European Country Abbreviations / Two Letter Codes

Sometimes (in menu descriptions and article titles), when spelling out a number of countries would make the description or title too long, we use the internationally accepted two-letter codes for countries -- similar to the three-letter codes for airports. There are also three-letter codes used by the UN, but we prefer the shorter ones.

Here's a list of codes for the countries we cover (and some we're thinking about covering in the future). More info about the ISO alpha-2 codes, and the complete worldwide list of them, can be found at the WorldAtlas.com site or at their Wikipedia page.

• AL / Albania
• AD / Andorra
• AM / Armenia
• AT / Austria (also sometimes OE in German-speaking countries: for "Oesterreich"
• BY / Belarus
• BE / Belgium
• BA / Bosnia and Herzegovina
• BG / Bulgaria
• CH / Switzerland (from Confoederatio Helvetica)
• CY / Cyprus
• CZ / Czech Republic
• DE / Germany
• DK / Denmark
• EE / Estonia
• ES / Spain
• FO / Faeroe Islands
• FI / Finland
• FR / France
• GB / United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
• GE / Georgia
• GI / Gibraltar
• GR / Greece
• HU / Hungary
• HR / Croatia (local name: Hrvatska)
• IE / Ireland
• IS / Iceland
• IT / Italy
• LT / Lithuania
• LU / Luxembourg
• LV / Latvia
• MC / Monaco
• MK / Macedonia
• MT / Malta
• NO / Norway
• NL / Netherlands
• PO / Poland
• PT / Portugal
• RO / Romania
• RU / Russian Federation
• SE / Sweden
• SI / Slovenia
• SK / Slovakia (Slovakian Republic)
• SM / San Marino
• TR / Turkey
• UA / Ukraine
• VA / Vatican City State