ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 is used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports.
For current codes see: 3166-1
Reserved Code Elements list
The following alpha-3 codes are user-assigned: AAA, QMA-QZZ, XAA-XZZ, and ZZZ.
The following alpha-3 codes are subject to a transitional reservation:
- BUR - Burma, now Myanmar
- BYS - Byelorussian SSR, now Belarus
- CSK - Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic and Slovakia
- NTZ - Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone
- ZAR - Zaire
The following three letter codes are subject to an indeterminate reservation, having been notified to the United Nations Secretary-General under the 1949 and/or 1968 Road Transport Conventions:
- ADN - Aden
- BDS - Barbados
- BRU - Brunei
- CDN - Canada
- EAK - Kenya
- EAT - Tanganyika
- EAU - Uganda
- EAZ - Zanzibar
- GBA - Alderney
- GBG - Guernsey
- GBJ - Jersey
- GBM - Isle of Man
- GBZ - Gibraltar
- GCA - Guatemala
- HKJ - Jordan
- MAL - Malaysia
- RCA - Central African Republic
- RCB - People's Republic of Congo
- RCH - Chile
- RMM - Mali
- RNR - Zambia
- ROK - South Korea
- ROU - Uruguay
- RSR - Southern Rhodesia
- RSM - San Marino
- SLO - Slovenia
- SME - Suriname
- TMN - Turkmenistan
- WAG - Gambia
- WAL - Sierra Leone
- ZRE - Zaire
The following alpha-3 code elements are subject to an exceptional reservation:
- ASC - Ascension Island - reserved for UPU, also used by ITU
- CPT - Clipperton Island - reserved for ITU
- DGA - Diego Garcia - reserved for ITU
- FXX - Metropolitan France - reserved on behalf of France
- GGY - Guernsey - reserved for UPU
- IMN - Isle of Man - reserved for UPU
- JEY - Jersey - reserved for UPU
- TAA - Tristan da Cunha - reserved for UPU
For the time being, ISO 3166 MA has agreed not to use the following codes, taken from ISO/IEC 7501-1 (Machine readable travel documents), as alpha-3 country codes:
- GBD - British Dependent Territories Citizen
- GBN - British National (Overseas)
- GBO - British Overseas Citizen
- GBP - British Protected Person
- GBS - British Subject
- UNO - United Nations Official
- UNA - United Nations Specialized Agency Official
- UNK - Kosovo resident, issued travel document by UNMIK