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FIPS 10-4 to ISO 3166-1 Country Codes mapping

Map FIPS 10-4 2-letter country codes to the equivalent ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 2-letter country codes. Our semi-colon deliminated text file maps the FIPS 10-4 code (1st column) to the ISO 3166-1 code equivalent (2nd column), or to the inclusive (3rd column) country.

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Country Codes to Country Names mapping

Map ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric country codes to the corresponding country name. Our CSV semi-colon deliminated text file maps the ISO 3166-1 country codes to the ISO 3166-1, U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names (UNGEGN), and U.K. Permanent Committee on Geographic Names (PCGN) country names.

Metadata

Abbreviations

ISO : International Standards Organization
BGN : U.S. Board on Geographic Names
UNGEGN : United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names
PCGN : U.K. Permanent Committee on Geographic Names

Column 1: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code.
Column 2: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code.
Column 3: ISO 3166-1 numeric code.
Column 4: ISO 3166-1 official English short name (Gazetteer order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. Bolivia, Plurinational State of

Column 5: ISO 3166-1 official English short name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. Plurinational State of Bolivia

Column 6: ISO 3166-1 official English romanized short name (Gazetteer order, w/diacritics).

Ex. Åland Islands

Column 7: ISO 3166-1 official English romanized short name (proper reading order, w/diacritics).

Ex. Åland Islands

Column 8: ISO 3166-1 official French short name (Gazetteer order, w/diacritics). By French grammatical convention, adjectives are lowercased.

Ex. Syrienne, République arabe

Column 9: ISO 3166-1 official French short name (proper reading order, w/diacritics). By French grammatical convention, adjectives are lowercased.

Ex. République arabe syrienne

Column 10: ISO 3166-1 official Spanish short name (Gazetteer order, w/diacritics).

Ex. República Checa

Column 11: UNGEGN English formal name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. Czech Republic

Column 12: UNGEGN French formal name (proper reading order, w/diacritics). By French grammatical convention, adjectives are lowercased.

Ex. République tchéque

Column 13: UNGEGN Spanish formal name (proper reading order, w/diacritics).

Ex. la República Checa

Column 14: UNGEGN Russian cyrillic short name (Gazetter order).

Ex. Австрия

Column 15: UNGEGN Russian cyrillic formal name (proper reading order).

Ex. Австрийская Республика

Column 16: UNGEGN local romanized short name (proper reading order, w/diacritics). By French grammatical convention, adjectives are lowercased.

Ex. Österreich

Column 17: UNGEGN local romanized formal name (proper reading order, w/diacritics). By French grammatical convention, adjectives are lowercased.

Ex. la République centrafricaine

Column 18: FAO Italian short name (Gazetteer order, w/diacritics).

Ex. Perù

Column 19: FAO Italian short name (proper reading order, w/diacritics).

Ex. Perù

Column 20: FAO Italian official name (proper reading order).

Ex. Repubblica del Perù

Column 21: BGN approved English short name (Gazetteer order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. Korea, South

Column 22: BGN approved English short name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. South Korea

Column 23: BGN approved English long name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. Syrian Arab Republic

Column 24: BGN approved local short name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics). The convention of lowercasing adjectives for the French language is not followed.

Ex. Oesterreich

Column 25: BGN approved local long name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics). The convention of lowercasing adjectives for the French language is not followed.

Ex. Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Republique Centrafricaine

Column 26: PCGN approved English short name (Gazetter order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. Korea, North

Column 27: PCGN approved English short name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. North Korea

Column 28: PCGN approved English long name (proper reading order, w/o diacritics).

Ex. Democratic People's Republic of Korea

The ISO 3166-1 official English names, UNGEGN English names, and BGN names are all UTF-7 (w/o diacritics). All remaining names are UTF-8 (romanized - w/diacritics).

For UNGEGN and BGN local names, when there is more than one language local name, each local name is followed by the 639-1 alpha-2 language code within paranthesis (xx) and separated by a slash (/). Ex. Canada(en)/le Canada(fr)

Examples

AT; AUT; 40; Austria; Austria; Austria; Austria; Autriche; Autriche; Austria; the Republic of Austria; la République d'Autriche; la República de Austria; Австрия; Австрийская Республика; Österreich; Republik Österreich; Austria; Austria; Republic of Austria; Oesterreich; Republik Oesterreich; Austria; Austria; Republic of Austria

References

ISO 3166-1 official English and French short country names, and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes obtained from the International Standards Organization ISO 3166-1 Country Names and Codes.

The ISO 3166-1 codes are inclusive of ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-10, 2011-8-9

Clarification by ISO that these codes may be used free-of-charge in commercial applications is stated at: ISO reaffirms free-of-charge use of its country, currency and language codes.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes and 3-digit numeric codes obtained from the United Nations Statistics Division Countries or areas, codes and abbreviations, Dec. 2010.
ISO 3166-1 official Spanish short country names obtained from the last revision of the United Nations Statisical Division (UNSD) Uniform Country Code for Statistical Use - Official Spanish Names, 1999 with 2001 corrections, Series M, No. 49, Rev.4; which covered 229 of the 249 countries. The remaining 20 country names were hand-translated using Google.
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names (UNGEGN) English, French and Spanish formal, Russian and local short and formal country names obtained from the UNGEGN Geographical Names Multilingual, multiscriptual dataset of names of countries, capitals and major cities, Dec. 2010.
US Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approved English and local short and long country names obtained from the CIA World Factbook Country Name Listing. If the short name was not listed, the approved short name was looked up directly in the National Spatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) GEONet Server database.
UK Permanent Committee on Geographic Names (PCGN) for offical British use approved English short and long country names obtained from the Country Names.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Italian short, proper and offical names country names obtained from the FAO Country Profiles - Geopolitical Information.

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HTML Forms - Input Selection: Countries of the World

Use these HTML form snippets in an HTML page for selecting a country from a list of countries of the world. The country names in the HTML form snippets conforms to either an ISO, BGN, PCGN or UNGEGN country names standard. Each form snippet is constructed as an HTML <select> tag, whose value is the selected country, consisting of an <option> tag per country.

The HTML forms below cover four of the six United Nations official languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian), and the local romanized language, in Gazetteer order.

References

ISO 3166-1 official English and French short country names obtained from the International Standards Organization ISO 3166-1 Country Names and Codes.

The ISO 3166-1 codes are inclusive of ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-10, 2011-8-9

Both ISO and UN publications show both english only characters and accented latin characters (romanized) for the countries Aland Islands, Cote d'Ivoire, Curacao, Reunion, and Saint Barthelemy.

Clarification by ISO that these codes may be used free-of-charge in commercial applications is stated at: ISO reaffirms free-of-charge use of its country, currency and language codes.

ISO 3166-1 official Spanish short country names obtained from the last revision of the United Nations Statisical Division (UNSD) Uniform Country Code for Statistical Use - Official Spanish Names, 1999 with 2001 corrections, Series M, No. 49, Rev.4; which covered 229 of the 249 countries. The remaining 20 country names were hand-translated using Google.
US Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approved English short country names obtained from the CIA World Factbook Country Name Listing. If the short name was not listed, the approved short name was looked up directly in the National Spatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) GEONet Server database.
UK Permanent Committee on Geographic Names (PCGN) for offical British use approved English short country names obtained from the Country Names.
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names (UNGEGN) English, French and Spanish formal, Russian and local short and formal country names obtained from the UNGEGN Geographical Names Multilingual, multiscriptual dataset of names of countries, capitals and major cities, Dec. 2010.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Italian short, proper and offical names country names obtained from the FAO Country Profiles - Geopolitical Information.

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ISO 639-1/2 Language Codes to Language Names

Map ISO 639-1/2 2 and 3-letterlanguage codes to the language name in English and French. Our semi-colon deliminated text file maps the ISO 639-1 2-letter codes (1st column) and 639-2 3-letter codes (2nd column) to the full language name in English (3rd column), and French (4th column).

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Countries of the World (COW)

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