This is a list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes.
Current NOCsEdit
There are 206 current NOCs (National Olympic Committees) within the Olympic Movement. The following tables show the currently used code for each NOC and any different codes used in past Games, per the official reports from those Games. Some of the past code usage is further explained in the following sections. Codes used specifically for a Summer Games only or a Winter Games only, within the same year, are indicated by "S" and "W" respectively.
Current NPCsEdit
Most National Paralympic Committees (NPC) cover a territory with an active NOC. In these cases the NPC codes matches the IOC codes shown above. The two current NPCs without a corresponding NOC use the following NPC codes.
| Code | National Paralympic Committee | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IPC | The Faroese Sport Organisation for Disabled |
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IPC, China | Associação Recreativa dos Deficientes de Macau |
Historic NOCs and teamsEdit
Codes still in useEdit
Fourteen historical NOCs or teams have codes that are still used in the IOC results database<ref name="IOCdb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to refer to past medal winners from these teams.
| Code | Nation/Team | Other codes used | |||
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| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | Template:Hlistcode from French Antilles hollandaises | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | Also AUA<ref name=IAAF2015 /> | |||
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| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | Template:Hlist | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | code taken from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | code from the French Équipe unifiée or Spanish Equipo Unificado | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | Template:Hlistcode FRG taken from Federal Republic of Germany | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | ODE (1968 S) from German Ostdeutschland code GDR taken from German Democratic Republic | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | code from Serbian Србија и Црна Гора / Srbija i Crna Gora | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | Template:Hlist code taken from French Tchécoslovaquie | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | SOV (1968 W) code from French Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques (URSS) | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag icon South Vietnam | Code of the State of Vietnam and then Republic of Vietnam from 1952 to 1975.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Obsolete codesEdit
Unlike the previous list, these codes no longer appear in the IOC results database. When a past athlete from one of these teams has won a medal, the new code is shown next to them instead.
Two other significant code changes have occurred, both because of a change in the nation's designation as used by the IOC:
- HOL was changed to NED for the Netherlands for the 1992 Games, reflecting the change in designation from Holland.
- IRN was changed to IRI for Iran for the 1992 Games, reflecting the change in designation to Islamic Republic of Iran.
Special codes for OlympicsEdit
| Code | Nation/team | Years | Notes | |||
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| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC from French Athlètes Individuels Neutres |
2024 | Used for Russian and Belarusian athletes competing as neutrals due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The delegation will use a flag and a one-off instrumental anthem assigned by the IOC. | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | 1908–1912 | Used in the IOC's medal database<ref name="IOCdb" /> to identify the team from Australasia, composed of athletes from both Australia and New Zealand for the 1908 and 1912 Games. Both nations competed separately by 1920. | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC from French Corée |
2018 | Used for the unified Korean women's ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC from French Équipe olympique des réfugiés |
2016–2024 | Used for the Refugee Olympic Team, for athletes who have been displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016.<ref>Rio2016.org, 3 June 2016 Template:Webarchive</ref> | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne |
1956–1964 | Used in the IOC's medal database<ref name="IOCdb" /> to identify the United Team of Germany, composed of athletes representing the NOCs of both East Germany and West Germany for the 1956–1964 Games. The team was simply known as Germany in the official reports for those six games at the time. | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC from French Équipe unifiée |
1992 | Used in 1992 (both Summer and Winter Games) for the Unified Team, composed of athletes from most of the former Soviet republics that chose to compete as a unified team. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania entered separately in 1992, whereas Russia and eleven other post-Soviet nations competed independently for the first time in 1994 or 1996. | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | Template:Hlist | Used for independent Olympic participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions. At the 1992 Summer Olympics IOP was used as a designation for athletes from the Republic of Macedonia too. IOP was also used during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi by Indian athletes due to the Indian Olympic Association suspension. | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | Template:Hlist | Used for Individual Olympic Athletes in 2000,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC2 | 2010–2012 | Used as the country code for Athletes from Kuwait, when the Kuwait Olympic Committee was suspended the first time, at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the 2010 Asian Games and the 2011 Asian Winter Games; for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC2 | 2010– | Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics.<ref name="MIX">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | 2018 | Used for Olympic Athletes from Russia competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Template:Mono | File:Russian Olympic Committee flag.png ROC from the abbreviation for Russian Olympic Committee |
2020–2022 | Used for Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The delegation used a flag depicting the logo of the Russian Olympic Committee. | |||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IOC | 1896–1904 | Used in the IOC's medal database to identify medals won by mixed teams of athletes from multiple nations (such as the combination of France and Great Britain), a situation that happened several times in the Games of 1896, 1900, and 1904. Until 2021, the IOC used the code ZZX for mixed teams.<ref name="IOCdb" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Special codes for ParalympicsEdit
| Code | Nation/Team | Years | Notes | ||
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| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IPC | 1992 | Used for Independent Paralympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Paralympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions. | ||
| Template:Mono | File:Paralympic flag (1994-2004).svg Individual Paralympic Athletes | Template:Hlist | De facto independent East Timor was not yet recognised as a sovereign state, and did not have a recognised National Paralympic Committee. Two athletes from the country gained the opportunity to in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC. | ||
| Template:Mono | File:Paralympic flag (2010-2019).svg Independent Paralympic Athletes | Template:Hlist | A team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as Independent Paralympic Athletes. | ||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IPC | Template:Hlist | Used in 2018 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Was to be used in 2022 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,<ref name="2022-ban">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |
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| Template:Mono | File:Paralympic flag (2019).svg Paralympic Neutral Athletes | – | Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,<ref name="2022-ban" /> however the Belarusian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Winter Paralympics and the code was not used. | ||
| Template:Mono | File:Russian Paralympic Committee special emblem (Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022).jpg RPC from the abbreviation for Russian Paralympic Committee |
Template:Hlist | Used for Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. The delegation used a flag with an altered emblem of the Russian Paralympic Committee (the original emblem being banned due to containing the flag of Russia). Was to be used in 2022 as well, however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| Template:Mono | Template:Flag IPC | Template:Hlist | The team represents the estimated 82 million people around the world who are refugees, and the 12 million of which have disabilities per UNHCR estimate. |
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Special codes for World GamesEdit
The World Games are a multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. The World Games are governed by the International World Games Association, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee.
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See alsoEdit
- Comparison of IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes
- List of FIFA country codes
- Lists of National Olympic Committees by continental association:
- List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games
- List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games
- List of CGF country codes
- ISO 3166-1
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