<p>Each country has its own three-letter abbreviation or code that is used during the <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-olympics-1779619" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Olympic Games</a> to represent that <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/number-of-countries-in-the-world-1433445" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">country.</a> The following is a list of the 204 &#34;countries&#34; that are recognized by the <a href="https://www.olympic.org/the-ioc" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="externalLink" data-ordinal="3">IOC (International Olympic Committee)</a> 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.</p><h3>Three-Letter Olympic Country Abbreviations</h3><p>Afghanistan - AFG<br/>Albania - ALB<br/>Algeria - ALG<br/>American Samoa* - ASA<br/>Andorra - AND<br/>Angola - ANG<br/>Antigua and Barbuda - ANT<br/>Argentina - ARG<br/>Armenia - ARM<br/>Aruba* - ARU<br/>Australia - AUS<br/>Austria - AUT<br/>Azerbaijan - AZE<br/>The Bahamas - BAH<br/>Bahrain - BRN<br/>Bangladesh - BAN<br/>Barbados - BAR<br/>Belarus - BLR<br/>Belgium - BEL<br/>Belize - BIZ<br/>Bermuda* - BER<br/>Benin - BEN<br/>Bhutan - BHU<br/>Bolivia - BOL<br/>Bosnia and Herzegovina - BIH<br/>Botswana - BOT<br/>Brazil - BRA<br/>British Virgin Islands* - IVB<br/>Brunei - BRU<br/>Bulgaria - BUL<br/>Burkina Faso - BUR<br/>Burundi - BDI<br/>Cambodia - CAM<br/>Cameroon - CMR<br/>Canada - CAN<br/>Cape Verde - CPV<br/>Cayman Islands* - CAY<br/>Central African Republic - CAF<br/>Chad - CHA<br/>Chile - CHI<br/>China - CHN<br/>Colombia - COL<br/>Comoros - COM<br/>Congo, Republic of the - CGO<br/>Congo, Democratic Republic of the - COD<br/>Cook Islands* - COK<br/>Costa Rica - CRC<br/>Cote d&#39;Ivoire - CIV<br/>Croatia - CRO<br/>Cuba - CUB<br/>Cyprus - CYP<br/>Czech Republic - CZE<br/>Denmark - DEN<br/>Djibouti - DJI<br/>Dominica - DMA<br/>Dominican Republic - DOM<br/>East Timor (Timor-Leste) - TLS<br/>Ecuador - ECU<br/>Egypt - EGY<br/>El Salvador - ESA<br/>Equatorial Guinea - GEQ<br/>Eritrea - ERI<br/>Estonia - EST<br/>Ethiopia - ETH<br/>Fiji - FIJ<br/>Finland - FIN<br/>France - FRA<br/>Gabon - GAB<br/>The Gambia - GAM<br/>Georgia - GEO<br/>Germany - GER<br/>Ghana - GHA<br/>Greece - GRE<br/>Grenada - GRN<br/>Guam* - GUM<br/>Guatemala - GUA<br/>Guinea - GUI<br/>Guinea-Bissau - GBS<br/>Guyana - GUY<br/>Haiti - HAI<br/>Honduras - HON<br/>Hong Kong* - HKG<br/>Hungary - HUN<br/>Iceland - ISL<br/>India - IND<br/>Indonesia - INA<br/>Iran - IRI<br/>Iraq - IRQ<br/>Ireland - IRL<br/>Israel - ISR<br/>Italy - ITA<br/>Jamaica - JAM<br/>Japan - JPN<br/>Jordan - JOR<br/>Kazakhstan - KAZ<br/>Kenya - KEN<br/>Kiribati - KIR<br/>Korea, North (PDR of Korea) - PRK<br/>Korea, South - KOR<br/>Kuwait - KUW<br/>Kyrgyzstan - KGZ<br/>Laos - LAO<br/>Latvia - LAT<br/>Lebanon - LIB<br/>Lesotho - LES<br/>Liberia - LBR<br/>Libya - LBA<br/>Liechtenstein - LIE<br/>Lithuania - LTU<br/>Luxembourg - LUX<br/>Macedonia - MKD (Officially: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)<br/>Madagascar - MAD<br/>Malawi - MAW<br/>Malaysia - MAS<br/>Maldives - MDV<br/>Mali - MLI<br/>Malta - MLT<br/>Marshall Islands - MHL<br/>Mauritania - MTN<br/>Mauritius - MRI<br/>Mexico - MEX<br/>Federated States of Micronesia - FSM<br/>Moldova - MDA<br/>Monaco - MON<br/>Mongolia - MGL<br/>Montenegro - MNE<br/>Morocco - MAR<br/>Mozambique - MOZ<br/>Myanmar (Burma) - MYA<br/>Namibia - NAM<br/>Nauru - NRU<br/>Nepal - NEP<br/>Netherlands - NED<br/>New Zealand - NZL<br/>Nicaragua - NCA<br/>Niger - NIG<br/>Nigeria - NGR<br/>Norway - NOR<br/>Oman - OMA<br/>Pakistan - PAK<br/>Palau - PLW<br/>Palestine* - PLE<br/>Panama - PAN<br/>Papua New Guinea - PNG<br/>Paraguay - PAR<br/>Peru - PER<br/>Philippines - PHI<br/>Poland - POL<br/>Portugal - POR<br/>Puerto Rico* - PUR<br/>Qatar - QAT<br/>Romania - ROU<br/>Russian Federation - RUS<br/>Rwanda - RWA<br/>Saint Kitts and Nevis - SKN<br/>Saint Lucia - LCA<br/>Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - VIN<br/>Samoa - SAM<br/>San Marino - SMR<br/>Sao Tome and Principe - STP<br/>Saudi Arabia - KSA<br/>Senegal - SEN<br/>Serbia - SRB<br/>Seychelles - SEY<br/>Sierra Leone - SLE<br/>Singapore - SIN<br/>Slovakia - SVK<br/>Slovenia - SLO<br/>Solomon Islands - SOL<br/>Somalia - SOM<br/>South Africa - RSA<br/>Spain - ESP<br/>Sri Lanka - SRI<br/>Sudan - SUD<br/>Suriname - SUR<br/>Swaziland - SWZ<br/>Sweden - SWE<br/>Switzerland - SUI<br/>Syria - SYR<br/>Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) - TPE<br/>Tajikistan - TJK<br/>Tanzania - TAN<br/>Thailand - THA<br/>Togo - TOG<br/>Tonga - TGA<br/>Trinidad and Tobago - TRI<br/>Tunisia - TUN<br/>Turkey - TUR<br/>Turkmenistan - TKM<br/>Tuvalu - TUV<br/>Uganda - UGA<br/>Ukraine - UKR<br/>United Arab Emirates - UAE<br/>United Kingdom (Great Britain) - GBR<br/>United States - USA<br/>Uruguay - URU<br/>Uzbekistan - UZB<br/>Vanuatu - VAN<br/>Venezuela - VEN<br/>Vietnam - VIE<br/>Virgin Islands* - ISV<br/>Yemen - YEM<br/>Zambia - ZAM<br/>Zimbabwe - ZIM</p><h3>Notes on the List</h3><p>The territory formerly known as Netherlands Antilles (AHO) was <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/geography-of-the-netherlands-1435240" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="4">dissolved</a> in 2010 and subsequently lost its status as an official National Olympic Committee in 2011.</p><p>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&#39;s dispute over <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/kosovo-independence-overview-1435550" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="5">Kosovo&#39;s independence</a>.</p>