ANT	Antigua and Barbuda
ARG	Argentina
ARM	Armenia
ARU	Aruba
ASA	American Samoa	AMS^[1]
AUS	Australia
AUT	Austria	current code from French Autriche
AZE	Azerbaijan
BAH	Bahamas
BAN	Bangladesh
BAR	Barbados	BAD (1964)^{[lower-alpha 1]}
BDI	Burundi
BEL	Belgium
BEN	Benin	DAY (1964) DAH (1968–1976) as Dahomey
BER	Bermuda
BHU	Bhutan
BIH	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BSH (1992 S), BOS^[1] current code from Bosnian Bosna i Hercegovina
BIZ	Belize	HBR (1968–1972) from French Honduras britannique as British Honduras; also BHO^[1]
BLR	Belarus
BOL	Bolivia
BOT	Botswana
BRA	Brazil
BRN	Bahrain	BHR^[1]
BRU	Brunei
BUL	Bulgaria
BUR	Burkina Faso	VOL (1972–1984) as Upper Volta; also BKF^[1]
CAF	Central African Republic	AFC (1968)
CAM	Cambodia	CAB (1964) KHM (1972) as Khmer Republic
CAN	Canada
CAY	Cayman Islands
CGO	Republic of the Congo
CHA	Chad	CHD (1964)
CHI	Chile	CIL (1956 W 1960 S) from Italian Cile
CHN	China	PRC (1952 S) as People's Republic of China
CIV	Ivory Coast	IVC (1964) CML (1968) from Spanish Costa de Marfil current code from French Côte d'Ivoire
CMR	Cameroon
COD	Democratic Republic of the Congo	COK (1968) as Congo-Kinshasa ZAI (1972–1996) as Zaire
COK	Cook Islands	CKI^[1]
COL	Colombia
COM	Comoros
CPV	Cape Verde	CVD^[1]
CRC	Costa Rica	COS (1964)
CRO	Croatia
CUB	Cuba
CYP	Cyprus
CZE	Czechia
DEN	Denmark	DAN (1960 S 1968 W) DIN (1968 S) previous codes taken from Italian Danimarca, French Danemark and Spanish Dinamarca
DJI	Djibouti
DMA	Dominica	DMN^[1]
DOM	Dominican Republic
ECU	Ecuador
EGY	Egypt	RAU (1960 1968) UAR (1964) as United Arab Republic previous codes taken from Italian Repubblica Araba Unita, French République Arabe Unie and Spanish República Árabe Unida
ERI	Eritrea
ESA	El Salvador	SAL (1964–1976)
ESP	Spain	SPA (1956–1964 1968 W) current code taken from French Espagne or Spanish España
EST	Estonia
ETH	Ethiopia	ETI (1960 1968)
FIJ	Fiji	FIG (1960) from Italian Figi
FIN	Finland
FRA	France
FSM	Federated States of Micronesia
GAB	Gabon
GAM	The Gambia
GBR	Great Britain	GRB (1956 W–1960) GBI (1964)
GBS	Guinea-Bissau
GEO	Georgia
GEQ	Equatorial Guinea	current code taken from French Guinée équatoriale
GER	Germany
GHA	Ghana
GRE	Greece
GRN	Grenada
GUA	Guatemala	GUT (1964)
GUI	Guinea
GUM	Guam
GUY	Guyana	GUA (1960) GUI (1964) BGU^[1]
HAI	Haiti
HKG	Hong Kong, China	HOK (1960–1968)
HON	Honduras
HUN	Hungary	UNG (1956 W 1960 S) from Italian Ungheria
INA	Indonesia	INS (1960)
IND	India
IRI	Iran	IRN (1956–1988) IRA (1968 W) current code from Islamic Republic of Iran
IRL	Ireland	current code taken from French Irlande
IRQ	Iraq	IRK (1960 1968) from French/Spanish Irak
ISL	Iceland	ICE (1960 W 1964 S) current code taken from French Islande, Icelandic Ísland or Spanish Islandia
ISR	Israel
ISV	Virgin Islands	current code taken from French Îles Vierges (des États-Unis)
ITA	Italy
IVB	British Virgin Islands	current code taken from French Îles Vierges britanniques
JAM	Jamaica
JOR	Jordan
JPN	Japan	GIA (1956 W 1960 S) from Italian Giappone JAP (1960 W)
KAZ	Kazakhstan
KEN	Kenya
KGZ	Kyrgyzstan
KIR	Kiribati
KOR	South Korea	COR (1956 W 1960 S 1968 S 1972 S) previous code taken from Italian Corea, French Corée and Spanish Corea
KOS	Kosovo
KSA	Saudi Arabia	ARS (1968–1976) from French Arabie saoudite SAU (1980–1984) current code from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
KUW	Kuwait
LAO	Laos
LAT	Latvia
LBA	Libya	LYA (1964) LBY (1968 W)
LBN	Lebanon	LEB (1960 W 1964 S) LIB (1964–2016) from French Liban
LBR	Liberia
LCA	Saint Lucia
LES	Lesotho
LIE	Liechtenstein	LIC (1956 W 1964 S 1968 W)
LTU	Lithuania	LIT (1992 W)
LUX	Luxembourg
MAD	Madagascar	MAG (1964)
MAR	Morocco	MRC (1964); current code from French Maroc
MAS	Malaysia	MAL (1964–1988)
MAW	Malawi
MDA	Moldova	MLD (1994)
MDV	Maldives
MEX	Mexico
MGL	Mongolia	MON (1968 W)
MHL	Marshall Islands
MKD	North Macedonia	current code taken from Macedonian Македонија/Makedonija
MLI	Mali
MLT	Malta	MAT (1960–1964)
MNE	Montenegro
MON	Monaco
MOZ	Mozambique
MRI	Mauritius
MTN	Mauritania
MYA	Myanmar	BIR (1948–1960 1968–1988) from French Birmanie BUR (1964) as Burma
NAM	Namibia
NCA	Nicaragua	NCG (1964) NIC (1968)
NED	Netherlands	OLA (1956 W) from Italian Olanda NET (1960 W) PBA (1960 S) from Italian Paesi Bassi NLD (1964 S) HOL (1968–1988) as Holland current code taken from Dutch Nederland
NEP	Nepal
NGR	Nigeria	NIG (1960 S) NGA (1964)
NIG	Niger	NGR (1964)
NOR	Norway
NRU	Nauru
NZL	New Zealand	NZE (1960 1968 W)
OMA	Oman
PAK	Pakistan
PAN	Panama
PAR	Paraguay
PER	Peru
PHI	Philippines	FIL (1960 1968) from Spanish Filipinas and Italian Filippine
PLE	Palestine
PLW	Palau
PNG	Papua New Guinea	NGY (1976–1980) NGU (1984–1988)
POL	Poland
POR	Portugal
PRK	North Korea	NKO (1964 S 1968 W) CDN (1968) from French Corée du Nord or Spanish Corea del Norte current code from People's Republic of Korea
PUR	Puerto Rico	PRI (1960) PRO (1968)
QAT	Qatar
ROU	Romania	ROM (1956–1960 1972–2006) RUM (1964–1968) from obsolete spelling Rumania current code from French Roumanie
RSA	South Africa	SAF (1960–1972) current code from Republic of South Africa
RUS	Russia	From 1994 to 2016
RWA	Rwanda
SAM	Samoa	WSM (1984–1996) as Western Samoa
SEN	Senegal	SGL (1964)
SEY	Seychelles
SGP	Singapore	SIN (1959–2016)
SKN	Saint Kitts and Nevis
SLE	Sierra Leone	SLA (1968)
SLO	Slovenia
SMR	San Marino	SMA (1960–1964)
SOL	Solomon Islands
SOM	Somalia
SRB	Serbia
SRI	Sri Lanka	CEY (1948–1964 1972) as Ceylon CEI (1968 S) from Spanish Ceilán
SSD	South Sudan
STP	São Tomé and Príncipe
SUD	Sudan
SUI	Switzerland	SVI (1956 W 1960 S) from Italian Svizzera SWI (1960 W 1964 S) current code from French Suisse
SUR	Suriname
SVK	Slovakia
SWE	Sweden	SVE (1956 W 1960 S) from Italian Svezia SUE (1968 S) from Spanish Suecia
SWZ	Eswatini	current code from former name Swaziland
SYR	Syria	SIR (1968) from Spanish Siria
TAN	Tanzania
TGA	Tonga	TON (1984)
THA	Thailand
TJK	Tajikistan
TKM	Turkmenistan
TLS	East Timor	current code taken from Portuguese Timor-Leste
TOG	Togo
TPE	Chinese Taipei^[3]	RCF (1956–1960) as Republic of China, Formosa TWN (1964–1968) as Taiwan ROC (1972–1976) as Republic of China
TTO	Trinidad and Tobago	TRT (1964–1968) TRI (1972–2012)
TUN	Tunisia
TUR	Turkey
TUV	Tuvalu
UAE	United Arab Emirates
UGA	Uganda
UKR	Ukraine
URU	Uruguay	URG (1968)
USA	United States	SUA (1960 S) from Italian Stati Uniti d'America EUA (1968 S) from French États-Unis d'Amérique or Spanish Estados Unidos de América
UZB	Uzbekistan
VAN	Vanuatu
VEN	Venezuela
VIE	Vietnam	VET (1964) VNM (1952–1975) as Republic of Vietnam
VIN	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
YEM	Yemen
ZAM	Zambia	NRH (1964) as Northern Rhodesia
ZIM	Zimbabwe	RHO (1960–1972) as Rhodesia