Part I. Machine Readable Passports . Volume I Section IV. Technical specifications IV-43 APPENDIX 7 to Section IV THREE-LETTER CODES (based on Alpha-3 codes for entities specified in ISO 3166-1, with extensions for certain States being identified by an asterisk) Part A. Codes for designation of nationality, place of birth or issuing State/authority Entity (short name) Code Entity (short name)

Code Côte d.Ivoire CIV Afghanistan AFG Åland Islands ALA Albania ALB Algeria DZA Croatia HRV American Samoa ASM Cuba CUB Andorra AND Cyprus CYP Angola AGO Czech Republic CZE Anguilla AIA Democratic People.s Republic Antarctica ATA of Korea PRK Antigua and Barbuda ATG Democratic Republic Argentina ARG of the Congo COD Armenia ARM Denmark DNK Aruba ABW Djibouti DJI Australia AUS Dominica DMA Austria AUT Dominican Republic DOM Azerbaijan AZE Ecuador ECU Bahamas BHS Egypt EGY Bahrain BHR El Salvador SLV Bangladesh BGD Equatorial Guinea GNQ Barbados BRB Eritrea ERI Belarus BLR IV-44 Machine Readable Travel Documents Belgium BEL Estonia EST Belize BLZ Ethiopia ETH Benin BEN Falkland Islands (Malvinas) FLK4 Bermuda BMU Faroe Islands FRO Bhutan BTN Fiji FJI Bolivia BOL Finland FIN Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH France FRA Botswana BWA France, Metropolitan FXX Bouvet Island BVT French Guiana GUF Brazil BRA French Polynesia PYF British Indian Ocean Territory IOT French Southern Territories ATF Brunei Darussalam BRN Gabon GAB Bulgaria BGR Gambia GMB Burkina Faso BFA Georgia GEO Burundi BDI Germany D Cambodia KHM Ghana GHA Cameroon CMR Gibraltar GIB Canada CAN Greece GRC Cape Verde CPV Greenland GRL Cayman Islands CYM Grenada GRD Central African Republic CAF Guadeloupe GLP Chad TCD Guam GUM Chile CHL Guatemala GTM China CHN Guernsey GGY Christmas Island CXR Guinea GIN Cocos (Keeling) Islands CCK Guinea-Bissau GNB Colombia COL Guyana GUY Comoros COM Haiti HTI Congo COG Heard and McDonald Islands HMD Cook Islands COK Holy See (Vatican City State) VAT Costa Rica CRI Honduras HND Hong Kong Special Administrative New Caledonia NCL Region of China HKG New Zealand NZL Hungary HUN Nicaragua NIC Iceland ISL Niger NER India IND Nigeria NGA Indonesia IDN Niue NIU Iran (Islamic Republic of) IRN Norfolk Island NFK Iraq IRQ Northern Mariana Islands MNP Ireland IRL Part I. Machine Readable Passports . Volume I Isle of Man IMN Section IV. Technical specifications IV-45 Israel ISR Norway NOR Italy ITA Oman OMN Jamaica JAM Pakistan PAK Japan JPN Palau PLW Jersey JEY Panama PAN 4. A dispute exists between the Governments of Papua New Guinea PNG Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Palestinian Territory, Occupied PSE Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over the Paraguay PRY Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Jordan JOR Peru PER Kazakhstan KAZ Philippines PHL Kenya KEN Pitcairn PCN Kiribati KIR Poland POL Kuwait KWT Portugal PRT Kyrgyzstan KGZ Puerto Rico PRI Lao People.s Democratic Qatar QAT Republic LAO Republic of Korea MDA Latvia LVA Republic of Moldova KOR Lebanon LBN Réunion REU Lesotho LSO Romania ROU Liberia LBR Russian Federation RUS Libyan Arab Jamahiriya LBY Rwanda RWA Liechtenstein LIE St. Helena SHN Lithuania LTU Saint Kitts and Nevis KNA Luxembourg LUX Saint Lucia LCA Macau Special Administrative St. Pierre and Miquelon SPM Region of China MAC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VCT Madagascar MDG Samoa WSM Malawi MWI San Marino SMR Malaysia MYS Sao Tome and Principe STP Maldives MDV Saudi Arabia SAU Mali MLI Senegal SEN Malta MLT Serbia and Montenegro SCG Marshall Islands MHL Seychelles SYC Martinique MTQ Sierra Leone SLE Mauritania MRT Singapore SGP Mauritius MUS Slovakia SVK Mayotte MYT Slovenia SVN Mexico MEX Solomon Islands SLB Micronesia Somalia SOM (Federated States of) FSM South Africa ZAF Monaco MCO South Georgia and the South Mongolia MNG Sandwich Islands SGS Montserrat MSR Spain ESP Morocco MAR Sri Lanka LKA Mozambique MOZ Sudan SDN Myanmar MMR Suriname SUR Namibia NAM Svalbard and Jan Mayen Nauru NRU Islands SJM Nepal NPL Swaziland SWZ Netherlands NLD Sweden SWE Netherlands Antilles ANT Switzerland CHE Neutral Zone NTZ Syrian Arab Republic SYR Taiwan, Province of China TWN Tajikistan TJK Venezuela VEN Thailand THA Viet Nam VNM The former Yugoslav Republic Virgin Islands (British) VGB of Macedonia MKD Virgin Islands (U.S.) VIR Timor-Leste TLS Wallis and Futuna Islands WLF Togo TGO Western Sahara ESH Tokelau TKL Yemen YEM Tonga TON Zambia ZMB Trinidad and Tobago TTO Zimbabwe ZWE Tunisia TUN IV-46 Machine Readable Travel Documents Turkey TUR Part B . Codes for use in United Nations travel Turkmenistan TKM documents Turks and Caicos Islands TCA *UNO . Designates the United Nations Organization or Tuvalu TUV one of its officials. Uganda UGA *UNA . Designates a specialized agency of the United Ukraine UKR Nations or one of its officials. United Arab Emirates ARE *UNK . Designates a resident of Kosovo to whom a United Kingdom travel document has been issued by the United British Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo . Citizen GBR (UNMIK). . Dependent territories citizen GBD* Part C . Codes for other issuing authorities . National (Overseas) GBN* *XOM . Designates the Sovereign Military Order of . Overseas citizen GBO* Malta or one of its emissaries. . Protected person GBP* Part D . Codes for persons without a defined . Subject GBS* nationality United Republic of Tanzania TZA *XXA . Stateless person, as defined in Article 1 of the United States USA 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of United States Minor Stateless Persons. Outlying Islands UMI *XXB . Refugee, as defined in Article 1 of the 1951 Uruguay URY Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as Uzbekistan UZB amended by the 1967 Protocol. Vanuatu VUT *XXC . Refugee, other than as defined under the code Vatican City State (Holy See) VAT XXB above. *XXX . Person of unspecified nationality, for whom the issuing State does not consider it necessary to specify any of the codes XXA, XXB or XXC above, whatever that person.s status may be. This category may include a person who is neither stateless nor a refugee but who is of unknown nationality and legally residing in the State of issue. ______* These are the extensions to the ISO 3166-1 codes ______referred to in 9.5.5 of this section