Support DocumentSACC Coding Index
Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) Coding Index
AVETMISS Data Element Definitions: edition 2.3
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This codingindex is based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), ABS Catalogue No. 1269.0, 2016.
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SACC Coding Index
This coding index contains a comprehensive list of the most probable responses to questions relating to country and their correct classification codes.
Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) ABS Catalogue No. 1269.0, 2016
* red denotes addition of former country codes and names where not covered by ABS SACC coding index file
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4216Abu Dhabi
3207Acarnania
5202Aceh
3207Achaea
4215Adana
1601Adelie Land (France)
4217Aden
3207Aegean Islands
3207Aegean Macedonia
7201Afghanestan
7201Afghanistan
0918Africa
3207Aghion Oros
3204Agram
1501Aitutaki Island
2408Aland
2408Aland Islands
8104Alaska
3201Albania
8102Alberta
2107Alderney
4214Aleppo
4102Alexandria
4101Algeria
4101Algerie
4108Alhucemas
5202Ambon
8104America
1506American Samoa
8000Americas
4206Amman
5105An Giang
4215Anatolia
7103Andaman Island
7103Andhra Pradesh
3101Andorra
2102Angleterre
9201Angola
8401Anguilla
2304Anhalt
4215Ankara
1600Antarctica
8402Antigua
8402Antigua and Barbuda
2104Antrim
1304Api Island
3104Apulia
4213Arabia
3207Arcadia
8201Argentina
1602Argentinian Antarctic Territory
2104Armagh
7202Armenia
8403Aruba
4105As Sudan
9222Ascension
0917Asia
4215Asia Minor
7103Assam
4200Assyria
4203Assyria Iran
4204Assyria Iraq
4102Aswan
0001At Sea
1501Atiu Island
3207Attica
1101Australia
1100Australia (includes External Territories)
1603Australian Antarctic Territory
1101Australian Capital Territory
1199Australian External Territories, nec
2301Austria
4215Aydin
9225Azania
7203Azerbaidzhan
7203Azerbaijan
3106Azores
-B
2304Baden Wurttemberg
8404Bahamas
4201Bahrain
1599Baker Island
3108Balearic Islands
3203Balgarija
5202Bali
3300Baltic States
1402Banaba
3000Banat
5202Banda Islands
5202Bangay
5202Banggai Islands
7101Bangladesh
8405Barbados
4100Barbary
8402Barbuda
3108Basque
4204Basra
9211Basutoland
5204Bataan
5202Batavia
1101Bathurst Island
2304Bavaria
4208Beirut
4202Beit Jala
3301Belarus
2104Belfast
9108Belgian Congo
2302Belgie
2302Belgium
3215Belgrade
8301Belize
3301Belorussia
9101Benin
2304Berlin
8101Bermuda
3000Bessarabia
7103Bharat
7102Bhutan
5202Biak
5202Billiton Island
5202Bintan Island
5202Bintang Island
9112Bioko
3302Bohemia
3302Bohmen ud Mahren
8202Bolivia
8202Bolivia, Plurinational State of
8433Bonaire
8433Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
6201Bonin Islands
0001Born at Sea
5200Borneo
3202Bosna
3202Bosnia
3202Bosnia and Herzegovina
3202Bosnija
9202Botswana
1302Bougainville
8203Brasil
8203Brazil
2304BRD
2304Bremen
2100Britain
1604British Antarctic Territory
5203British Borneo
5101British Burma
8102British Columbia
9200British East Africa
8211British Guiana
8301British Honduras
7103British India
9299British Indian Ocean Territory
2100British Isles
5203British Malaya
1303British Solomon Islands Protectorate
9224British Somaliland
8427British Virgin Islands
9100British West Africa
8400British West Indies
5201Brunei
5201Brunei Darussalam
3000Bukovina
3203Bulgaria
9102Burkina Faso
5101Burma
5101Burma (Myanmar)
5101Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar)
4215Bursa
9203Burundi
3301Byelorussia
-C
9201Cabinda
4102Cairo
3104Calabria
8104California
5102Cambodia
9103Cameroon
9103Cameroun
3104Campania
8102Canada
3108Canary Islands
1402Canton Island
9104Cape Verde
3104Capri
3308Carelia
8400Caribbean
1402Caroline Island
7200Caucasus
2201Cavan
8406Cayman Islands
5202Celebes
9100Central Africa
9105Central African Empire
9105Central African Republic
8300Central America
9100Central and West Africa
7200Central Asia
3300Ceskoslovensko
4108Ceuta
7107Ceylon
2311CH
9106Chad
4108Chafarinas
3207Chalkidiki
7103Chandigarh
2100Channel Islands
1201Chatham Islands
3204Cherso
8204Chile
1605Chilean Antarctic Territory
6101China
6101China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
6100Chinese Asia (includes Mongolia)
3207Chios
6202Chosan
6200Chosen
6202Choson
1101Christmas Island
1101Christmas Island (Australia)
1101Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
1402Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean)
1101Cocos (Keeling) Islands
1101Cocos Island
8205Colombia
9204Comoro Island
9204Comoros
9107Congo
9108Congo, Democratic Republic of
9107Congo, People's Republic of
9107Congo, Republic of
1501Cook Islands
1199Coral Sea Islands
3207Corfu
2201Cork
2303Corsica
4215Corum
8302Costa Rica
9111Cote d'Ivoire
3207Crete
3312Crimea
3211Crisana
3204Croatia
3300CSSR
8407Cuba
8434Curacao
8434Curacao Island
2106Cymru
3205Cyprus
3302Czech
3302Czech Republic
3300Czechoslovakia
-D
9126Dakar
3204Dalmatia
4214Damascus
7103Damoh
2401Danmark
3307Danzig
2407Darlana
1101Darnley Island
1302Daru Island
7103Delhi
6202Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2401Denmark
9223Desroches Island
2304Deutschland
9205Djibouti
3207Dodecanese Islands
4212Doha
8408Dominica
8411Dominican Republic
2201Donegal
3207Drama
2304Dresden
4216Dubai
2201Dublin
5202Dutch East Indies
8214Dutch Guiana
5202Dutch Indies
5202Dutch New Guinea
8400Dutch West Indies
-E
9200East Africa
0916East Asia
2304East Germany
5200East Indies
7101East Pakistan
5206East Timor
8204Easter Island
3300Eastern Europe
8206Ecuador
4102Egypt
2201Eire
8303El Salvador
3207Elia
1511Ellice Islands
2102England
3207Epirus
9112Equatorial Guinea
9206Eritrea
3108Espana
3303Estonia
9207Ethiopia
0911Europe
-F
8207Falkland Islands
1402Fanning Island
2402Faroe Islands
7105Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
3200Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
5203Federated Malay States
1404Federated States of Micronesia
1502Fiji
1502Fiji Islands
2403Finland
3204Fiume
1101Flinders Island
3207Florina
3200FLRJ
3300Former Czechoslovakia
0912Former USSR
3206Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
3200Former Yugoslavia
2303France
2304Frankfurt
9103French Cameroon
9100French Central Africa
8208French Guiana
9116French Guinea
1503French Polynesia
9205French Somaliland
9299French Southern Territories
9121French Sudan
1508Friendly Islands
2308Friesland
3206FYROM
-G
9113Gabon
3000Galicia
2201Galway
9114Gambia
4202Gaza Strip
4202Gaza Strip and West Bank
7204Georgia
2304Gera
2304Germany
9115Ghana
5105Gia Lai
3102Gibraltar
1402Gilbert Islands
7103Goa
1101Gold Coast
3105Gozo Malta
2100Great Britain
3207Greece
3207Greek Macedonia
2404Greenland
8412Grenada
8424Grenadines
2404Gronland
1101Groote Eylandt
8413Guadeloupe
1401Guam
6101Guangzhou
8304Guatemala
2107Guernsey
9116Guinea
9117Guinea-Bissau
9116Guinee
8211Guyana
8208Guyane
-H
4205Haifa
6101Hainan Island
8414Haiti
2304Halle
2304Hamburg
5105Hanoi
2304Hanover
7103Haryana
8104Hawaii
1199Heard Island
2105Hebrides
3202Hercegovina
1501Hervey Island
3202Herzegovina
2304Hessen
6102HK
2308Holland
3103Holy See
8305Honduras
6102Hong Kong
6102Hong Kong (SAR of China)
3204Hrvatska
3304Hungary
-I
4215Icel
2405Iceland
0000Inadequately Described
7103India
5100Indo China
5202Indonesia
6101Inner Mongolia
3207Ioannina
3207Ionian Islands
4203Iran
4204Iraq
2201Ireland
5202Irian
5202Irian Jaya
2201Irish Free State
2201Irish Republic
2103Isle of Man
2102Isle of Sheppey
2102Isle of Wight
2102Isles of Scilly
4102Ismailia
4205Israel
4215Istanbul
3200Istria
3104Italia
3104Italy
9111Ivory Coast
-J
5202Jakarta
8415Jamaica
4105Jamhuryat es Sudan
7103Jammu and Kashmir
6201Japan
6200Japan and the Koreas
1599Jarvis Island
5202Java
2108Jersey
4205Jerusalem
1599Johnston and Sand Islands
5203Johor
5203Johore
4206Jordan
3200Jugoslavia
3200Jugoslavija
-K
2404Kalaallit Nunaat
5102Kampuchea
1402Kanton Island
4215Kars
7100Kashmir
3207Kastelorizo
7205Kazakhstan
7205Kazakstan
3207Kefalonia
9208Kenya
7103Kerala
4105Khartoum
5102Khmer
3205Kibris
5105Kien Giang
1101King Island
1599Kingman Reef
1402Kiribati
5105Kon Tum
4215Konya
6203Korea
6202Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North)
6203Korea, Republic of (South)
3216Kosova
3216Kosovo
6102Kowloon
5203Kuala Lumpur
0915Kurdistan
4215Kutahya
4207Kuwait
6101Kwang Chou Wan
6101Kwantung
3205Kypros
7206Kyrgyz Republic
7206Kyrgyzstan
-L
8102Labrador
5203Labuan
1400Ladrone Islands
5105Lang Son
5103Lao
5103Laos
2400Lapland
3305Latvia
3305Latvija
4208Lebanon
3207Lemnos
9211Lesotho
3305Lettland
4200Levant
2105Lewis
9118Liberia
4103Libiya
4103Libya
2305Liechtenstein
1301Lifou Island
3306Lithuania
3104Lombardia
3104Lombardy
2104Londonderry
8204Londonderry Island
1101Lord Howe Island
2303Lorraine
2201Louth
1301Loyalty Islands
3104Lucania
2306Luxembourg
2306Luxemburg
2405Lyoveldio Island
-M
3206Macadonia
6103Macao
6103Macau (SAR of China)
3206Macedonia
1101Macquarie Island
9212Madagascar
3106Madeira
3207Magnesia
3304Magyarorszag
7103Mahe
5100Mainland South-East Asia
3108Majorca
3206Makedhonia
3206Makedonia
3206Makedonija
3206Makedoniya
3206Makedonska
5203Malacca
9212Malagash
1304Malakula
4215Malatya
9213Malawi
5203Malaya
5203Malaysia
7104Maldives
9121Mali
3105Malta
8207Malvinas
6101Manchuria
1501Mangaia Island
4215Manisa
8102Manitoba
1302Manus
4215Mardin
1400Marianas Islands
5200Maritime South-East Asia
1503Marquesas Islands
1403Marshall Islands
8416Martinique
1501Mauke Island
9122Mauritania
9214Mauritius
9215Mayotte
1199McDonald Islands
2201Meath
2304Mecklenburg
1300Melanesia
4108Melilla
1101Melville Island
3306Memelland
4204Mesopotamia
8306Mexico
1400Micronesia
1404Micronesia, Federated States of
4200Middle East
1599Midway Islands
8103Miquelon
4102Misr
1501Mitiaro Island
9216Mocambique
3208Moldova
5202Moluccas
2307Monaco
6104Mongolia
2307Monte Carlo
3214Montenegro
8417Montserrat
3302Morava
3302Moravia
4104Morocco
9216Mozambique
2201Munster
1101Murray Island
4211Muscat
5101Myanmar
-N
2104N Ireland
7103Nagaland
9217Namibia
9225Natal
1405Nauru
2308Nederland
2308Nederlands
8400Nederlandse Antillen
7105Nepal
7105Nepal, Federal Democratic Republic of
2308Netherlands
8400Netherlands Antilles
5202Netherlands East Indies
8400Netherlands West Indies
8422Nevis
1302New Britain
8102New Brunswick
1301New Caledonia
1302New Guinea
1304New Hebrides
1302New Ireland
1101New South Wales
1201New Zealand
8102Newfoundland
8307Nicaragua
7103Nicobar Islands
9123Niger
9124Nigeria
6201Nihon
6201Nippon
1504Niue
1302Niugini
1102Norfolk Island
2406Norge
4100North Africa
4000North Africa and the Middle East
5203North Borneo
6202North Korea
4208North Lebanon
5105North Viet Nam
5105North Vietnam
4217North Yemen
6000North-East Asia
8100Northern America
3205Northern Cyprus
2400Northern Europe
2104Northern Ireland
1406Northern Mariana Islands
9231Northern Rhodesia
1101Northern Territory
2000North-West Europe
8102Northwest Territories
2406Norway
1301Noumea
8102Nova Scotia
9213Nyasaland
1201NZ
-O
1402Ocean Island
1000Oceania and Antarctica
6201Okinawa
4211Oman
8102Ontario
9225Orange Free State
4215Ordu
7103Orissa
2105Orkney Islands
2301Osterreich
6104Outer Mongolia
-P
1000Pacific Islands
1400Pacific Islands Trust Territory
5203Pahang
7106Pakistan
1407Palau
5202Palembang
4202Palestine
1101Palm Island
8308Panama
1302Papua New Guinea
1302Papua Niugini
8212Paraguay
2303Paris
8200Patagonia
3207Peloponnese
3207Peloponnisos
5203Penang
4108Penon de Velez
6101People's Republic of China
6202People's Democratic Republic of Korea
5203Perak
5203Perlis
4203Persia
8213Peru
5204Philippines
3207Phocis
1402Phoenix Island
3207Pieria
5204Pilipinas
3203Pirin Macedonia
1513Pitcairn Island
1513Pitcairn Islands
1405Pleasant Island
1302PNG
3307Poland
3312Polish Ukraine
3307Polska
1500Polynesia (excludes Hawaii)
1599Polynesia (excludes Hawaii), nec
1302Port Moresby
4102Port Said
3106Portugal
9000Portuguese Africa
9216Portuguese East Africa
9117Portuguese Guinea
6103Portuguese Macao
5206Portuguese Timor
9201Portuguese West Africa
6101PR China
6101PRC
8102Prince Edward Island
7103Puducherry
8421Puerto Rico
3104Puglia
7100Punjab
-Q
4212Qatar
8102Quebec
1606Queen Maud Land (Norway)
1101Queensland
-R
1302Rabaul
1501Rarotonga
1101Rennel Island
1303Rennell Island
7202Republic of Armenia
3301Republic of Belarus
6101Republic of China
9107Republic of Congo
3303Republic of Estonia
2201Republic of Ireland
6203Republic of Korea
3305Republic of Latvia
3206Republic of Macedonia
3208Republic of Moldova
9225Republic of South Africa
4111Republic of South Sudan
7207Republic of Tajikstan
3202Republika Srpska
9218Reunion
3207Rhodes
9232Rhodesia
4215Rize
6105ROC Taiwan
9214Rodrigues
3211Romania
1607Ross Dependency (New Zealand)
1502Rotuma Island
1502Rotumah Island
3211Roumania
9225RSA
9221Ruanda
3211Rumania
3203Rumelia
3308Russia
3308Russian Federation
9221Rwanda
-S
2304Saarland
8433Saba
5203Sabah
3207Salonika
1505Samoa
1506Samoa, American
3207Samos
4215Samsun
3107San Marino
8104Sandwich Island
1304Santo Island
9125Sao Tome and Principe
5203Saratok
5203Sarawak
3104Sardegna
3104Sardinia
2107Sark
8102Saskatchewan
4213Saudi Arabia
1504Savage Island
1505Savai'i
2304Saxe Coburg Gotha
2304Saxe Meiningen
2400Scandinavia
2311Schweiz
2105Scotland
5203Selangor
9126Senegal
3215Serbia
3215Serbia Yugoslavia
3200Serbia and Montenegro
3207Serres
9223Seychelles
9223Seychelles Islands
3200SFR Yugoslavia
3200SFRJ
6101Shanghai
4216Sharjah
2105Shetland Islands
5104Siam
3308Siberia
3104Sicilia
3104Sicily
9127Sierra Leone
7103Sikkim
3307Silesia
5205Singapore
6100Sinitic Asia (includes Mongolia)
8433Sint Eustatius
8435Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
3206Skopje
3206Slav Macedonia
3204Slavania
3204Slavonia
3311Slovak Republic
3311Slovakia
3212Slovania
3212Slovanija
3212Slovenia
3212Slovenija
3311Slovenska Republika
4215Smyrna
1303Solomon Islands
9224Somalia
9224Somaliland
9224Somaliya
5105Son La
9225South Africa
8200South America
8299South America, nec
1101South Australia
3200South Eastern Europe
8299South Georgia
7103South India
6203South Korea
8299South Sandwich Islands
4111South Sudan, Republic of
4111South Sudan
5105South Viet Nam
5105South Vietnam
2106South Wales
9217South West Africa
4217South Yemen
5000South-East Asia
7000Southern and Central Asia
9200Southern and East Africa
9299Southern and East Africa, nec
3000Southern and Eastern Europe
7100Southern Asia
3100Southern Europe
2201Southern Ireland
9232Southern Rhodesia
3108Spain
9112Spanish Guinea
4108Spanish North Africa
4107Spanish Sahara
3215Srbija
7107Sri Lanka
3312SS Ukraina
8431St Barthelemy
8433St Eustatius
9222St Helena
9222St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
8422St Kitts
8422St Kitts and Nevis
8423St Lucia
8432St Martin (French part)
8103St Pierre
8103St Pierre and Miquelon
8428St Thomas
8424St Vincent
8424St Vincent and the Grenadines
1201Stewart Island
1101Stradbroke Island
5200Straits Settlements
9000Sub-Saharan Africa
4105Sudan
4102Suez
2304Suhl
5202Sulawesi
5202Sumatra
5200Sunda Islands
2403Suomi
5202Surabaya
8214Surinam
8214Suriname
9226Swaziland
2407Sweden
2311Switzerland
4214Syria
-T
7207Tadjikistan
7207Tadzhikistan
1302Tagula Island
1503Tahiti
6105Taiwan
7207Tajikistan
7107Tamil Eelam
7103Tamil Nadu
9227Tanganyika
1304Tanna
9227Tanzania
1402Tarawa Island
1101Tas
1101Tasmania
3300Tchecoslovakia
5104Thailand
3206The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
3207Thessalonika
3207Thessaloniki
3200Thrace
1101Thursday Island
6101Tibet
5206Timor
5206Timor-Leste
8425Tobago
1304Toga
9128Togo
1507Tokelau
1508Tonga
1508Tongatapu
5105Tonkin
1101Torres Strait Islands
8427Tortola
7200Transcaucasia
3211Transilvania
4206Transjordan
9225Transkei
9225Transvaal
3211Transylvania
3104Trieste
3207Trikala
8425Trinidad
8425Trinidad and Tobago
4103Tripoli
9222Tristan da Cunha
1302Trobriand Islands
3302Tschechien
1503Tuamotus
4215Tunceli
4106Tunisia
4106Tunisie
7200Turkestan
4215Turkey
7208Turkmen
7208Turkmenistan
8426Turks and Caicos Islands
3104Tuscany
1511Tuvalu
-U
4216UAE
9228Uganda
2100UK
8427UK Virgin Islands
3312Ukraina
3312Ukraine
3312Ukraine USSR
2104Ulster
4211Uman
3104Umbria
4216Umm Al Quwain
4216United Arab Emirates
4000United Arab States
2100United Kingdom
8427United Kingdom Virgin Islands
2100United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man
8104United States
8104United States of America
8428United States Virgin Islands
0000Unknown
9121Upper Senegal
9102Upper Volta
8215Uruguay
9203Urundi
8104US
8428US Virgin Islands
8104USA
4215Usak
0912USSR
7103Uttar Pradesh
7211Uzbek
7211Uzbekistan
-V
3104Valle d'Aosta
1304Vanuatu
3103Vatican City
1508Vava'u
8216Venezuela
8216Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
1101Vic
1101Victoria
2301Vienna
5105Viet Nam
5105Vietnam
8427Virgin Islands, British
8428Virgin Islands, United States
9102Volta
-W
1101WA
1599Wake Island
2106Wales
1512Wallis and Futuna
1402Washington Island
2201Waterford
1101Wednesday Island
4202West Bank
7103West Bengal
2304West Berlin
2304West Germany
8400West Indies
5202West Irian
5203West Malaysia
5202West Papua
5202West Timor
1101Western Australia
2300Western Europe
4107Western Sahara
1505Western Samoa
3301White Russia
2304Wurttemberg
-X
1101Xmas Island
-Y
7103Yanam
7103Yanaon
5101Yangon
3207Yannina
4217Yemen
3200Yugoslavia
3202Yugoslavia Bosnia
3204Yugoslavia Croatia
3206Yugoslavia Macedonia
3215Yugoslavia Serbia
3200Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of
3200Yugoslavija
8102Yukon
-Z
9108Zaire
9231Zambia
9227Zanzibar
9232Zimbabwe
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