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Last-modified: 1992/11/3

ISO3166 Names
Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond
email: <ocl@ic.ac.uk>
Release: 92.11.1

Release Note: Corrected a number of inaccuracies and added many
              more country codes to the ISO3166 list.
              Included data for more countries than in the previous
              release. From now-on the distribution of this FAQ
              will take place on a monthly basis.

      Every now-and-then there are enquiries on the net regarding
email to a distant country. The question is often of the type
"has that country got email access ?". The following table is a
guide of top-level country names, showing the countries which have
access to internet or general email services. The top-level country
codes have been derived from the International Standards Organisation
recommendation ISO3166, except for United Kingdom which should be
called Great Britain (GB) instead of UK. The field GB is used for
the X.400 addressing of United Kingdom sites.

NOTES:

1. Description of codes:

- FI stands for FULL INTERNET access. This includes 'telnet', 'ftp',
and internet email.
- B stands for BITNET access although the address may be in internet
DNS (Domain Name System) format. 
- * (Asterisk) means that the country is reachable by email. If this is
not preceded by FI or B, it means that the connection may be a UUCP
connection. An asterisk is included after FI or B for continuity.

2. Networks which are not included:

Networks such as MILNET (U.S. Army) have computers all around the
world. It is generally possible to assume that wherever there is
a U.S. base, there will be a node reachable through gateways.

Private company networks such as for DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.),
or Sun Microsystems, for example, have nodes in many exotic locations.
However the connection may take place via UUCP and cost a lot of money.
Those networks have therefore not been included. In addition, those
are PRIVATE networks.

Many companies (like U.S. Sprint or Compuserve) offer commercial 
services to many countries which are not readily available on 
the Internet. The service is VERY COSTLY, usually takes place via
UUCP or X.400 connections.
Those types of network have not been included because email and
network access from Internet is barred for financial reasons. Although
a user may RECEIVE email from a user on those networks, one cannot
reply to it.

Some hobbyists have put together networks using their PCs which store
and forward email to remote locations. This is the case of FIDONET
users. Some FIDO nodes apparently exist throughout Africa, the Middle-
East, etc. Those have not been included since the forwarding of email 
is to the discretion of the SYSADMINS of the forwarding systems and,
once again, it costs money.

3. Updates

    The situation changes from day to day. The growth in international
networking is such that the information contained in this document
may be out of date by the time it reaches you.
If you have any update (ie: knowledge that a new country is connected),
please send a message to <ocl@ic.ac.uk>, including an example address
from the country reached so that it can be verified.

4. .US sites

    While there are several hundreds of BITNET nodes in USA, none have
a name in the format `.US'. That's why the .us domain is only FI and *.

5. .edu, .com, etc.

    The domains in this section are special in that some of them are
used in more than one country. The domains which have full internet 
access are marked accordingly. However, this doesn't mean that *all*
of  those  domains  have  full  internet  access.   For   example,
only a small proportion of .mil sites have full internet access. The
same is true for .com sites, for example.  


ISO3166 Names

Domain    Country             Connection         Notes
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AD        Andorra
AE        United Arab Emirates
AF        Afghanistan
AG        Antigua and Barbuda         *
AI        Anguilla
AL        Albania
AM        Armenia                                Ex-USSR
AN        Netherland Antilles 
AO        Angola
AQ        Antartica              FI   *
AR        Argentina              FI B *
AS        American Samoa
AT        Austria                FI B *
AU        Australia              FI   *
AW        Aruba
AZ        Azerbaidjan                            Ex-USSR
BA        Bosnia-Herzegovina                     Ex-Yugoslavia
BB        Barbados                    * 
BD        Bangladesh
BE        Belgium                FI B *
BF        Burkina Faso
BG        Bulgaria                    *
BH        Bahrain 
BI        Burundi
BJ        Benin
BM        Bermuda
BN        Brunei
BO        Bolivia
BR        Brazil                 FI B *
BS        Bahamas                     *
BT        Buthan
BV        Bouvet Island
BW        Botswana
BY        Bielorussia                            Ex-USSR
BZ        Belize
CA        Canada                 FI B *
CC        Cocos (Keeling) Isl.
CF        Central African Rep.
CG        Congo
CH        Switzerland            FI B *
CI        Ivory Coast
CK        Cook Islands
CL        Chile                  FI B *
CM        Cameroon
CN        China                       *
CO        Colombia                  B *
CR        Costa Rica                  *
CS        Czechoslovakia
CU        Cuba
CV        Cape Verde
CX        Christmas Island
CY        Cyprus                    B *
DE        Germany                FI B *
DJ        Djibouti
DK        Denmark                FI B *
DM        Dominica
DO        Dominican Republic
DZ        Algeria                   B * 
EC        Ecuador                FI   *
EE        Estonia                FI   *          Ex-USSR also via .su domain
EG        Egypt                     B *
EH        Western Sahara
ES        Spain                  FI B *
ET        Ethiopia
FI        Finland                FI B *
FJ        Fiji                        *
FK        Falkland Isl.(Malvinas)
FM        Micronesia (Fr.)
FO        Faroe Islands
FR        France                 FI B *
FX        France (European Ter.)                 ???
GA        Gabon
GB        Great Britain (UK)          *          In X.400 addresses only
GD        Grenada
GE        Georgia                                Ex-USSR
GH        Ghana
GI        Gibraltar
GL        Greenland
GP        Guadeloupe (Fr.)
GQ        Equatorial Guinea
GF        Guyana (Fr.)
GM        Gambia
GN        Guinea
GR        Greece                 FI B *
GT        Guatemala
GU        Guam (US)
GW        Guinea Bissau
GY        Guyana
HK        Hong Kong              FI B *
HM        Heard & McDonald Isl.
HN        Honduras
HR        Croatia                     *          Ex-Yugoslavia via .yu
HT        Haiti
HU        Hungary                FI B *
ID        Indonesia
IE        Ireland                FI B *
IL        Israel                 FI B *
IN        India                  FI B *
IO        British Indian O. Terr.
IQ        Iraq
IR        Iran
IS        Iceland                FI   *
IT        Italy                  FI B *
JM        Jamaica
JO        Jordan
JP        Japan                  FI B *
KE        Kenya
KG        Kirgistan                              Ex-USSR
KH        Cambodia
KI        Kiribati
KM        Comoros
KN        St.Kitts Nevis Anguilla
KP        Korea (North)
KR        Korea (South)          FI B *
KW        Kuwait                    B *          Gulfnet      
KY        Cayman Islands
KZ        Kazachstan                             Ex-USSR
LA        Laos
LB        Lebanon
LC        Saint Lucia
LI        Liechtenstein
LK        Sri Lanka
LR        Liberia
LS        Lesotho
LT        Lithuania                   *          Ex-USSR
LU        Luxembourg
LV        Latvia                      *          Ex-USSR
LY        Libya
MA        Morocco
MC        Monaco
MD        Moldavia                               Ex-USSR
MG        Madagascar
MH        Marshall Islands
ML        Mali
MM        Myanmar
MN        Mongolia
MO        Macau
MP        Northern Mariana Isl.
MQ        Martinique (Fr.)
MR        Mauritania
MS        Montserrat
MT        Malta
MU        Mauritius
MV        Maldives
MW        Malawi
MX        Mexico                 FI B *
MY        Malaysia                    *
MZ        Mozambique
NA        Namibia                     *
NC        New Caledonia (Fr.)
NE        Niger
NF        Norfolk Island
NG        Nigeria
NI        Nicaragua
NL        Netherlands            FI B *
NO        Norway                 FI B *
NP        Nepal
NR        Nauru
NT        Neutral Zone
NU        Niue
NZ        New Zealand            FI   *
OM        Oman
PA        Panama
PE        Peru
PF        Polynesia (Fr.)
PG        Papua New Guinea            *
PH        Philippines
PK        Pakistan
PL        Poland                 FI B *
PM        St. Pierre & Miquelon
PN        Pitcairn
PT        Portugal               FI   *  
PR        Puerto Rico (US)
PW        Palau
PY        Paraguay
QA        Qatar
RE        Reunion (Fr.)          FI   *          In .fr domain
RO        Romania
RU        Russian Federation                     Ex-USSR
RW        Rwanda
SA        Saudi Arabia              B *          GulfNet
SB        Solomon Islands
SC        Seychelles
SD        Sudan
SE        Sweden                 FI B *
SG        Singapore              FI B *
SH        St. Helena
SI        Slovenia                    *          Ex-Yugoslavia also via .yu
SJ        Svalbard & Jan Mayen Is
SL        Sierra Leone
SM        San Marino
SN        Senegal
SO        Somalia
SR        Suriname
ST        St. Tome and Principe
SU        Soviet Union           FI   *
SV        El Salvador
SY        Syria
SZ        Swaziland
TC        Turks & Caicos Islands
TD        Chad
TF        French Southern Terr.
TG        Togo
TH        Thailand               FI   *
TJ        Tadjikistan                            Ex-USSR
T??       Turkmenistan ?                         Ex-USSR
TK        Tokelau      
TN        Tunisia                FI B *
TO        Tonga
TP        East Timor
TR        Turkey                    B *
TT        Trinidad & Tobago
TV        Tuvalu
TW        Taiwan                 FI B *
TZ        Tanzania
UA        Ukraine                     *          Ex-USSR via .su domain
UG        Uganda
UK        United Kingdom         FI B *          ISO3166 code is GB
UM        US Minor outlying Isl.
US        United States          FI   *          .us sites NOT on BITNET (4)
UY        Uruguay
UZ        Uzbekistan                             Ex-USSR
VA        Vatican City State
VC        St.Vincent & Grenadines
VE        Venezuela                   *
VG        Virgin Islands (British)
VI        Virgin Islands (US)
VN        Vietnam
VU        Vanuatu
WF        Wallis & Futuna Islands
WS        Samoa
YE        Yemen
YU        Yugoslavia             FI B *          Bitnet not at the moment
ZA        South Africa           FI   *
ZM        Zambia
ZR        Zaire
ZW        Zimbabwe                    *

See Note [5] for the next fields:

ARPA      Old style Arpanet           *           alias still works !!!
COM       Company                FI   *
EDU       Educational            FI B *
GOV       US Government          FI   *
INT       Nato field             FI   *
MIL       US Military            FI   *
NATO      Nato field                  *          being replaced by .int
NET       Network                FI   *
ORG       Non-Profit OrganizationFI   *

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DISCLAIMER: while every effort is made to provide accurate information,
this list is not guaranteed to be accurate. This document is in NO WAY
an official document. The information given should not be used as a basis
for routing tables but only as general end-user information. This is a
voluntary effort. I would appreciate greatly if errors/omissions could
be pointed out to me and they would be corrected in the next release. 
Affiliation to Imperial College is given for identification purposes only.


-- 
Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department
 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK
       Internet/Bitnet: <foobar@ic.ac.uk> - Janet: <foobar@uk.ac.ic>