ISO 3166 code lists

The short country names from ISO 3166-1 and the alpha-2 codes are made available by ISO at no charge for internal use and non-commercial purposes.

The lists below are extracted from ISO 3166-1. They contain all short country names and alpha-2 code elements officially published by ISO and they are updated whenever a change of country name and/or alpha-2 code element is made in ISO 3166-1.

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English country names and code elements:

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• TXT, semicolon delimited, 5 kB
• XML, zipped file, 3 kB

French country names and code elements:

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• TXT, semicolon delimited, 5 kB
• XML, zipped file, 3 kB

See: ISO 3166-1 decoding table

Also see: Microsoft® Access 2000 database products of the complete lists of codes and names from ISO 3166-1 (the country codes) and ISO 3166-2 (the country subdivision codes).