List of NATO country codes

See also: Membership of NATO

This is the list of NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated February 19, 2004, and effective April 1, 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal with the imaginary countries used for exercise purposes, and designate large geographical groupings and water bodies (ranging from oceans to rivers). It consists of two-letter codes for geographical entities, four-letter codes for subdivisions, and lists the ISO three-letter codes for reference. The digrams match the FIPS 10-4 codes with a few exceptions.

The ninth edition's ratification draft was published on July 6, 2005, with a reply deadline of October 6, 2005. It replaces all two- and four-letter codes with ISO or ISO-like three- and six-letter codes. It is intended as a transitional standard: once all NATO nations have updated their information systems, a tenth edition will be published.

For diplomatic reasons, North Macedonia was designated as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and received a temporary code explicitly different from the ISO one, which was 3166 MKD. Since its name change following the Prespa agreement with Greece, the country is identified with the MK digram and the MKD trigram,^[1] but on car license plates, they must be changed to NM or NMK.^[2]

The Republic of Palau is also often indicated (at least in the United States) as PW.

Digram	Trigram	Entity	Comment
AA	ABW	Aruba
AB	ABB	Asia	9th ed. adds the trigram, not in ISO 3166-1
AC	ATG	Antigua and Barbuda
AF	AFG	Afghanistan
AG	DZA	Algeria
AJ	AZE	Azerbaijan
SS	SSD	South Sudan^[3]
AL	ALB	Albania
AM	ARM	Armenia
AN	AND	Andorra
AO	AGO	Angola
AR	ARG	Argentina
AS	AUS	Australia
AT	ACI	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	Appears with 9th ed.; the entity is omitted from 8th ed., not in ISO 3166-1
AU	AUT	Austria
AV	AIA	Anguilla
AY	ATA	Antarctica
BA	BHR	Bahrain
BB	BRB	Barbados
BC	BWA	Botswana
BM	BMU	Bermuda
BE	BEL	Belgium
BF	BHS	The Bahamas
BD	BGD	Bangladesh
BH	BLZ	Belize
BK	BIH	Bosnia-Herzegovina
BL	BOL	Bolivia
MM	MMR	Myanmar
BN	BEN	Benin
BO	BLR	Belarus
BP	SLB	Solomon Islands
BR	BRA	Brazil
BT	BTN	Bhutan
BG	BGR	Bulgaria
BV	BVT	Bouvet Island
BX	BRN	Brunei
BY	BDI	Burundi
CA	CAN	Canada
CB	KHM	Cambodia
CD	TCD	Chad
CE	LKA	Sri Lanka
CF	COG	Republic of the Congo
CD	COD	Democratic Republic of the Congo
CH	CHN	People's Republic of China
CI	CHL	Chile
CJ	CYM	Cayman Islands
CK	CCK	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CM	CMR	Cameroon
CN	COM	Comoros
CO	COL	Colombia
CQ	MNP	Northern Mariana Islands	Also listed under the subdivision code US-MP-
CR	CSI	Coral Sea Islands	Appears with 9th ed.; the entity is omitted from 8th ed., not in ISO 3166-1
CS	CRI	Costa Rica
CT	CAF	Central African Republic
CU	CUB	Cuba
CV	CPV	Cape Verde
CW	COK	Cook Islands
CY	CYP	Cyprus
CZ	CZE	Czech Republic
DA	DNK	Denmark
DJ	DJI	Djibouti
DO	DMA	Dominica
DR	DOM	Dominican Republic
EC	ECU	Ecuador
EE	EEE	Europe	9th ed. adds the trigram, not in ISO 3166-1
EG	EGY	Egypt
EI	IRL	Ireland
EK	GNQ	Equatorial Guinea
EN	EST	Estonia
ER	ERI	Eritrea
ES	ESP	Spain
ET	ETH	Ethiopia
FF	FFF	Africa	9th ed. adds the trigram, not in ISO 3166-1
FG	GUF	French Guiana	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-973
FI	FIN	Finland
FJ	FJI	Fiji
FK	FLK	Falkland Islands
FM	FSM	Federated States of Micronesia
FO	FRO	Faroe Islands
FP	PYF	French Polynesia	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-PYF
FR	FRA	France
FS	ATF	French Southern Territories	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-FST
GM	GMB	The Gambia	8th ed. STANAG 1049 revised from GA (now: Gabon)
GA	GAB	Gabon	8th ed. STANAG 1049 revised from GB (now: United Kingdom)
GC	n/a	East Germany	Obsolete 1990
GE	DEU	Germany
GG	GEO	Georgia
GH	GHA	Ghana
GI	GIB	Gibraltar
GJ	GRD	Grenada
GL	GRL	Greenland
GP	GLP	Guadeloupe	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-971
GQ	GUM	Guam	Also listed under the subdivision code US-GU-
GR	GRC	Greece
GT	GTM	Guatemala
GV	GIN	Guinea
GY	GUY	Guyana
HA	HTI	Haiti
HK	HKG	Hong Kong	Also listed under the provincial code CN-91-
HM	HMD	Heard and McDonald Islands
HO	HND	Honduras
HQ	HQI	Howland Island	Appears with 9th ed.; also listed under IQ, not in ISO 3166-1
HR	HRV	Croatia
HU	HUN	Hungary
IC	ISL	Iceland
ID	IDN	Indonesia
IN	IND	India
IO	IOT	British Indian Ocean Territory
IQ	UMI	U.S. Minor Outlying Islands	Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Johnston, Kingman Reef, Midway, Navassa, Palmyra, and Wake Islands Also listed under the subdivision code US-UM-
IR	IRN	Iran
IS	ISR	Israel
IT	ITA	Italy
IV	CIV	Côte d'Ivoire
IZ	IRQ	Iraq
JA	JPN	Japan
JM	JAM	Jamaica
JN	JNM	Jan Mayen Island	Appears with 9th ed.; also listed under SV/SJM; Also listed under the subdivision code NO-22-
JO	JOR	Jordan
JQ	JQA	Johnston Atoll	Appears with 9th ed.; also listed under IQ, not in ISO 3166-1
KE	KEN	Kenya
KG	KGZ	Kyrgyzstan
KN	PRK	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
KR	KIR	Kiribati
KS	KOR	Republic of Korea
KT	CXR	Christmas Island
KU	KWT	Kuwait
KZ	KAZ	Kazakhstan
LA	LAO	Laos
LE	LBN	Lebanon
LG	LVA	Latvia
LH	LTU	Lithuania
LI	LBR	Liberia
LO	SVK	Slovakia
LS	LIE	Liechtenstein
LT	LSO	Lesotho
LU	LUX	Luxembourg
LY	LBY	Libya
MA	MDG	Madagascar
MB	MTQ	Martinique	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-972
MC	MAC	Macau
MD	MDA	Republic of Moldova
ME	MNE	Montenegro	Since 8th ed.
MG	MNG	Mongolia
MH	MSR	Montserrat
MI	MWI	Malawi
MK	MKD	North Macedonia	While the country had the provisional name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the digram was FY and the trigram, FYR.
ML	MLI	Mali	MLI in ISO 3166-1
MN	MCO	Monaco
MO	MAR	Morocco
MP	MUS	Mauritius
MR	MRT	Mauritania
MT	MLT	Malta
MU	OMN	Oman
MV	MDV	The Maldives
MX	MEX	Mexico
MY	MYS	Malaysia
MZ	MOZ	Mozambique
NA	ANT	Netherlands Antilles	removed from ISO 3166-1
NC	NCL	New Caledonia	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-NCL
NU	NIU	Niue
NF	NFK	Norfolk Island
NE	NER	Niger
NH	VUT	Vanuatu
NG	NGA	Nigeria
NL	NLD	Netherlands
NN	NNN	North America	9th ed. adds the trigram, not in ISO 3166-1
NO	NOR	Norway
NP	NPL	Nepal
NR	NRU	Nauru
NS	SUR	Suriname
NT	NTT	NATO countries	9th ed. adds the trigram, not in ISO 3166-1
NU	NIC	Nicaragua
NZ	NZL	New Zealand
PA	PRY	Paraguay
PN	PCN	Pitcairn Islands
PE	PER	Peru
PF	PFI	Paracel Islands	Appears with 9th ed.; the entity is omitted from 8th ed., not in ISO 3166-1
PK	PAK	Pakistan
PL	POL	Poland
PM	PAN	Panama
PT	PRT	Portugal
PP	PNG	Papua New Guinea
PS	PLW	Palau	In 9th ed., the digram is also assigned to Palestine
PS	PSE	Palestinian Territory	Temporary code; 8th ed. has no digram for Palestine 9th ed. also assigns PS to Palau
PU	GNB	Guinea-Bissau
QA	QAT	Qatar
RE	REU	Réunion	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-974
RM	MHL	Marshall Islands	8th ed. omits the trigram (mistakenly?)
RO	ROU	Romania
RP	PHL	Philippines
RQ	PRI	Puerto Rico	Also listed under the subdivision code US-PR-
RS	SRB	Serbia	8th ed.
RU	RUS	Russia	Original code RS is not to be used 8th ed. Now assigned to Serbia.
RW	RWA	Rwanda
SA	SAU	Saudi Arabia
SB	SPM	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-975 and assigns SB to "Serbia and Montenegro"
SC	KNA	Saint Kitts and Nevis
SE	SYC	Seychelles
SF	ZAF	South Africa
SG	SEN	Senegal
SH	SHN	Saint Helena
SI	SVN	Slovenia
SJ	SJM	Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands	Also listed under the subdivision code NO-21-
SL	SLE	Sierra Leone
SM	SMR	San Marino
SN	SGP	Singapore
SO	SOM	Somalia
SR	SRR	South America	9th ed. adds the trigram, not in ISO 3166-1
SS	ASM	American Samoa	Also listed under the subdivision code US-AS-
SS	WSM	Samoa	Some sources (other than the STANAGs themselves) claim the digram was WS
ST	LCA	Saint Lucia
SU	SDN	Sudan
SV	SLV	El Salvador
SW	SWE	Sweden
SX	SGS	South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
SY	SYR	Syria
SZ	CHE	Switzerland
TC	ARE	United Arab Emirates
TD	TTO	Trinidad and Tobago
TH	THA	Thailand
TI	TJK	Tajikistan
TK	TCA	Turks and Caicos Islands
TK	TKL	Tokelau
TL	TLS	Timor-Leste
TN	TON	Tonga
TO	TGO	Togo
TP	STP	São Tomé and Príncipe
TS	TUN	Tunisia
TU	TUR	Turkey
TV	TUV	Tuvalu
TW	TWN	Republic of China (Taiwan)	Also listed under the provincial code CN-71-
TX	TKM	Turkmenistan
TZ	TZA	Tanzania
UG	UGA	Uganda
GB	GBR	United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland)	8th ed. STANAG 1059 removed UK
UA	UKR	Ukraine
UR	n/a	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Obsolete 1992
US	USA	United States
UU	UUU	Oceania	9th ed. adds the trigram, not in ISO 3166-1
UV	BFA	Burkina Faso
UY	URY	Uruguay
UZ	UZB	Uzbekistan
VC	VCT	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
VE	VEN	Venezuela
VI	VIR	U.S. Virgin Islands	8th ed. lists "VI or VS"; Also listed under the subdivision code US-VI-
VN	VNM	Vietnam
VS	VGB	British Virgin Islands	8th ed. lists "VI or VS"
VT	VAT	Vatican City (Holy See)
WA	NAM	Namibia
WF	WLF	Wallis and Futuna Islands	9th ed. lists it under France as FR-WLF
WI	ESH	Western Sahara
WZ	SWZ	Swaziland
XB	XXB	"Brownland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XE	XXE	SHAPE (ACO Command)	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XG	XXG	"Greyland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XI	XXI	"Indigoland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XL	XXL	"Limeland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XM	XXM	NATO	^[4] private use in ISO 3166-1
XN	XXN	NATO "Blue" Command	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XP	XXP	"Purpleland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XR	XXR	"Redland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XS	XXS	SACLANT (HQ SACT Command)	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XW	XXW	"Whiteland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
XY	XXY	"Yellowland"	9th ed. adds the trigram, private use in ISO 3166-1
YE	YEM	Yemen
YO	n/a	Yugoslavia	Obsolete 1993
YT	-	Mayotte	Former NATO code ME is not to be used since 8th ed.; 8th ed. omits the trigram (mistakenly?); 9th ed. lists it under France as FR-976
—	SCG	Serbia and Montenegro	9th ed. lists SB for the digram, which 8th ed. assigns to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, removed from ISO 3166-1
YU	YUG	Yugoslavia (Federal Republic of)
ZA	ZMB	Zambia
ZI	ZWE	Zimbabwe

Water Bodies (9th edition)
Trigram	Digram	Entity	Comment
1A-	1A	North Atlantic Ocean
1B-	1B	Bay of Biscay
1C-	1C	Bristol Channel
1D-	1D	Denmark Strait
1E-	1E	English Channel
1F-	1F	Bay of Fundy
1G-	1G	Gulf of Guinea
1H-	1H	Hudson Bay
1I-	1I	Lake Volta
1J-	1J	Panama Canal
1K-	1K	Inner Seas	Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, a.k.a. Inner Scottish Sea,^[5] including the Minch, the Sea of the Hebrides, and stretching to Ireland
1L-	1L	Labrador Sea
1M-	1M	Gulf of Mexico
1N-	1N	North Sea
1O-	1O	Niger River
1P-	1P	Baffin Bay
1Q-	1Q	St. George's Channel
1R-	1R	Irish Sea
1S-	1S	Skagerrak
1T-	1T	Gulf of St. Lawrence
1U-	1U	Hudson Strait
1V-	1V	Davis Strait
1W-	1W	Magdalena River
1X-	1X	Caribbean Sea
1Y-	1Y	Gulf of Cadiz
1Z-	1Z	Cantabrian Sea
2A-	2A	South Atlantic Ocean
2B-	2B	Amazon River
2C-	2C	Congo River
2D-	2D	Drake Passage
2E-	2E	Gulf of Campecha	Gulf of Campeche (typo)
2F-	2F	Gulf of Fonseca
2G-	2G	Lake Granada	Lake Nicaragua
2H-	2H	Gulf of Honduras
2I-	2I	Río de la Plata Bay
2J-	2J	Gulf of San Gorge	Golfo San Jorge (typo)
2K-	2K	Sargasso Sea
2L-	2L	Magellan Strait
2M-	2M	Gulf of San Matias	San Matias Gulf
2P-	2P	Putymayo River	Putumayo River (typo)
2Q-	2Q	Orinoco River
2R-	2R	Río de la Plata
2S-	2S	Scotia Sea
2W-	2W	Weddell Sea
2X-	2X	La Pérouse Strait
2Y-	2Y	Salomon Sea	Solomon Sea (typo)
2Z-	2Z	Yucátan Sea
31-	31	Tonle Sap
32-	32	Song Hua Giang	Bassac (Hua Giang) River
33-	33	Chhâk Kâmpóng Saôm	Kompong Som Bay, Cambodia †
34-	34	Chhâk Veal Renh	Veal Renh Bay, Cambodia †
35-	35	Chhâk Kaôh Kŏng	Kaôh Kŏng Bay, Cambodia
36-	36	Huang Pu (Yellow River)
37-	37	Yangtze River
38-	38	Hang Chou Wan	Kwang-Chou-Wan
39-	39	Sunda Strait
3A-	3A	North Pacific
3B-	3B	Sakhalinskiy Zaliv	Sakhalin Gulf/Bay/Bight
3C-	3C	Celebes Sea
3D-	3D	Tatar Strait
3E-	3E	East China Sea
3F-	3F	Formosa Strait
3G-	3G	Gulf of Tonkin
3H-	3H	Halmahera Sea
3I-	3I	Luzon Strait
3J-	3J	Sea of Japan
3K-	3K	Zaliv Shelikhova	Shelikhova Gulf
3L-	3L	Gulf of California
3M-	3M	Molucca Sea
3N-	3N	Inland Sea
3O-	3O	Amur River
3P-	3P	Philippine Sea
3Q-	3Q	Sea of Okhotsk
3R-	3R	Korea Bay
3S-	3S	Sulu Sea
3T-	3T	Gulf of Thailand
3U-	3U	South China Sea
3V-	3V	Teluk Tomini	Gulf of Tomini
3W-	3W	Mekong River
3X-	3X	Bo Hai
3Y-	3Y	Yellow Sea
3Z-	3Z	Singapore Strait
4A-	4A	South Pacific Ocean
4B-	4B	Banda Sea
4C-	4C	Coral Sea
4D-	4D	Amundsen Sea
4E-	4E	Teluk Bone	Gulf of Bone/Boni
4F-	4F	Flores Sea
4G-	4G	Bellingshausen Sea
4I-	4I	Lake Titicaca
4J-	4J	Java Sea
4K-	4K	Bismarck Sea
4L-	4L	Bali Sea
4M-	4M	Makassar Strait
4N-	4N	Napo River
4O-	4O	Pacific Ocean
4P-	4P	Gulf of Carpentaria
4Q-	4Q	Ceram Sea
4R-	4R	Ross Sea
4S-	4S	Solomon Sea
4T-	4T	Tasman Sea
4U-	4U	Arafura Sea
4Z-	4Z	Antarctic Ocean
5A-	5A	Arctic Ocean
5B-	5B	Barents Sea
5C-	5C	Chukshi Sea	Chukchi Sea
5D-	5D	Bering Sea
5E-	5E	Alaska/BC Coastal Waters
5F-	5F	Gulf of Alaska
5G-	5G	Greenland Sea
5K-	5K	Kara Sea
5L-	5L	Lincoln Sea
5N-	5N	Norwegian Sea
5P-	5P	Laptev Sea
5R-	5R	Bering Strait
5S-	5S	East Siberian Sea
5T-	5T	Northwest Passage
5U-	5U	Beaufort Sea
5W-	5W	White Sea
5Y-	5Y	Anadyrskiy Zaliv	Anadyrskiy Gulf
62-	62	Strait of Hormuz
6A-	6A	Indian Ocean
6B-	6B	Bay of Bengal
6C-	6C	Strait of Malacca
6D-	6D	Gulf of Aden
6E-	6E	Red Sea
6F-	6F	Bass Strait
6G-	6G	Great Australian Bight
6H-	6H	Gulf of Mannar
6I-	6I	Lake Malawi
6J-	6J	Ussuri River
6K-	6K	Zambezi River
6L-	6L	Laccadive Sea
6M-	6M	Gulf of Oman
6N-	6N	Andaman Sea
6O-	6O	Limpopo River
6P-	6P	Persian Gulf
6Q-	6Q	Gulf of Aqaba
6R-	6R	Arabian Sea
6S-	6S	Savu Sea
6T-	6T	Timor Sea
6U-	6U	Suez Canal
6V-	6V	Lake Victoria
6W-	6W	Gulf of Suez
6X-	6X	Lake Nyasa
6Y-	6Y	Lake Tanganyika
6Z-	6Z	Mozambique Channel
7B-	7B	Baltic Sea
7E-	7E	German Bight
7F-	7F	Gulf of Finland
7G-	7G	Gdansk Bay
7H-	7H	Gulf of Riga
7K-	7K	Kattegat
7L-	7L	Leba River
7M-	7M	Baltic Approaches
7P-	7P	Pomeranian Bay
7T-	7T	Gulf of Bothnia
81-	81	Gulf of Sirte
82-	82	Naama Bay	Sharm el-Sheikh's Naama Bay??
83-	83	Gulf of Hammamet
84-	84	Gulf of Sollum	Khalîg el Salûm
89-	89	Mediterranean Sea
8A-	8A	Danube River
8B-	8B	Black Sea
8C-	8C	Caspian Sea
8D-	8D	Adriatic Sea
8E-	8E	Mediterranean, Eastern
8F-	8F	Durrës Bay	Bay of Durrës, Albania
8G-	8G	Agean Sea	Aegean Sea (typo)
8H-	8H	Mediterranean, Central
8I-	8I	Lake Tiberias
8J-	8J	Balearic Sea
8K-	8K	Kotor Bay
8L-	8L	Ligurian Sea
8M-	8M	Sea of Marmara
8N-	8N	Ionian Sea
8O-	8O	Lake Ohrid
8P-	8P	Istanbul Strait	Bosphorus
8Q-	8Q	Lake Scutari
8R-	8R	Aral Sea
8S-	8S	Strait of Gibraltar
8T-	8T	Tyrrhenian Sea
8U-	8U	Çanakkale Strait	Dardanelles
8V-	8V	Vlorë Bay	Bay of Vlorë, Albania
8W-	8W	Mediterranean, Western
8X-	8X	Gulf of Lion
8Y-	8Y	Alboran Sea
8Z-	8Z	Sea of Azov
9A-	9A	Atlantic Ocean
9E-	9E	Lake Erie
9H-	9H	Lake Huron
9L-	9L	St. Lawrence Seaway
9M-	9M	Lake Michigan
9N-	9N	Lake Ontario
9S-	9S	Lake Superior
9W-	9W	Lake Winnipeg
9Z-	9Z	Great Lakes
IW-	IW	International Waters

Sources

• NATO STANAG 1059 INT (Ed. 7, 2000) Distinguishing Letters for Geographical Entities for Use in NATO
• NATO STANAG 1059 INT (Ed. 8, 2003) Letter Codes for Geographical Entities
• NATO STANAG 1059 INT (Ed. 9 Ratification Draft, 2005) Codes for Geographical Entities
• ISO Online Browsing Platform

References

1. "European Commission > North Macedonia". European Commission. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
2. ""North Macedonia" Vote Not All About Country Name". Polgeonow. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
3. "ISO country code for South Sudan". ISO. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
4. NATO Standardization Agency (NSA), Report of the Technical Panel to the Asset Tracking Interservice Working Group (ASTWG), 12 July 2007
5. (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

External links

• History of NATO – the Atlantic Alliance – UK Government site
• – integrates NATO STANAG 1059 codes with ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 codes
• NATO Allied Committee 135 – The Group of National Directors on Codification, NATO Codification System (NCS) Country Codes List
• ISO Online Browsing Platform (OBP), [1]