European 2 Letter Country Codes Cheat Sheet

As web designers, sometimes we need to work with lists of countries. For instance there is a new EU cookie law coming into action soon – that only applies to Europe. There is a worldwide standard that gives each country a 2 letter code.

The country code standard makes it easy for developers to combine different API’s consistently (standards are good). However there’s loads of country codes – and in order to fulfil our legal obligations I needed a list of 2 letter country codes applicable to Europe only. So, I created a list of codes that you can see (and use) below.

For a full list of all the ISO 2 letter country codes check out the Wikipedia page on the subject.

The European Country Codes

AL – Albania
AD – Andorra
AM – Armenia
AT – Austria (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 (from Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
GE – Georgia
GI – Gibraltar
GR – Greece
HU – Hungary
HR – Croatia
IE – Ireland
IS – Iceland
IT – Italy
LI – Liechtenstein
LT – Lithuania
LU – Luxembourg
LV – Latvia
MC – Monaco
MK – Macedonia
MT – Malta
NO – Norway
NL – Netherlands
PL – Poland
PT – Portugal
RO – Romania
RS – Serbia
RU – Russian Federation
SE – Sweden
SI – Slovenia
SK – Slovakia (Slovakian Republic)
SM – San Marino
TR – Turkey
UA – Ukraine
VA – Vatican City State

Since I made it for myself, here’s the list as a nice handy PHP array as well.

<?php
    $eu_countries = array(
        'AL', 'AD', 'AM', 'AT', 'BY', 'BE', 'BA', 'BG', 'CH', 'CY', 'CZ', 'DE',
        'DK', 'EE', 'ES', 'FO', 'FI', 'FR', 'GB', 'GE', 'GI', 'GR', 'HU', 'HR',
        'IE', 'IS', 'IT', 'LI', 'LT', 'LU', 'LV', 'MC', 'MK', 'MT', 'NO', 'NL', 'PL',
        'PT', 'RO', 'RS', 'RU', 'SE', 'SI', 'SK', 'SM', 'TR', 'UA', 'VA',
    );
?>

Note – I know this isn’t a proper cheat sheet – but it’ll save me some time, and I can’t ctrl-c an image into my IDE 🙂

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