__NOTOC__ This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special ...

codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal with imaginary countries used for exercise purposes, and designate large geographical groupings and water bodies (ranging from oceans to rivers). It consists of two-letter codes for geographical entities, four-letter codes for subdivisions, and lists the ISO three-letter codes for reference. The digrams match the FIPS 10-4 codes with a few exceptions. The ninth edition's ratification draft was published on 6 July 2005, with a reply deadline of 6 October 2005. It replaces all two- and four-letter codes with ISO or ISO-like three- and six-letter codes. It is intended as a transitional standard: once all

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...

nations have updated their information systems, a tenth edition will be published. For diplomatic reasons, the country that is now known as

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

was designated as the ''Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'' for a number of years and received a temporary code, FY/FYR, explicitly different from the ISO one, which was 3166 MKD. Since its name change following the 2018 Prespa agreement with

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

, the country is identified with the MK digram and the MKD trigram, but on car license plates, they must be changed to NM or NMK. The Republic of Palau is also often indicated (at least in the United States) as PW. {, class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="text-align: left" !colspan="4" align="center", Water Bodies (9th edition) , - ! Trigram ! Digram ! Entity ! Comment , - , 1A- , , 1A , , North Atlantic Ocean , , , - , 1B- , , 1B , ,

Bay of Biscay The Bay of Biscay ( ) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Point Penmarc'h to the Spanish border, and along the northern coast of Spain, extending westward ...

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Bristol Channel The Bristol Channel (, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon to North Somerset). It extends ...

, , , - , 1D- , , 1D , , Denmark Strait , , , - , 1E- , , 1E , ,

English Channel The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France. It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busi ...

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Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy () is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine. Its tidal range is the highest in the world. The bay was ...

, , , - , 1G- , , 1G , , Gulf of Guinea , , , - , 1H- , , 1H , ,

Hudson Bay Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of Saline water, saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of . It is located north of Ontario, west of Quebec, northeast of Manitoba, and southeast o ...

, , , - , 1I- , , 1I , , Lake Volta , , , - , 1J- , , 1J , ,

Panama Canal The Panama Canal () is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It cuts across the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama, and is a Channel (geography), conduit for maritime trade between th ...

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Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

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Labrador Sea The Labrador Sea (; ) is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland. The sea is flanked by continental shelf, continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast. It connects to the north with Baffi ...

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Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico () is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southw ...

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North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. A sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Se ...

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Niger River The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Nige ...

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Baffin Bay Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; ; ; ), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a s ...

, , , - , 1Q- , , 1Q , , St. George's Channel , , , - , 1R- , , 1R , ,

Irish Sea The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Ch ...

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Skagerrak The Skagerrak (; , , ) is a strait running between the North Jutlandic Island of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea. The Skagerrak contains some of the busiest shipping ...

, , , - , 1T- , , 1T , , Gulf of St. Lawrence , , , - , 1U- , , 1U , , Hudson Strait , , , - , 1V- , , 1V , ,

Davis Strait The Davis Strait (Danish language, Danish: ''Davisstrædet'') is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The ...

, , , - , 1W- , , 1W , , Magdalena River , , , - , 1X- , , 1X , ,

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...

, , , - , 1Y- , , 1Y , , Gulf of Cadiz , , , - , 1Z- , , 1Z , , Cantabrian Sea , , , - , 2A- , , 2A , ,

South Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...

, , , - , 2B- , , 2B , , Amazon River , , , - , 2C- , , 2C , ,

Congo River The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world list of rivers by discharge, by discharge volume, following the Amazon Ri ...

, , , - , 2D- , , 2D , , Drake Passage , , , - , 2E- , , 2E , , Gulf of Campecha , , Gulf of Campeche (typo) , - , 2F- , , 2F , ,

Gulf of Fonseca The Gulf of Fonseca (; ), a part of the Pacific Ocean, is a gulf in Central America, bordering El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The waters of the gulf are shared among all three countries. History Fonseca Bay was discovered by European ...

, , , - , 2G- , , 2G , , Lake Granada , ,

Lake Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada (, , or ) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin and with an area of , it is the largest fresh water lake in Central America, the List of lakes by area, 19th largest lake in the world (by are ...

, - , 2H- , , 2H , , Gulf of Honduras , , , - , 2I- , , 2I , ,

Río de la Plata The Río de la Plata (; ), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda, Colonia, Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and ...

Bay , , , - , 2J- , , 2J , , Gulf of San Gorge , , Golfo San Jorge (typo) , - , 2K- , , 2K , , Sargasso Sea , , , - , 2L- , , 2L , , Magellan Strait , , , - , 2M- , , 2M , , Gulf of San Matias , , San Matias Gulf , - , 2P- , , 2P , , Putymayo River , , Putumayo River (typo) , - , 2Q- , , 2Q , ,

Orinoco River The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers approximately 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and 35% in Colombia. It is the List of rivers by discharge, f ...

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, , , - , 2S- , , 2S , , Scotia Sea , , , - , 2W- , , 2W , ,

Weddell Sea The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha C ...

, , , - , 2X- , , 2X , , La Pérouse Strait , , , - , 2Y- , , 2Y , , Salomon Sea , , Solomon Sea (typo) , - , 2Z- , , 2Z , , Yucátan Sea , , , - , 31- , , 31 , , Tonle Sap , , , - , 32- , , 32 , , Song Hua Giang , , Bassac (Hua Giang) River , - , 33- , , 33 , , Chhâk Kâmpóng Saôm , , Kompong Som Bay, Cambodi
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, - , 34- , , 34 , , Chhâk Veal Renh , , Veal Renh Bay, Cambodi
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, - , 35- , , 35 , , Chhâk Kaôh Kŏng , , Kaôh Kŏng Bay, Cambodia , - , 36- , , 36 , , Huang Pu (Yellow River) , , , - , 37- , , 37 , , Yangtze River , , , - , 38- , , 38 , , Hang Chou Wan , , Kwang-Chou-Wan , - , 39- , , 39 , , Sunda Strait , , , - , 3A- , , 3A , ,

North Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

, , , - , 3B- , , 3B , , Sakhalinskiy Zaliv , , Sakhalin Gulf/Bay/Bight , - , 3C- , , 3C , , Celebes Sea , , , - , 3D- , , 3D , , Tatar Strait , , , - , 3E- , , 3E , ,

East China Sea The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. China names the body of water along its eastern coast as "East Sea" (, ) due to direction, the name of "East China Sea" is otherwise ...

, , , - , 3F- , , 3F , , Formosa Strait , , , - , 3G- , , 3G , , Gulf of Tonkin , , , - , 3H- , , 3H , , Halmahera Sea , , , - , 3I- , , 3I , , Luzon Strait , , , - , 3J- , , 3J , ,

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it ...

, , , - , 3K- , , 3K , , Zaliv Shelikhova , , Shelikhova Gulf , - , 3L- , , 3L , , Gulf of California , , , - , 3M- , , 3M , ,

Molucca Sea The Molucca Sea (Indonesian language, Indonesian: ''Laut Maluku'') is located in the western Pacific Ocean, around the vicinity of Indonesia, specifically bordered by the Indonesian Islands of Sulawesi, Celebes (Sulawesi) to the west, Halmahera t ...

, , , - , 3N- , , 3N , , Inland Sea , , , - , 3O- , , 3O , , Amur River , , , - , 3P- , , 3P , , Philippine Sea , , , - , 3Q- , , 3Q , , Sea of Okhotsk , , , - , 3R- , , 3R , , Korea Bay , , , - , 3S- , , 3S , ,

Sulu Sea The Sulu Sea (; Tausug: ''Dagat sin Sūg''; ; ) is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu Archipela ...

, , , - , 3T- , , 3T , , Gulf of Thailand , , , - , 3U- , , 3U , ,

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan island, Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luz ...

, , , - , 3V- , , 3V , , Teluk Tomini , ,

Gulf of Tomini The Gulf of Tomini (), also known as the Bay of Tomini, is the equatorial gulf which separates the Minahassa (Northern) and East Peninsulas of the island of Sulawesi (Celebes) in Indonesia. The Togian Islands lie near its center. To the east ...

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Mekong River The Mekong or Mekong River ( , ) is a transboundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's List of rivers by length, twelfth-longest river and List of longest rivers of Asia, the third-longest in Asia with an estimated l ...

, , , - , 3X- , , 3X , , Bo Hai , , , - , 3Y- , , 3Y , , Yellow Sea , , , - , 3Z- , , 3Z , , Singapore Strait , , , - , 4A- , , 4A , , South Pacific Ocean , , , - , 4B- , , 4B , ,

Banda Sea The Banda Sea (, , ) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halmahera Sea, Halmahera and Ceram Seas. It is about ...

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Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down t ...

, , , - , 4D- , , 4D , , Amundsen Sea , , , - , 4E- , , 4E , , Teluk Bone , , Gulf of Bone/Boni , - , 4F- , , 4F , , Flores Sea , , , - , 4G- , , 4G , , Bellingshausen Sea , , , - , 4I- , , 4I , ,

Lake Titicaca Lake Titicaca (; ; ) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. Titicaca is the largest lake in South America, both in terms of the volume of ...

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Java Sea The Java Sea (, ) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. Karimata Strait to its northwest links it to the South Ch ...

, , , - , 4K- , , 4K , , Bismarck Sea , , , - , 4L- , , 4L , , Bali Sea , , , - , 4M- , , 4M , , Makassar Strait , , , - , 4N- , , 4N , , Napo River , , , - , 4O- , , 4O , ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

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Gulf of Carpentaria The Gulf of Carpentaria is a sea off the northern coast of Australia. It is enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the eastern Arafura Sea, which separates Australia and New Guinea. The northern boundary ...

, , , - , 4Q- , , 4Q , , Ceram Sea , , , - , 4R- , , 4R , ,

Ross Sea The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who ...

, , , - , 4S- , , 4S , , Solomon Sea , , , - , 4T- , , 4T , ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 wa ...

, , , - , 4U- , , 4U , , Arafura Sea , , , - , 4Z- , , 4Z , , Antarctic Ocean , , , - , 5A- , , 5A , ,

Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. It spans an area of approximately and is the coldest of the world's oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, ...

, , , - , 5B- , , 5B , , Barents Sea , , , - , 5C- , , 5C , , Chukshi Sea , , Chukchi Sea , - , 5D- , , 5D , ,

Bering Sea The Bering Sea ( , ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre, p=ˈbʲerʲɪnɡəvə ˈmorʲe) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasse ...

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Alaska Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ...

/ BC Coastal Waters , , , - , 5F- , , 5F , , Gulf of Alaska , , , - , 5G- , , 5G , , Greenland Sea , , , - , 5K- , , 5K , , Kara Sea , , , - , 5L- , , 5L , , Lincoln Sea , , , - , 5N- , , 5N , , Norwegian Sea , , , - , 5P- , , 5P , , Laptev Sea , , , - , 5R- , , 5R , , Bering Strait , , , - , 5S- , , 5S , , East Siberian Sea , , , - , 5T- , , 5T , , Northwest Passage , , , - , 5U- , , 5U , ,

Beaufort Sea The Beaufort Sea ( ; ) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, and west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The sea is named after Sir Francis Beaufort, a Hydrography, hydrographer. T ...

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White Sea The White Sea (; Karelian language, Karelian and ; ) is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola Peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the nort ...

, , , - , 5Y- , , 5Y , , Anadyrskiy Zaliv , , Anadyrskiy Gulf , - , 62- , , 62 , , Strait of Hormuz , , , - , 6A- , , 6A , ,

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...

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Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent and the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese peninsula, located below the Bengal region. Many South Asian and Southe ...

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Gulf of Aden The Gulf of Aden (; ) is a deepwater gulf of the Indian Ocean between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channel, the Socotra Archipelago, Puntland in Somalia and Somaliland to the south. ...

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Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

, , , - , 6F- , , 6F , , Bass Strait , , , - , 6G- , , 6G , ,

Great Australian Bight The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight (geography), bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern Coast, coastline of mainland Australia. There are two definitions for its extent—one by the Internation ...

, , , - , 6H- , , 6H , , Gulf of Mannar , , , - , 6I- , , 6I , ,

Lake Malawi Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, () is an African Great Lakes, African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is ...

, , , - , 6J- , , 6J , , Ussuri River , , , - , 6K- , , 6K , , Zambezi River , , , - , 6L- , , 6L , , Laccadive Sea , , , - , 6M- , , 6M , , Gulf of Oman , , , - , 6N- , , 6N , ,

Andaman Sea The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated f ...

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Limpopo River The Limpopo River () rises in South Africa and flows generally eastward through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. The term Limpopo is derived from Rivombo (Livombo/Lebombo), a group of Tsonga settlers led by Hosi Rivombo who settled in the mou ...

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Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, is a Mediterranean seas, mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.Un ...

, , , - , 6Q- , , 6Q , , Gulf of Aqaba , , , - , 6R- , , 6R , ,

Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea () is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and ...

, , , - , 6S- , , 6S , , Savu Sea , , , - , 6T- , , 6T , ,

Timor Sea The Timor Sea (, , or ) is a relatively shallow sea in the Indian Ocean bounded to the north by the island of Timor with Timor-Leste to the north, Indonesia to the northwest, Arafura Sea to the east, and to the south by Australia. The Sunda Tr ...

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Suez Canal The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest ...

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Lake Victoria Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropics, tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface are ...

, , , - , 6W- , , 6W , , Gulf of Suez , , , - , 6X- , , 6X , , Lake Nyasa , , , - , 6Y- , , 6Y , ,

Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika ( ; ) is an African Great Lakes, African Great Lake. It is the world's List of lakes by volume, second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the List of lakes by depth, second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. ...

, , , - , 6Z- , , 6Z , , Mozambique Channel , , , - , 7B- , , 7B , ,

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

, , , - , 7E- , , 7E , , German Bight , , , - , 7F- , , 7F , ,

Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland (; ; ; ) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and Estonia to the south, to Saint Petersburg—the second largest city of Russia—to the east, where the river Neva drains into it. ...

, , , - , 7G- , , 7G , , Gdansk Bay , , , - , 7H- , , 7H , , Gulf of Riga , , , - , 7K- , , 7K , ,

Kattegat The Kattegat (; ; ) is a sea area bounded by the peninsula of Jutland in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the Swedish provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Scania in Swede ...

, , , - , 7L- , , 7L , , Leba River , , , - , 7M- , , 7M , , Baltic Approaches , , , - , 7P- , , 7P , , Pomeranian Bay , , , - , 7T- , , 7T , ,

Gulf of Bothnia The Gulf of Bothnia (; ; ) is divided into the Bothnian Bay and the Bothnian Sea, and it is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland's west coast ( East Bothnia) and the northern part of Sweden's east coast ( West Bothnia an ...

, , , - , 81- , , 81 , , Gulf of Sirte , , , - , 82- , , 82 , , Naama Bay , ,

Sharm el-Sheikh Sharm El Sheikh (, , literally "bay of the Sheikh"), alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el Sheikh, or Sharm El-Sheikh, is an Egyptian city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip alo ...

's Naama Bay?? , - , 83- , , 83 , , Gulf of Hammamet , , , - , 84- , , 84 , , Gulf of Sollum , , Khalîg el Salûm , - , 89- , , 89 , ,

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

, , , - , 8A- , , 8A , , Danube River , , , - , 8B- , , 8B , ,

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

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Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, ...

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Adriatic Sea The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Se ...

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Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...

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Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn con ...

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, Central , , , - , 8I- , , 8I , , Lake Tiberias , , , - , 8J- , , 8J , , Balearic Sea , , , - , 8K- , , 8K , , Kotor Bay , , , - , 8L- , , 8L , , Ligurian Sea , , , - , 8M- , , 8M , ,

Sea of Marmara The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea entirely within the borders of Turkey. It links the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea via the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, separating Turkey's E ...

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Lake Ohrid Lake Ohrid is a lake which straddles the mountainous border between the southwestern part of North Macedonia and eastern Albania. It is one of Europe's deepest and oldest lakes, with a unique aquatic ecosystem of worldwide importance, with more th ...

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Tyrrhenian Sea The Tyrrhenian Sea (, ; or ) , , , , is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenians, Tyrrhenian people identified with the Etruscans of Italy. Geography The sea is bounded by the islands of C ...

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Dardanelles The Dardanelles ( ; ; ), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula) and in classical antiquity as the Hellespont ( ; ), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey th ...

, - , 8V- , , 8V , , Vlorë Bay , , Bay of

Vlorë Vlorë ( ; ; sq-definite, Vlora) is the List of cities and towns in Albania, third most populous city of Albania and seat of Vlorë County and Vlorë Municipality. Located in southwestern Albania, Vlorë sprawls on the Bay of Vlorë and is surr ...

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, Western , , , - , 8X- , , 8X , , Gulf of Lion , , , - , 8Y- , , 8Y , , Alboran Sea , , , - , 8Z- , , 8Z , ,

Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov is an inland Continental shelf#Shelf seas, shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about ) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea. The sea is bounded by Ru ...

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Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...

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Lake Erie Lake Erie ( ) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest avera ...

, , , - , 9H- , , 9H , , Lake Huron , , , - , 9L- , , 9L , , St. Lawrence Seaway , , , - , 9M- , , 9M , ,

Lake Michigan Lake Michigan ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and depth () after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the ...

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Lake Ontario Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. The Canada–United Sta ...

, , , - , 9S- , , 9S , , Lake Superior , , , - , 9W- , , 9W , ,

Lake Winnipeg Lake Winnipeg () is a very large, relatively shallow lake in North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Its southern end is about north of the city of Winnipeg. Lake Winnipeg is Canada's sixth-largest freshwater lake and the third- ...

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Great Lakes The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Lake Superior, Superior, Lake Michigan, Michigan, Lake Huron, H ...

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International Waters The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed region ...

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* NATO STANAG 1059 INT (Ed. 7, 2000) ''Distinguishing Letters for Geographical Entities for Use in NATO'' * NATO STANAG 1059 INT (Ed. 8, 2003) ''Letter Codes for Geographical Entities'' * NATO STANAG 1059 INT (Ed. 9 Ratification Draft, 2005) ''Codes for Geographical Entities'' * ISO Online Browsing Platform

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External links

''History of NATO – the Atlantic Alliance''
– UK Government site
''UK MOD Ontology Demonstrator''
– integrates NATO STANAG 1059 codes with ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 codes *NATO Allied Committee 135 – The Group of National Directors on Codification

* ISO Online Browsing Platform (OBP)

NATO Standardization Agreements, Country codes NATO country codes

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