Editing Country code (section)

==Other country codes==
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The developers of ISO 3166 intended that in time it would replace other coding systems.

===Other general-purpose systems===
* '''[[List of FIPS country codes|FIPS country codes]]''': [[Federal Information Processing Standard]] (FIPS) [[FIPS 10-4|10-4]] defined two-letter codes used by the [[U.S. government]] and in the [[CIA World Factbook]]. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by [[NIST]] as a Federal Information Processing Standard.<ref>{{cite journal |journal= Federal Register |date= Sep 2, 2008 |volume= 73 |issue= 170 |page= 51276 |id= E8-20138 |url= https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/09/02/E8-20138/announcing-approval-of-the-withdrawal-of-ten-federal-information-processing-standards-fips |title= Announcing Approval of the Withdrawal of Ten Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) }}</ref>
* '''[[GOST 7.67]]''': country codes in [[Cyrillic]] from the [[GOST]] standards committee.
* '''[[List of NATO country codes|NATO country codes]]''': [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO) initially used two-letter codes largely borrowed from the FIPS 10-4 codes mentioned above. In 2003, the eighth edition of the Standardisation Agreement ([[STANAG]]) adopted the ISO 3166 three-letter codes with one exception (the code for Macedonia). With the ninth edition, NATO is transitioning to four- and six-letter codes based on ISO 3166 with a few exceptions and additions.
* The '''[[First-level NUTS of the European Union|first-level]]''' of the [[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics]] of the [[European Union]], mostly focusing on EU member states.
* '''[[List of UNDP country codes|UNDP country codes]]''', used by the [[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP).
* '''[[World Area Codes]]''', used by the [[Bureau of Transportation Statistics]], part of the [[United States Department of Transportation]].

===Business===
* '''[[List of GS1 country codes|GS1 country codes]]''', defined by the nonprofit international organization [[GS1]] for its [[Global Trade Item Number]] (GTIN) and other standards for barcodes and the corresponding issue company prefixes.
* '''[[WIPO ST.3]]''', defined by [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO) to identify both countries and regional intellectual property organizations.

===Sport===
* '''[[List of IOC country codes|IOC country codes]]''', defined by the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) to identify member countries, specifically [[National Olympic Committee]]s.
* '''[[List of FIFA country codes|FIFA country codes]]''', to identify member and non-member countries of [[FIFA]] (Fédération Internationale de Football Association).

===Transport===
* '''[[International vehicle registration code]]s''', under the 1949 [[Geneva Convention on Road Traffic]] and the 1968 [[Vienna Convention on Road Traffic]] to identify the country that issued a motor vehicle's [[vehicle registration plate]].
** After the [[Enlargement of the European Union|2004 EU enlargement]], the EU began instead using the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for license plate codes, but with two modifications: EL for Greece (instead of GR) and (formerly) UK for United Kingdom (instead of GB)[https://web.archive.org/web/20190628014602/https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/pdfscache/4904.pdf]
** [[Diplomatic license plates in the United States]], issued by the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]] to accredited diplomats, include a two-letter country code to identify that representative's country.
* '''[[List of aircraft registration prefixes|ICAO aircraft registration prefixes]]''', defined by the [[International Civil Aviation Organization]] (ICAO) to identify an aircraft's country of registration.
* '''[[ICAO airport code]] prefixes''', defined by the ICAO to identify an airport's country.
* '''[[List of UIC country codes|UIC country codes]]''', to identify members of the [[International Union of Railways]] (UIC).

===Other specific-purpose codes===
* '''[[Country code top-level domain]]''' (ccTLD), an Internet [[top-level domain]]. Originally defined by the [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]] (IANA), it was initially based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
* '''[[World Meteorological Organization]]''' (WMO) maintains its own list of country codes in reporting meteorological observations.