Comparison of alphabetic country codes

Ambiguities

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

• BRN - IOC code for Bahrain and ISO code for Brunei

Historically, ambiguous trigraphs include:

• ANT - IOC code for Antigua and Barbuda, and historical ISO and FIFA code for the Netherlands Antilles (until 2010)
• BUR - IOC code for Burkina Faso (since 1984), and historical ISO and FIFA code for Burma (until 1989)

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:

• AUS - IOC, FIFA and ISO code for Australia, but UNDP code for Austria (Australia is AUL there)

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.

1. -- coding: utf-8 -- import re

lines = """ """.split( "\n" ) outs = [] re_junk = re.compile("( for i_line in range(len(lines)): line = lines[i_line] if len(line) 0: if line.find("|-") -1: outs.append("|-") else: fields = line.replace("||", "\t").split("\t") ioc = re_junk.sub("", fields[2]) fifa = re_junk.sub("", fields[3]) iso = re_junk.sub("", fields[4]) has_ioc = len(ioc) 0 has_fifa = len(fifa) 0 has_iso = len(iso) 0 colour = "" cat = [] if has_ioc and has_fifa and has_iso: cat.append("3") if ioc == fifa: if ioc == iso: cat.append("OFI") colour = "#ffffff" else: cat.append("OFï") colour = "#ffff99" elif ioc == iso: cat.append("OƒI") colour = "#ff99ff" else: if fifa == iso: cat.append("öFI") colour = "#99ffff" else: cat.append("öƒï") colour = "#999999"

elif has_ioc and has_fifa: cat.append("2") if ioc == fifa: cat.append("OF-") colour = "#ffff33" else: cat.append("öƒ-") colour = "#999933" elif has_ioc and has_iso: cat.append("2") if ioc == iso: cat.append("O-I") colour = "#ff33ff" else: cat.append("ö-ï") colour = "#993399" elif has_fifa and has_iso: cat.append("2") if fifa == iso: cat.append("-FI") colour = "#33ffff" else: cat.append("-ƒï") colour = "#339999"

else: cat.append("1") if has_ioc: cat.append("ö--") colour = "#cc6666" elif has_fifa: cat.append("-ƒ-") colour = "#669966" else: cat.append("--ï") colour = "#6666ff" print("|%s|%s|%s|%s:%s" % (ioc, fifa, iso, colour, "".join(cat))) outs.append('%s||bgcolor="%s"|%s' % (line, colour, "".join(cat)))

file_out = open(file[: file.rfind(".")] + ".wkt", "w") try: file_out.write("\n".join(outs)) finally: file_out.close()

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Former countries, former country names and former country codes

Codes are shown with their last year of use.

Notes

References

References

1. Jeffree, Iain. "FIFA Country Codes".
2. In Olympic Games, [[Virgin Islands]] means the [[United States Virgin Islands]], not [[British Virgin Islands]].
3. 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 [[association football. football]] matches.
4. The [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] is abbreviated as "DR Congo" in [[Olympic Games]], and as "Congo DR" in [[association football. football]] matches.
5. The [[Republic of the Congo]] is abbreviated as "Congo" in [[Olympic Games]] and [[association football. football]] matches.
6. [[Ivory Coast. Côte d'Ivoire]] is generally known in English as "[[Ivory Coast]]".
7. England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are given the [[ISO 3166-2]] codes {{mono. GB-ENG, {{mono. GB-NIR, {{mono. GB-SCT and {{mono. GB-WLS, respectively, under the [[ISO 3166-2:GB. entry for the United Kingdom]].
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. Competes as "Tahiti" in international football
10. [[Hong Kong]] is designated as "Hong Kong, China" by the [[International Olympic Committee. IOC]] and in [[association football. football]] matches.
11. It covers only the [[Republic of Ireland]] in the [[Olympic Games]] and [[association football. football]] matches. In [[FIFA]], the name "[[Republic of Ireland national football team. Republic of Ireland]]" is used in order to distinguish from [[Ireland national football team (1882–1950). Ireland]] as a former [[home nation]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. United Kingdom]].
12. North Korea is designated as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", abbreviated to "DPRK", in [[Olympic Games]], and as the "Korea DPR" in [[association football. football]] matches.
13. South Korea is designated as "Republic of Korea" in [[Olympic Games]], and as the "Korea Republic" in [[association football. football]] matches.
14. With mixed [[International recognition of Kosovo]], for ISO purposes, Kosovo is an 'autonomous province' of Serbia with [[ISO 3166-2]] code {{mono. RS-KM, under the [[ISO 3166-2:RS. entry for Serbia]]. A temporary placeholder code {{mono. XKX is used by several organisations for the country.
15. 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.
16. Northern Ireland has [[Flag of Northern Ireland. no official flag]]. The [[Ulster Banner]] is used by FIFA to represent Northern Ireland.
17. [[North Macedonia]] was previously designated as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in [[Olympic Games]], [[association football. football]] matches and most international organisations until the resolution of the [[Macedonia naming dispute]] with the implementation of the [[Prespa agreement]] in February 2019.
18. The name "Samoa" in a political sense contains only the [[Samoa. Independent State of Samoa]] and excludes [[American Samoa]].
19. TW and TWN is defined as "[[Taiwan, Province of China]]" in the ISO 3166 codes list. The [[Republic of China]] is designated as "{{TPE" in [[Olympic Games]] and [[association football. football]] matches. See also [[Chinese Taipei]] and the [[Political status of Taiwan]].
20. [[East Timor. 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. (February 2008 In FIFA, its four constituent countries have separate codes.)
22. The [[United States Virgin Islands]] is designated as just [[Virgin Islands]] in [[Olympic Games]].