---
id: "ioc_country_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ioc_country_code"
---

# IOC country code (`ioc_country_code`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Three-letter code of a National Olympic Committee assigned by the International Olympic Committee. It is used in sports results and often differs from ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, such as GER for Germany.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{3}$
```

## Examples

- `ASA` — American Samoa
- `ITA` — Italy
- `INA` — Indonesia

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P984`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOC_country_codes>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P984>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ioc_country_code.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/geo/ioc_country_code.yaml>