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Three-digit numeric code to identify countries
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 similar 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 were released by the United Nations Statistics Division since as early as 1970.[1]
An advantage of numeric codes over alphabetic codes is script (writing system) independence.[2] The ISO 3166-1 alphabetic codes (alpha-2 and alpha-3) use letters from the 26-letter English alphabet and are suitable for languages based on the Latin alphabet. For people and systems using non-Latin scripts (such as Arabic or 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 loss of mnemonic convenience.
Another advantage is that when countries merge or split, they will get a new numeric code, while the alphabetic code stays in use for (a part of) that country. A persistent number is needed in datasets with historical country information.
Officially assigned code elements[edit]The following is a complete list of the current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 numeric codes,[3] using a title case version of the English short names officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA):
Code Country name Notes 004 Afghanistan 008 Albania 010 Antarctica 012 Algeria 016 American Samoa 020 Andorra 024 Angola 028 Antigua and Barbuda 031 Azerbaijan Before 1991: part of the USSR 032 Argentina 036 Australia 040 Austria 044 Bahamas 048 Bahrain 050 Bangladesh 051 Armenia Before 1991: part of the USSR 052 Barbados 056 Belgium 060 Bermuda 064 Bhutan 068 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 070 Bosnia and Herzegovina Before 1992: part of Yugoslavia 072 Botswana 074 Bouvet Island 076 Brazil 084 Belize Formerly British Honduras 086 British Indian Ocean Territory 090 Solomon Islands Formerly British Solomon Islands 092 Virgin Islands (British) 096 Brunei Darussalam 100 Bulgaria 104 Myanmar Formerly Burma 108 Burundi 112 Belarus Formerly Byelorussian SSR 116 Cambodia 120 Cameroon 124 Canada 132 Cabo Verde Formerly Cape Verde 136 Cayman Islands 140 Central African Republic 144 Sri Lanka Formerly Ceylon 148 Chad 152 Chile 156 China 158 Taiwan, Province of China 162 Christmas Island 166 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 170 Colombia 174 Comoros 175 Mayotte Before 1975: part of Comoros; ISO code assigned in 1993 178 Congo 180 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 184 Cook Islands 188 Costa Rica 191 Croatia Before 1992: part of Yugoslavia 192 Cuba 196 Cyprus 203 Czechia Before 1993: part of Czechoslovakia 204 Benin Formerly Dahomey 208 Denmark 212 Dominica 214 Dominican Republic 218 Ecuador 222 El Salvador 226 Equatorial Guinea 231 Ethiopia 232 Eritrea Before 1993: part of Ethiopia 233 Estonia Before 1991: part of the USSR 234 Faroe Islands Previously spelled as Faeroe Islands 238 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 239 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Before 1993: part of the Falkland Islands 242 Fiji 246 Finland 248 Åland Islands Before 2004: included in Finland 250 France 254 French Guiana 258 French Polynesia 260 French Southern Territories 262 Djibouti Formerly French Territory of the Afars and the Issas 266 Gabon 268 Georgia Before 1991: part of the USSR 270 Gambia 275 Palestine, State of Replaced the Gaza Strip, which was assigned code 274User-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. 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.[4]
Examples include 926 for Kosovo and 977 for Cyprus used by Dun & Bradstreet.[5]
When countries merge, split, or undergo territorial change, their numeric codes are withdrawn and new numeric codes are assigned. For example:
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 withdrawn from ISO 3166-1:[7]
The following numeric codes were also assigned by the United Nations Statistics Division, but these territories were never officially included in ISO 3166-1:[1]
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.
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