Country Initials

I did a search just to see if there wasn't a thread on this already.

Does anyone on here recognize all or most of the country initials? There are some that really leave me scratching my head.

One is [ES], part of me wants to say Spain, but shouldn't Spain be [SP]? Perhaps it is for Estonia?

I know:
[JP]=Japan
[FR]=France
[US]=United States
[CA]=Canada
[GB]=Great Britain (I'm assuming)
[NL]=Netherlands(?)
[DE]=Denmark(?)

I've seen [HK] as well and the only thing that I could think of for that is Hong Kong, although I'm probably wrong heh.

 

ES = Spain = España

And HK is Hong Kong. Even in the Olympics they went by HK and not with China.

 

Thanks to MasterGT and Cobra Girl


Country Abbreviations

AF - Afghanistan
AL - Albania
DZ - Algeria
AS - American Samoa
AD - Andorra
AO - Angola
AI - Anguilla
AQ - Antarctica
AG - Antigua & Barbuda
AR - Argentina
AM - Armenia
AW - Aruba
AU - Australia
AT - Austria
AZ - Azerbaijan

BS - Bahamas
BH - Bahrain
BD - Bangladesh
BB - Barbados
BY - Belarus
BE - Belgium
BZ - Belize
BJ - Benin
BM - Bermuda
BT - Bhutan
BO - Bolivia
BA - Bosnia & Herzegovina
BW - Botswana
BV - Bouvet Island
BR - Brazil
IO - British Indian Ocean Territory
VG - British Virgin Islands
BN - Brunei - Negara Brunei Darussalam
BG - Bulgaria
BF - Burkina Faso
BI - Burundi

KH - Cambodia
CM - Cameroon
CA - Canada
CV - Cape Verde
KY - Cayman Islands
CF - Central African Republic
TD - Chad
CL - Chile
CN - China
CX - Christmas Islands
CC - Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CO - Colombia
KM - Comoras
CG - Congo Rep.
CK - Cook Islands
CR - Costa Rica
CI - Côte d'Ivoire
HR - Croatia (Hrvatska)
CU - Cuba
CY - Cyprus
CZ - Czech Republic

DK - Denmark
DJ - Djibouti
DM - Dominica
DO - Dominican Republic

TP - East Timor
EC - Ecuador
EG - Egypt
SV - El Salvador
GQ - Equatorial Guinea
ER - Eritrea
EE - Estonia
ET - Ethiopia

FK - Falkland Islands
FO - Faroe Islands
FJ - Fiji
FI - Finland
FR - France
FX - France Metropolitan
GF - French Guiana
PF - French Polynesia
TF - French Southern Territories

GA - Gabon
GM - Gambia
GE - Georgia
DE - Germany
GH - Ghana
GI - Gibraltar
GR - Greece
GL - Greenland
GD - Grenada
GP - Guadeloupe
GU - Guam
GT - Guatemala
GN - Guinea
GW - Guinea-Bissau
GY - Guyana

HT - Haiti
HM - Heard & McDonald Island
HN - Honduras
HK - Hong Kong
HU - Hungary

IS - Iceland
IN - India
ID - Indonesia
IR - Iran
IQ - Iraq
IE - Ireland
IL - Israel
IT - Italy

JM - Jamaica
JP - Japan
JO - Jordan

KZ - Kazakhstan
KE - Kenya
KI - Kiribati
KP - Korea (North), Dem. People's Rep Of
KR - Korea (South), Republic Of
KW - Kuwait
KG - Kyrgyzstan

LA - Laos
LV - Latvia
LB - Lebanon
LS - Lesotho
LR - Liberia
LY - Libya
LI - Liechtenstein
LT - Lithuania
LU - Luxembourg

MO - Macao
MK - Macedonia
MG - Madagascar
MW - Malawi
MY - Malaysia
MV - Maldives
ML - Mali
MT - Malta
MH - Marshall Islands
MQ - Martinique
MR - Mauritania
MU - Mauritius
YT - Mayotte
MX - Mexico
FM - Micronesia
MD - Moldava
MC - Monaco
MN - Mongolia
ME - Montenegro
MS - Montserrat
MA - Morocco
MZ - Mozambique
MM - Myanmar

NA - Namibia
NR - Nauru
NP - Nepal
AN - Netherlands Antilles
NL - Netherlands, The
NC - New Caledonia
NZ - New Zealand
NI - Nicaragua
NE - Niger
NG - Nigeria
NU - Niue
NF - Norfolk Island
MP - Northern Mariana Islands
NO - Norway

OM - Oman

PK - Pakistan
PW - Palau
PA - Panama
PG - Papua New Guinea
PY - Paraguay
PE - Peru
PH - Phillipines
PN - Pitcairn Islands
PL - Poland
PT - Portugal
PR - Puerto Rico

QA - Qatar

RE - Reunion
RO - Romania
RU - Russian Federation
RW - Rwanda

WS - Samoa
SM - San Marino
ST - São Tomé & Príncipe
SA - Saudi Arabia
SN - Senegal
SP - Serbia
SC - Seychelles
SL - Sierra Leone
SG - Singapore
SK - Slovakia
SI - Slovenia
SB - Solomon Islands
SO - Somalia
AS - Somoa, Gilbert, Ellice Islands
ZA - South Africa
GS - South Georgia & South S.S.
ES - Spain
LK - Sri Lanka
SH - St. Helena
KN - St. Kitts & Nevis
LC - St. Lucia
PM - St. Pierre & Miquelon
VC - St. Vincent & The Grenadines
SD - Sudan
SR - Suriname
SJ - Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands
SZ - Swaziland
SE - Sweden
CH - Switzerland
SY - Syria

TW - Taiwan
TJ - Tajikistan
TZ - Tanzania
TH - Thailand
TG - Togo
TK - Tokelau
TO - Tonga
TT - Trinidad & Tobago
TN - Tunisia
TR - Turkey
TM - Turkmenistan
TC - Turks & Calcos Islands
TV - Tuvalu

UG - Uganda
UA - Ukraine
AE - United Arab Emirates
GB - United Kingdom
US - United States
UM - United States Minor Outl. Islands
UY - Uruguay
UZ - Uzbekistan

VU - Vanuatu
VA - Vatican City State
VE - Venezuela
VN - Vietnam
VG - Virgin Islands (British)
VI - Virgin Islands (U.S.A.)

WF - Wallis & Futuna Islands
EH - Western Sahara

YE - Yemen

ZR - Zaire (CD - Congo Dem. Rep.)
ZM - Zambia
ZW - Zimbabwe

 

make it a sticky

 

nice post I'e printed that out for future reference.

 

What you need to bear in mind is that many of the country abbreviations are based on the name of the country, in the country's native language, not necessarily in English.

Hence Spain is [ES] from Espana and Germany is [DE] from Deutschland.

Thanks to the poster who posted the full list originally.

To those of you who repeatedly quoted the whole thing over & over again, double posted and slowchatted about it afterwards, I deleted those 5 posts.
DON'T do that sort of thing again please. You know who you are.

 

Here

country abbrevations thread

 

Great! You do realise that now I'm going to have to print this off and tick the ones I play.

Thanks GTP you've turned me into a trainspotter

 

I certainly get that. If you follow that logic though, wouldn't it make sense for Japan to be NP for Nippon?

BTW, thank you to the individual that posted the original list. That was really great.

 

That's very true.

Also by the same logic, United Kingdom shouldn't be GB, since technically Northern Ireland isn't part of Great Britain, and therefore Northern Ireland would need it's own country tag too. However, since Nicaragua already has NI, it would create incredible confusion, and so the United Kingdom (which does include Northern Ireland) gets the GB tag. (Although I'm not sure why UK isn't used instead? To avoid confusing it with Ukraine maybe? )

 

Why doesn't Emeryville get its own tag?!?

 

I have been waiting to see someone use the Country tag as part of there name, like Sh from Italy

 

HAH! I'd laugh so hard I think I'd crash.

 

hahaha....verry funny....NOT!!

sorry ,but 1st it is not funny when you are italian...2nd,you are laughing about your own jokes i think...


not funny dude...really!


spyrrari.

 

Uhhh no, just because someone has the same avatar as me doesn't mean I'm the same person posting... and if an Italian decided to make his/her name a tongue and cheek joke like that, I would laugh at it since it's his or her decision to do edit their name in such a fashion. It's a joke. I never said I'd do it.... and besides no one is saying Italy is full of fecal matter or that a play on a userID has any corrolation to what they think of Italy.

I'm sorry if that offended you but I'm not even the original poster of that 'idea' or whatever you want to call it.


Moving steadily along... does anyone find it funny that they apply the 'native tongue' rule for the abbreviation kind of willy nilly?

 

i did not post my post against you..........

still dont think its humorous though...

forget about it...


spyrrari.

 

I can certainly respect that, but yes, let's move on.

 

nice thanks for that

 

I narrowed down the list to only the countries in the account registration list.
It's very probable that you'll only find these country codes online.

AU - Australia
AT - Austria
BH - Bahrain
BE - Belgium
BG - Bulgaria
CA - Canada
HR - Croatia (Hrvatska)
CY - Cyprus
CZ - Czech Republic
DK - Denmark
FI - Finland
FR - France
DE - Germany
GR - Greece
HK - Hong Kong
HU - Hungary
IS - Iceland
IN - India
IE - Ireland
IL - Israel
IT - Italy
JP - Japan
KR - Korea (South), Republic Of
KW - Kuwait
LB - Lebanon
LU - Luxembourg
MT - Malta
NL - Netherlands, The
NZ - New Zealand
NO - Norway
OM - Oman
PL - Poland
PT - Portugal
QA - Qatar
RO - Romania
RU - Russian Federation
SA - Saudi Arabia
SG - Singapore
SK - Slovakia
SI - Slovenia
ZA - South Africa
ES - Spain
SE - Sweden
CH - Switzerland
TW - Taiwan
TR - Turkey
AE - United Arab Emirates
GB - United Kingdom
US - United States

 

I thought I would do it but coudn't use the countries I'd wanted..

DRIVEN_BY_[AI] (Anguilla)
THIS_IS_[BS] (Bahamas)
I_LIKE_[MR] (Mauritania)

Just for the laughs I thought doing also this... but I can assure you that this is not true:

I_AM_[BI] (Burundi)




Damn, reputation (whatever it was) lost forever.

edit: I know I'm sometimes very childish..

 

meh aren't here some small pacific island countries that he didn't name?

 

Thanks mate, I was just thinking about that too.

 

DustDriver: Great!

And to the quoters; I'd love to see an edit, it sucks scrolling trough the full list 3 times.

 

As you wish sir...

 

Northern ireland is counted as a part of the united kingdom thanks very much we aint to free staters over here.

 

opelgt1969 ,thanks,I've seen some of these and wondered,where they were from. Printing off a copy now. Again, thanks

 

He was referring to Northern Ireland not being part of Great Britain, which is true.
There is a difference between "Great Britain" and the "United Kingdom" you know.

 

Nope, I dont think its weird at all... You cant expect the whole world to speak English and use english... they're entitled to use their own language.... So I dont find it funny at all...

I imagine that these are worldwide abbreviations which everyone uses in some way.... Or am I wrong in that respect?

 

They're actually ISO codes. So yes they are used worldwide.
ISO = International Organization for Standardization.

AMG.