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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent areas. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard. They are used in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports.

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Current codes

The country names are English short country names officially used by the ISO.

1Serbia and Montenegro no longer exists as a country. The ISO has yet to release the official codes for the successor states Montenegro and Serbia.

Reserved code elements

User-assigned codes

The following alpha-3 codes are user-assigned: AAA, QMA-QZZ, XAA-XZZ, and ZZZ.

Transitional reservations

The following alpha-3 codes are subject to a transitional reservation:

Indeterminate reservations

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:

Exceptional reservations

The following alpha-3 code elements are subject to an exceptional reservation: The following three codes were also under exceptional reservation, until the update from 2006-03-29 included them in the standard:

Codes currently agreed not to use

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:

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