Humanities Geography Olympic Country Codes Share Flipboard Email Print Clive Rose / Getty Images Geography Country Information Basics Physical Geography Political Geography Population Climate History Maps Urban Geography View More by Matt Rosenberg Updated October 12, 2017 Each country has its own three-letter abbreviation or code that is used during the Olympic Games to represent that country. The following is a list of the 204 "countries" that are recognized by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) as National Olympic Committees. An asterisk (*) indicates a territory and not an independent country; a listing of the independent countries of the world is available. Three-Letter Olympic Country AbbreviationsAfghanistan - AFGAlbania - ALBAlgeria - ALGAmerican Samoa* - ASAAndorra - ANDAngola - ANGAntigua and Barbuda - ANTArgentina - ARGArmenia - ARMAruba* - ARUAustralia - AUSAustria - AUTAzerbaijan - AZEThe Bahamas - BAHBahrain - BRNBangladesh - BANBarbados - BARBelarus - BLRBelgium - BELBelize - BIZBermuda* - BERBenin - BENBhutan - BHUBolivia - BOLBosnia and Herzegovina - BIHBotswana - BOTBrazil - BRABritish Virgin Islands* - IVBBrunei - BRUBulgaria - BULBurkina Faso - BURBurundi - BDICambodia - CAMCameroon - CMRCanada - CANCape Verde - CPVCayman Islands* - CAYCentral African Republic - CAFChad - CHAChile - CHIChina - CHNColombia - COLComoros - COMCongo, Republic of the - CGOCongo, Democratic Republic of the - CODCook Islands* - COKCosta Rica - CRCCote d'Ivoire - CIVCroatia - CROCuba - CUBCyprus - CYPCzech Republic - CZEDenmark - DENDjibouti - DJIDominica - DMADominican Republic - DOMEast Timor (Timor-Leste) - TLSEcuador - ECUEgypt - EGYEl Salvador - ESAEquatorial Guinea - GEQEritrea - ERIEstonia - ESTEthiopia - ETHFiji - FIJFinland - FINFrance - FRAGabon - GABThe Gambia - GAMGeorgia - GEOGermany - GERGhana - GHAGreece - GREGrenada - GRNGuam* - GUMGuatemala - GUAGuinea - GUIGuinea-Bissau - GBSGuyana - GUYHaiti - HAIHonduras - HONHong Kong* - HKGHungary - HUNIceland - ISLIndia - INDIndonesia - INAIran - IRIIraq - IRQIreland - IRLIsrael - ISRItaly - ITAJamaica - JAMJapan - JPNJordan - JORKazakhstan - KAZKenya - KENKiribati - KIRKorea, North (PDR of Korea) - PRKKorea, South - KORKuwait - KUWKyrgyzstan - KGZLaos - LAOLatvia - LATLebanon - LIBLesotho - LESLiberia - LBRLibya - LBALiechtenstein - LIELithuania - LTULuxembourg - LUXMacedonia - MKD (Officially: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)Madagascar - MADMalawi - MAWMalaysia - MASMaldives - MDVMali - MLIMalta - MLTMarshall Islands - MHLMauritania - MTNMauritius - MRIMexico - MEXFederated States of Micronesia - FSMMoldova - MDAMonaco - MONMongolia - MGLMontenegro - MNEMorocco - MARMozambique - MOZMyanmar (Burma) - MYANamibia - NAMNauru - NRUNepal - NEPNetherlands - NEDNew Zealand - NZLNicaragua - NCANiger - NIGNigeria - NGRNorway - NOROman - OMAPakistan - PAKPalau - PLWPalestine* - PLEPanama - PANPapua New Guinea - PNGParaguay - PARPeru - PERPhilippines - PHIPoland - POLPortugal - PORPuerto Rico* - PURQatar - QATRomania - ROURussian Federation - RUSRwanda - RWASaint Kitts and Nevis - SKNSaint Lucia - LCASaint Vincent and the Grenadines - VINSamoa - SAMSan Marino - SMRSao Tome and Principe - STPSaudi Arabia - KSASenegal - SENSerbia - SRBSeychelles - SEYSierra Leone - SLESingapore - SINSlovakia - SVKSlovenia - SLOSolomon Islands - SOLSomalia - SOMSouth Africa - RSASpain - ESPSri Lanka - SRISudan - SUDSuriname - SURSwaziland - SWZSweden - SWESwitzerland - SUISyria - SYRTaiwan (Chinese Taipei) - TPETajikistan - TJKTanzania - TANThailand - THATogo - TOGTonga - TGATrinidad and Tobago - TRITunisia - TUNTurkey - TURTurkmenistan - TKMTuvalu - TUVUganda - UGAUkraine - UKRUnited Arab Emirates - UAEUnited Kingdom (Great Britain) - GBRUnited States - USAUruguay - URUUzbekistan - UZBVanuatu - VANVenezuela - VENVietnam - VIEVirgin Islands* - ISVYemen - YEMZambia - ZAMZimbabwe - ZIM Notes on the ListThe territory formerly known as Netherlands Antilles (AHO) was dissolved in 2010 and subsequently lost its status as an official National Olympic Committee in 2011.The Olympic Committee of Kosovo (OCK) was established in 2003 but as of this writing, remains unrecognized as a National Olympic Committee due to Serbia's dispute over Kosovo's independence. citecite this article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation Rosenberg, Matt. "Olympic Country Codes." ThoughtCo, Oct. 12, 2017, thoughtco.com/olympic-country-codes-1434454. Rosenberg, Matt. (2017, October 12). Olympic Country Codes. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/olympic-country-codes-1434454 Rosenberg, Matt. "Olympic Country Codes." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/olympic-country-codes-1434454 (accessed April 20, 2018). copy citation Continue Reading