Contents
Section or Table Page
Foreword and Disclaimer 1
Table of IATA Regions and Traffic Conference Codes 1
Notes on Country Names
ENCODE – Country Name to ISO Country Code 2
DECODE – ISO Country Code to Country Name 12
Foreword and Disclaimers
This document was prepared as an aid to my colleagues and myself, in checking Customer Usage against the current lists of Countries, IATA Regions and Traffic Conference Codes in preparation for Database load prior to System Delivery. As it was prepared outside Company time and is not part of the official company library, there are no copyright issues.
a) This is NOT an official International Standards Organisation Official Document, nor is it an IATA Official Document. For Airline professional use in Airlines, always refer to the current Standards Schedules Information Manual Appendix I.
b) The version posted on my web site: http://www.cue-dih.co.uk was prepared on the date shown at the left hand side at the foot of each page. Whilst the document may be maintained, for professional use please DO NOT ASSUME it contains the latest data.
E&OE
DIH 16 October 2004
Table of IATA Regions and Traffic Conference Codes:
IATA
Region Region Name Traffic Conference Code
AFR Africa TC2
CAR Caribbean TC1
CEM Central America TC1
EUR Europe TC2
JAK Japan and Korea TC3
MDE Middle East TC2
NOA North America TC1
SAS South Asia Subcontinent TC3
SEA South East Asia TC3
SOA South America TC1
SWP South West Pacific TC3
Notes on Country Names China Notes:
Hong Kong and Macau are Special Administrative Regions and from an Airline viewpoint have to be treated separately from the rest of the Peoples Republic of China.
With Taiwan the situation is more complex as it has an elected president a democratically elected government and is accepted by certain countries as being a sovereign nation. However it is viewed by the Chinese Government in Beijing as the 23rd province of China. This basic issue of sovereignty obviously results in challenges for Airlines wishing to operate to Taiwan and the rest of China,
Russian Federation Note:
The official ISO Country code is: RU.
However for Airline purposes ONLY IATA Regions and Traffic Conference have split the Federation along the line of the Urals into: East of the Urals – Code XU
West of the Urals – Code RU.
This means there are three entries in the ENCODE/DECODE Tables, the official and the IATA Split.
Vatican City State and Holy See - Note:
Some documents use the Holy See rather than the Vatican. In this document the information is detailed against the Vatican entry
Country Name ISO
Holy See (See Vatican City State)
Country Name ISO
Country Name ISO
Russian Federation East of the Urals (IATA ONLY) XU SEA TC3
Russian Federation West of the Urals (IATA ONLY) RU EUR TC2
Country Name ISO
Zaire (See Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The)
Zambia ZM AFR TC2
DECODE - ISO Country Code to Country Name
ISO
Code Country Name
ISO
Code Country Name
ISO
Code Country Name
ISO
Code Country Name
IATA
PS Palestinian Territory, Occupied MDE TC2
PT Portugal EUR TC2
RU Russian Federation West of the Urals (IATA ONLY) EUR TC2
ISO
Code Country Name
IATA
XU Russian Federation East of the Urals (IATA ONLY) SEA TC3
YE Yemen MDE TC2
YT Mayotte AFR TC2
ZA South Africa AFR TC2
ZM Zambia AFR TC2
ZW Zimbabwe AFR TC2
Holy See (See entry for the Vatican City State)
Taiwan (See China, Taiwan)
