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Country Codes


This appendix provides the country codes you use when creating your hierarchical certificate ID files. Country codes are optional, but recommended for noninternational firms. Using country codes helps to ensure that your mail addresses are unique worldwide. Having unique certificate names is important when you want to communicate with external organizations. A full hierarchical name using a country code looks like this:


CN=Andrew Dahl\OU=Consulting\O=L3Comm\C=US



CodeCountryCodeCountry
AD AndorraAE United Arab Emirates
AF AfghanistanAG Antigua and Barbuda
AI Anguilla AL Albania
AN Netherlands Antilles AO Angola
AQ Antarctica AR Argentina
AS American Samoa AT Austria
AU Australia AW Aruba
BB Barbados BD Bangladesh
BE Belgium BF Burkina Faso
BG Bulgaria BH Bahrain
BI Burundi BJ Benin
BM Bermuda BN Brunei Darussalam
BO Bolivia BR Brazil
BS Bahamas BT Bhutan
BU Burma BV Bouvet Island
BW Botswana BY Byelorussian SSR
BZ Belize CA Canada
CC Cocoa (Keeling) Islands CF Central African Republic
CG Congo CH Switzerland
CI Cote d'Ivoire CK Cook Islands
CL Chile CM Cameroon
CN China CO Colombia
CR Costa Rica CS Czechoslovakia
CU Cuba CV Cape Verde
CX Christmas Island CY Cyprus
DD German Democratic Republic DE Germany, Federal Republic of
DJ Djibouti DK Denmark
DM Dominica DO Dominican Republic
DZ Algeria EC Ecuador
EG Egypt EH Western Sahara
ES Spain ET Ethiopia
FI Finland FJ Fiji
FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) FM Micronesia
FO Faroe Islands FR France
GA Gabon GB United Kingdom
GD Grenada GF French Guiana
GH Ghana GI Gibraltar
GL Greenland GM Gambia
GN Guinea GP Guadeloupe
GQ Equatorial Guinea GR Greece
GT Guatemala GU Guam
GW Guinea­Bissau GY Guyana
H Hong Kong HM Heard and McDonald Islands
HN Honduras HT Haiti
HU Hungary ID Indonesia
IE Ireland IL Israel
IN India IO British Indian Ocean Territory
IQ Iraq IR Iran (Islamic Republic of)
IS Iceland IT Italy
JM Jamaica JO Jordan
JP Japan KE Kenya
KH Kampuchea, Democratic KI Kiribati
KM Comoros KN Saint Kitts and Nevis
KP Korea, Dem. People's Rep. ofNT Neutral Zone
KR Korea, Republic of KW Kuwait
KY Cayman Islands LA Lao People's Dem. Republic
LB Lebanon LC Saint Lucia
LI Liechtenstein LK Sri Lanka
LR Liberia LS Lesotho
LU Luxembourg LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
MA Morocco MC Monaco
MG Madagascar MH Marshall Islands
ML Mali MN Mongolia
MO Macau MP Northern Mariana Islands
MQ Martinique MR Mauritania
MS Montserrat MT Malta
MU Mauritius MV Maldives
MW Malawi MX Mexico
MY Malaysia MZ Mozambique
NA Namibia NC New Caledonia
NE Niger NF Norfolk Island
NG Nigeria NI Nicaragua
NL Netherlands NO Norway
NP Nepal NR Nauru
NU Niue NZ New Zealand
OM Oman PP Panama
PE Peru PF French Polynesia
PG Papua New Guinea PH Philippines
PK Pakistan PL Poland
PM St. Pierre and Miquelon PN Pitcairn
PR Puerto Rico PT Portugal
PW Palau PY Paraguay
QA Qatar RE Réunion
RO Romania RW Rwanda
SA Saudi Arabia SB Solomon Islands
SC Seychelles SD Sudan
SE Sweden SG Singapore
SH St. Helena SJ Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
SL Sierra Leone SM San Marino
SN Senegal SO Somalia
SR Suriname ST Sao Tome and Principe
SU USSR SV El Salvador
SY Syrian Arab Republic SZ Swaziland
TC Turks and Caicos Islands TD Chad
TF French Southern Territories TG Togo
TH Thailand TK Tokelau
TN Tunisia TO Tona
TP East Timor TR Turkey
TT Trinidad and Tobago TV Tuvalu
TW Taiwan, Province of China TZ Tanzania, United Rep. of
UA Ukrainian SSR UG Uganda
UM United States Minor Outlying Islands US United States
UY Uruguay VA Vatican City State (Holy See)
VC Saint Vincent & the Grenadines VE Venezuela
VG Virgin Islands (British) VI Virgin Islands (U.S.)
VN Vietnam VU Vanuatu
WF Wallis and Futuna Islands WS Samoa
YD Yemen, Democratic YE Yemen
YU Yugoslavia ZA South Africa
ZM Zambia ZR Zaire
ZW Zimbabwe

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