Country codes of Europe

	A	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	Country name	ISO 3166-1	IOC	FIFA	UNDP	abbrev	manual choice	Notes
2	Country name	alpha-3	IOC	FIFA	UNDP	abbrev	manual choice	Notes

3	Albania	ALB	ALB	ALB	ALB	ALB	ALB
4	Andorra	AND	AND	AND	AND	AND	AND
5	Armenia	ARM	ARM	ARM	ARM	ARM	ARM
6	Austria	AUT	AUT	AUT	AUS	AUS	AUT	The AUS abbrev would conflict with Australia
7	Azerbaijan	AZE	AZE	AZE	AZE	AZE	AZE
8	Belarus	BLR	BLR	BLR	BYE	BEL	BLR	The BEL abbrev would conflict with Belgium (and Belize)
9	Belgium	BEL	BEL	BEL	BEL	BEL	BEL	Maybe BGM would work?
10	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	BIH	BIH	BIH	BOS	BOS	If we want to include Bosnia and Herzegovina, it should be BHZ, not BIH...
11	Bulgaria	BGR	BUL	BUL	BUL	BUL	BUL
12	Croatia	HRV	CRO	CRO	CRO	CRO	CRO
13	Cyprus	CYP	CYP	CYP	CYP	CYP	CYP
14	Czechia	CZE	CZE	CZE	CEH	CZE	CZE
15	Denmark	DNK	DEN	DEN	DEN	DEN	DEN
16	Estonia	EST	EST	EST	EST	EST	EST
17	Finland	FIN	FIN	FIN	FIN	FIN	FIN
18	France	FRA	FRA	FRA	FRA	FRA	FRA
19	Georgia	GEO	GEO	GEO	GEO	GEO	GEO
20	Germany	DEU	GER	GER	GER	GER	GER	ISO uses the native language code DEU, probably due to lobbying
21	Greece	GRC	GRE	GRE	GRE	GRE	GRE
22	Hungary	HUN	HUN	HUN	HUN	HUN	HUN
23	Iceland	ISL	ISL	ISL	ICE	ICE	ICE	ISO uses the native language code ISL, not really sure why
24	Ireland	IRL	IRL	IRL	IRE	IRE	IRL	Apparently IRE is used to refer to the entire island
25	Italy	ITA	ITA	ITA	ITA	ITA	ITA
26	Kosovo	--	KOS	KVX	KOS	KOS	KOS
27	Latvia	LVA	LAT	LVA	LAT	LAT	LTV	Perhaps LTV?
28	Liechtenstein	LIE	LIE	LIE	LIE	LIE	LIE
29	Lithuania	LTU	LTU	LTU	LIT	LIT	LIT	Not sure why LIT isn't used. Or LTN
30	Luxembourg	LUX	LUX	LUX	LUX	LUX	LUX
31	Malta	MLT	MLT	MLT	MAT	MAL	MAL	I guess MLT encodes more of the name than MAL
32	Moldova	MDA	MDA	MDA	MOL	MOL	MDV	Perhaps MDV?
33	Monaco	MCO	MON	--	MNC	MON	MCO	MON could be either Monaco or Montenegro
34	Montenegro	MNE	MNE	MNE	MNE	MON	MTN	MON could be either Monaco or Montenegro. Perhaps MNG or MTN or MGR.
35	Netherlands	NLD	NED	NED	NET	NET	NLD	NET is an English word, could be confusing
36	North Macedonia	MKD	MKD	MKD	MKD	NOR	MCD	Perhaps MCD? MDN?
37	Norway	NOR	NOR	NOR	NOR	NOR	NOR
38	Poland	POL	POL	POL	POL	POL	POL
39	Portugal	PRT	POR	POR	POR	POR	POR
40	Romania	ROU	ROU	ROU	ROM	ROM	ROM	Not sure why they changed from ROM to ROU
41	Russia	RUS	RUS	RUS	RUS	RUS	RUS
42	San Marino	SMR	SMR	SMR	SNM	SAN	SMR	The SAN abbrev is too generic
43	Serbia	SRB	SRB	SRB	SRB	SER	SRB	I guess SRB encodes more of the name than SER
44	Slovakia	SVK	SVK	SVK	SLO	SLO	SVK	The SLO abbrev could be either Slovenia or Slovakia
45	Slovenia	SVN	SLO	SVN	SVN	SLO	SVN	The SLO abbrev could be either Slovenia or Slovakia
46	Spain	ESP	ESP	ESP	SPA	SPA	SPA	ISO uses the native language code ESP, probably due to lobbying
47	Sweden	SWE	SWE	SWE	SWE	SWE	SWE
48	Switzerland	CHE	SUI	SUI	SWI	SWI	SWI
49	Turkey	TUR	TUR	TUR	TUR	TUR	TUR
50	Ukraine	UKR	UKR	UKR	UKR	UKR	UKR
51	United Kingdom	GBR	GBR	--	UKM	UNI	UKD	Perhaps UKD? Or UNK
52	Vatican (Holy See)	VAT	--	--	HLS	VAT	VAT
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54	See also:
55	Comparison of alphabetic country codes
56	Template:Supranational European bodies
57	John D. Cook blog post: Country and language abbreviations
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59	Preferred	31	36	35	38	39
60	Undesirables	7	7	6	7	8
61	Not available	1	1	3	0	0
62	Score	23	28	26	31	31