Information on "Serbia and Montenegro"

The ISO 3166 Maintenance agency is aware of the recent name change of "Yugoslavia" to "Serbia and Montenegro". The United Nations have informed ISO that the change of country name took effect on 2003-02-04.

The ISO 3166 Maintenance agency has started the process of determining a suitable alpha-2 and alpha-3 code element for the new country name. The process, which involves the authorities in Serbia and Montenegro, will take several weeks before it can be completed.

The new code elements will be announced on this Website as soon as they are available. The ISO 3166-1 Newsletter will be made available from the updates section of this website.

We recommend that the code elements presently representing the country name Yugoslavia in ISO 3166-1 should be used until the new code elements are announced.

In the meantime we thank you for your interest in ISO 3166 and ask for your understanding that we cannot provide you with details before the official decision is taken.