From: "The Compulatelist," January 1995, newsletter of the Philatelic Computing Study Group, P.O. Box 5025, Oxnard, CA 93031 U.S.A. Bob de Violini, Editor. dviolini@rain.org This document may be printed or re-posted with the requirement that this introductory text be included in the file. (c) 1995. -------------------------------------------------------------- A Cross-Reference between APRL Country Codes and International Olympic Committee and Internet Country Designators Prepared by the APS Computers in Philately Committee (July 1994) Collectors researching methods of preparing philatelic databases for more than one country have long discussed means of identifying countries for use in computer operations. Some have suggested using the three-letter designators used by the International Olympic Committee, others have suggested schemes bases on geographical location or the "mother country" in the case of colonies. Two overlooked sources of country identifiers are the two-letter identifiers used by the Internet (generally based on ISO document 3166) and the numerical listing prepared in 1979 by the American Philatelic Research Library, "Manual of Philatelic Headings Used by the American Philatelic Research Library," Smith, Evans, Mast, et al. (c) APRL, 1979. ISBN 0-934610-02-9. This cross-reference is provided as an introduction to this area, primarily to show the difficulities in using either the IOC list or the Internet list. Each is far from complete. (Only countries or areas with an IOC or Internet designator are included on these pages.) The few areas in the Internet list not included in the full APRL listing are shown without an APRL ID number. Country names included within square brackets are from the Internet designations for that region. APRL ID numbers in the 40000 series are for countries added by the Computers in Philately Committee after publication of the basic document. They are mostly for the newly emerging nations. See the file APRLALFA.TXT for a full alphabetical listing of the countries and codes. APRLNUMB.TXT is a numerical listing of these codes. ================================================================= APRL OTHER CODES ID# Country Name IOC INET ----- ---------------------- --------- 10320 Afghanistan AFG AF 10570 Albania ALB AL 10670 Algeria ALG DZ 11010 Andorra AND AD 11030 Angola ANG AO 11060 Anguilla AI ----- Antarctica AQ 11180 Antigua [& Barbuda] ANT AG 11290 Argentina ARG AR 40100 Armenia AM 28030 Aruba AW 11490 Australia AUS AU 11650 Austria AUT AT 40140 Azerbaijan AZ 12040 Bahamas BAH BS 12060 Bahrain BRN 12130 Bangladesh BAN BD 12160 Barbados BAR BB 12170 Barbuda [& Antigua] AG 40160 Belarus/Byelorussia BLR BY 12380 Belgium BEL BE 12420 Belize BIZ BZ 12460 Benin BEN BJ 12500 Bermuda BER BM 12560 Bhutan BHU BT 12660 Bolivia BOL BO 40180 Bosnia-Herzegovina BA 12710 Botswana BOT BW ----- Bouvet Island BV 12730 Brazil BRA BR 12980 Br. Indian Ocn Terr. [Chagos] IO 13340 Brunei BRU BN 13440 Bulgaria BUL BG 40200 Burkina Faso BF 13550 Burma [Myanmar] BIR MM 13580 Burundi BI 13700 Cambodia KH 13740 Cameroon CMR CM 13800 Canada CAN CA 13980 Cape Verde CV 14150 Cayman Islands KY 14170 Central African Republic CAF CF 14320 Chad CHA TD 14490 Chile CHI CL 15050 China, Peoples Republic of CHN CN 15040 China, Republic of (Taiwan) TPE TW 15100 Christmas Is. (Indian Ocn.) CX 15230 Cocos (Keeling) Islands CC 15250 Colombia COL CO 15540 Comoro Islands KM 15970 Congo CGO CG 16110 Cook Islands CK 16180 Costa Rica CRC CR 40240 Croatia HR 16320 Cuba CUB CU 16390 Cyprus CYP CY 16480 Czechoslovakia TCH CS 40260 Czech Republic CZE CZ 16810 Denmark DEN DK 16860 Djibouti DJI DJ 16920 Dominica DM 16930 Dominican Republic DOM DO 17180 Ecuador ECU EC 17200 Egypt EGY EG 17290 El Salvador ESA SV 17370 Equatorial Guinea GEQ GQ 40300 Estonia EE 17430 Ethiopia ETH ET 17480 Falkland Islands FK 17590 Faroe lslands FO 17710 Fiji FIJ FJ 17720 Finland FIN FI 17890 France FRA FR ----- France - European Terr. FX (1) 18600 French Guiana GF 18750 French Polynesia PF 18810 French Southern & Antarctic Terr. TF 18930 Gabon GAB GA 18950 The Gambia GAM GM 40380 Georgia GG 19260 Germany GER DE 19930 Germany, East GDR (2) 19940 Germany, West FRG (3) 19960 Ghana GHA GH 19970 Gibraltar GI 20080 Great Britain GBR GB 20490 Greece GRE GR 20700 Greenland GL 20730 Grenada GRN GD 20770 Guadeloupe GP 20810 Guatemala GUA GT 20860 Guinea GUI GN 40400 Guinea-Bissau GW 20910 Guyana GUY GY 20950 Haiti HAI HT ----- Heard & McDonald Is. HM 21200 Honduras HON HN 21230 Hong Kong HKG HK 21340 Hungary HUN HU 21470 Iceland ISL IS 21540 India IND IN 22280 Indonesia INA ID 22490 Iran IRN IR 22520 Iraq IRQ IQ 22550 Ireland IRL IE 22600 Israel ISR IL 22820 Italy ITA IT 23330 Ivory Coast CIV CI 23370 Jamaica JAM JM 23410 Japan JPN JP 23970 Jordan JOR JO 40440 Kazakhstan KK 24330 Kenya KEN KE 40460 Kiribati KI 24650 Korea, North PRK KP (4) 24670 Korea, South KOR KR (5) 24780 Kuwait KUW KW 40480 Kyrgystan KG 24920 Laos LAO LA 40500 Latvia LV 25060 Lebanon LIB LB 25210 Lesotho LES LS 25350 Liberia LBR LR 25520 Libya LBA LY 25550 Liechtenstein LIE LI 25630 Lithuania LT 25850 Luxembourg LUX LU 25880 Macao MO 40540 Macedonia MK 26150 Malagasy Republic MAD MG 26160 Malawi MAW MW 26400 Malaysia MAL MY 26420 Maldives, Republic of MDV MV 26430 Mali MLI ML 26460 Malta MLT MT 40560 Marshall Islands MH 26610 Martinique MQ 26720 Mauritania MTN MR 26730 Mauritius MRI MU 26750 Mayotte YT 26890 Mexico MEX MX 40620 Micronesia, Fed. States of FM 40640 Moldova MD 27390 Monaco MON MC 27430 Mongolia MGL MN 27570 Montserrat MS 27610 Morocco MAR MA 27760 Mozambique, People's Rep. of MOZ MZ 13550 Myanmar MM 40660 Namibia NA 27900 Nauru NR 28000 Nepal NEP NP 28010 Netherlands HOL NL 28020 Netherlands Antilles AHO AN ----- Neutral Zone NT (6) 28290 New Caledonia NC 28500 New Zealand NZL NZ 28540 Nicaragua NCA NI 28570 Niger NIG NE 28620 Nigeria NGR NG 28690 Niue NU 28700 Norfolk Island NF ----- Northern Marianas MP (7) 29040 Norway NOR NO 29280 Oman OMA OM 29480 Pakistan PAK PK 40680 Palau PW 29590 Panama PAN PA 29640 Papua New Guinea NGU PG 29650 Paraguay PAR PY 29850 Peru PER PE 30040 Philippines PHI PH 30100 Pitcairn Islands PN 30130 Poland POL PL 30370 Portugal POR PT 30590 Qatar QAT QA 30790 Reunion RE 31000 Romania ROM RO 40700 Russia RUS RU 31870 Rwanda RWA RW 32030 Saint Helena SH 32060 Saint Kitts-Nevis KN 32080 Saint Lucia LC 32100 Saint Pierre & Miquelon PM 32110 Saint Thomas & Prince Is. ST 32130 Saint Vincent [& Grenadines] VC 32210 Samoa [American Samoa] AS 38310 Western Samoa SAM WS 32270 San Marino SMR SM 32460 Saudi Arabia SAU SA 32630 Senegal SEN SN 32740 Seychelles SEY SC 32940 Sierra Leone SLE SL 32980 Singapore SIN SG 40720 Slovakia (Slovak Republic) SK 40740 Slovenia SLO SI 13250 British Solomon Is. SB 33120 Somalia SOM SO 33180 South Africa ZA 33580 Spain ESP ES 33930 Sri Lanka SRI LK 34010 Sudan SUD SD 34100 Surinam SUR SR ----- Svalbard & Jan Mayen Is. SJ 34120 Swaziland SWZ SZ 34130 Sweden SWE SE 34150 Switzerland SUI CH 34370 Syria SYR SY 40760 Tajikistan TJ 34550 Tanzania TAN TZ 34830 Thailand THA TH 35020 Timor [East Timor] TP 35090 Togo TOG TG 35160 Tokelau Islands TK 35180 Tonga TGA TO 35510 Trinidad & Tobago TRI TT 35760 Tunisia TUN TN 35780 Turkey TUR TR 36050 Turkmenistan TM 36070 Turks & Caicos Islands TC 36110 Tuvalu TV 36170 Uganda UGA UG 40800 Ukraine UA 36230 Union of Soviet Soc. Rep. URS SU 36260 United Arab Emirates UAE AE ----- United Kingdom UK 36320 United States USA US 36420 United States Virgin Is. VI ----- US Outlying Islands UM (8) 37610 Upper Volta VOL 37620 Uruguay URU UY 40820 Uzbekistan UZB UZ 40840 Vanuatu VU 37700 Vatican City VA 37730 Venezuela VEN VE 37890 Vietnam VIE VN 37960 British Virgin Islands ISV VG 38160 Wallis & Futuna Islands WF ----- Western Sahara EH (9) 40860 Yemen, People's Dem. Rep. YMD YE 38520 Yemen Arab Republic YAR 38540 Yugoslavia YUG YU 38720 Zaire ZAI ZR 38740 Zambia ZAM ZM 40880 Zimbabwe ZIM ZW -------------------------------------------------- NOTES (1) Unknown to what this refers. Can anyone help? (2) German Democratic Republic (GDR) (3) Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) (4) Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) (5) Republic of Korea (ROK) (6) The one south of Iraq and west of Kuwait? (7) Rota, Tinian, Saipan and north to about 21 deg. N. (8) Which "outlying" islands? Wake, Midway, Johnston Atoll, French Frigate Shoals? (9) Is this composed of parts of Algeria, Mauritania and Mali?? A news report from 08 Dec 94 indicated that postage stamps had been issued by Palestine for internal mail use in Gaza and Jericho. The report stated that no agreement had yet been reached by Israel and Palestine on the international use of those stamps.