Country Codes Lookup (ISO, Currency, Dialling)

About the Country Codes Lookup (ISO, Currency, Dialling)

Every country and territory with an ISO 3166-1 code, 250 in all, in one searchable table: the alpha-2 code (IN), the alpha-3 code (IND), the numeric code (356), the calling code (+91), the ISO 4217 currency with its symbol, the internet country domain (.in), the capital and the official languages with their ISO 639 codes, plus the UN M49 region and UN or EU membership.

Type anything you have (a name, any of the codes, +44, .uk, EUR, a capital or a language) and the matching countries come first. Open a country for every detail with copy buttons, or download the list you see as CSV or JSON for a database, a form or a spreadsheet. The data is built from the published standards and registries named below and is searched in your browser.

Common uses

• Developers building country menus, address forms, phone-number fields and currency settings, or checking codes in a database.
• Analysts joining data sets that use different codes (alpha-2 in one, alpha-3 or UN M49 numeric in another).
• Shipping, customs and finance work that needs the right ISO code and currency for a destination.
• Travellers checking the currency, calling code and capital of a country before a trip.

What each code is

• Alpha-2 (ISO 3166-1): two letters, the most common code. Country-code internet domains are based on it, and so are many forms, flags and APIs.
• Alpha-3 (ISO 3166-1): three letters that are easier to read (DEU, ESP, CHE). It is used, for example, in the machine-readable zone of passports.
• Numeric (ISO 3166-1): three digits taken from the UN Statistics Division’s M49 standard. They do not depend on an alphabet, which is why statistics offices and payment-card systems use them.
• Calling code (ITU-T E.164): dialled after the international prefix. One code can serve several countries: +1 is the North American Numbering Plan, where the area code picks the country (+1 876 is Jamaica), and +7 is shared by Russia and Kazakhstan.
• Currency (ISO 4217): a three-letter code and a three-digit number, with the number of decimals the currency uses (JPY 0, INR 2, KWD 3).
• Internet domain: the country-code top-level domain delegated in the root zone, usually the alpha-2 code in lower case.

Codes that surprise people

• The United Kingdom is GB and GBR. UK is only reserved in ISO 3166-1 for the United Kingdom’s use, but the country’s domain is .uk; .gb exists but is not used.
• XK for Kosovo is not an ISO 3166-1 code: it is a user-assigned code that the European Union, the IMF and Unicode CLDR use.
• Some territories share their country’s calling code (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man use +44; Åland uses +358), and a few uninhabited ones have none.
• Some codes have no domain in use: .bv and .sj were never opened for registrations, and Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Western Sahara, the Caribbean Netherlands and the US Minor Outlying Islands have none delegated (search .bl, for example, to find the place and its note).
• Several countries have more than one capital (South Africa, Bolivia, Sri Lanka) or a seat of government elsewhere (the Netherlands, Benin, Malaysia); the notes in each country’s details say which is which.

Sources

Codes, regions, languages and currencies come from Unicode CLDR (Unicode License), which follows ISO 3166 and the UN M49 standard; currency numbers and decimals from the ISO 4217 list published by SIX; calling codes from Google’s libphonenumber data, as assigned in ITU-T E.164; domains from the IANA root zone database; and capitals from the MIT-licensed annexare/Countries list, corrected where a country has several capitals or none. Official languages follow CLDR, except where a constitution says otherwise (South Africa, Switzerland, Montenegro, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Nigeria, Israel and Rwanda).

Limitations

• The list follows ISO 3166-1, which covers countries and territories alike; including a place, or naming it, is not a statement about its status.
• “Official languages” are those with official or de facto official status nationally; many countries have more in some regions, shown separately when CLDR lists them.
• Calling codes are the country codes only. To work out the full number to dial from one country to another, use the International Calling Codes tool.
• Currency symbols are written as in the country’s main language; the same currency may be written differently elsewhere.

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