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This is a list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes.
Current NOCs
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.
{| class="wikitable sortable col1center"
! Code
! National Olympic Committee
! Other codes used
! class="unsortable" | Link
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916014129/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/afghanistan/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101006162733/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Albania/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100915234756/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/algeria/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916013811/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/andorra/]
|-
| |||| ANO (as referenced in IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 Statistics Handbook) ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916014134/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/american-samoa/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100918071835/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/australia/]
|-
| |||| current code from French Autriche ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916014143/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/austria/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100914044917/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/azerbaijan/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20091006044511/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Bahamas/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916013607/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/bangladesh/]
|-
| |||| BAD (1964) ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916013827/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/barbados/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916013843/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/burundi/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100915234813/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/belgium/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010091422/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Benin/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916014148/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/bermuda/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100406195116/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Bhutan/]
|-
| |||| BSH (1992 S), BOS||PRC (1952 S) as People's Republic of China||[http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/people-s-republic-of-china/]
|-
| |||| current code from French Côte d'Ivoire||[https://www.olympic.org/cote-d-ivoire/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916013623/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/cameroon/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100918071849/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/]
|-
| |||| CKI 1964)||[https://web.archive.org/web/20091003171631/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/great-britain/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101007035749/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Guinea-Bissau/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010055720/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Georgia/]
|-
| |||| current code taken from the Spanish "Guinea Ecuatorial"
||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101006182428/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Equatorial-Guinea/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100813073108/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Germany/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010091428/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Ghana/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101007035744/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Greece/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010090048/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Grenada/]
|-
| |||| GUT (1964)||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010091026/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Guatemala/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010091432/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Guinea/]
|-
| |||| ||[http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/guam/]
|-
| |||| BGU|| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100916013853/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/chinese-taipei/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101007035848/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Trinidad-and-Tobago/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20100924041057/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/tunisia/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010043812/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Turkey/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010090517/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Tuvalu/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010091520/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/United-Arab-Emirates/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010091515/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Uganda/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010055801/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Ukraine/]
|-
| |||| URG (1968)||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010090523/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Uruguay/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101003110553/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/United-States-of-America/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101009013504/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Uzbekistan/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010090529/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Vanuatu/]
|-
| |||| ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010092637/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/Venezuela/]
|-
| |||| ||[http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/vietnam/]
|-
| |||| STV to refer to past medal winners from these teams.
{| class="wikitable sortable col1center"
! Code
! Nation/Team
! Other codes used
|-
| || || code from French Antilles hollandaises
|-
| || || Also AUA
|-
| || ||
|}
Obsolete codes
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.
{| class="wikitable sortable col1center"
! Code
! Nation (NOC)
! Years
! Notes
|-
| || <br />From French Birmanie|| 1948–1988 || Now
|-
| || || 1948–1972 || Now
|-
| || || 1964–1976 || Now
|-
| || || 1948–1964 || Now .<br /> The code former GUI has been reassigned to in 1965 when its new NOC was recognized by the IOC and used publicly in their first competed games in 1968. All formerly known by BGU
|-
| || <br />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.
|-
| || <br />from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne || 1956–1964 || Used in the IOC's medal database a designation used for athletes from Timor-Leste before the formation of its NOC.<br />IOA was used again in the 2012 Games, when it stood for Independent Olympic Athletes, comprising athletes from the former Netherlands Antilles and a runner from South Sudan.<br />The Netherlands Antilles Olympic Committee's membership from the IOC was withdrawn the previous year, and South Sudan had not yet formed an NOC at the time.<br />IOA was used again in 2016 for athletes from Kuwait as a result of the suspension of its National Olympic Committee.
|-
| || || 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;<br />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.
|-
| || || 2010– || Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics.
|-
| || || 2018 || Used for Olympic Athletes from Russia competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.
|-
| || 22px ROC<br />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.<br />The delegation used a flag depicting the logo of the Russian Olympic Committee.
|-
| || || 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. In 2021, the code was changed to MIX, matching the code for mixed teams at the Youth Olympics. In 2024, the code was changed to XXB.
|}
Special codes for Paralympics
{| class="wikitable sortable col1center"
! Code
! Nation/Team
! Years
! Notes
|-
| || || 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.
|-
| ||border|24px Individual Paralympic Athletes || || De facto independent East Timor was not yet recognised as a sovereign state, and did not have a recognised National Paralympic Committee.<br />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.
|-
| ||border|24px Independent Paralympic Athletes || || A team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as Independent Paralympic Athletes.
|-
| || || || Used in 2018 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.<br />Was to be used in 2022 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Games.<br />Used again in the 2024 Summer Paralympics for both Russian and Belarusian athletes.<br />In 2024, the designation was banned from using the Paralympic flag and instead used a white flag with black letters displaying "NPA" (but still used the Paralympic Anthem).
|-
| ||border|24px Paralympic Neutral Athletes || – || Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, || Haudenosaunee || 2022 || The Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois), who invented the sport of lacrosse and which has spiritual significance to them, were initially denied a spot to compete at the 2022 World Games, despite the Haudenosaunee national team's placement at the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship, due to not having a recognized NOC and issues concerning other countries recognizing sovereignty; they were given a spot to compete after Ireland agreed to drop out of competition in a show of solidarity.
|}
See also
- Comparison of alphabetic country codes
- List of FIFA country codes
- Lists of National Olympic Committees by continental association:
- Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa
- European Olympic Committees
- Oceania National Olympic Committees
- Olympic Council of Asia
- Pan American Sports Organization
- 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