ISO 3166 countries by region — AMER, EMEA & APAC

countries.md

Country	ISO 3166	Region
Afghanistan	AF	EMEA
Åland Islands	AX	EMEA
Albania	AL	EMEA
Algeria	DZ	EMEA
American Samoa	AS	APAC
Andorra	AD	EMEA
Angola	AO	EMEA
Anguilla	AI	AMER
Antarctica	AQ	APAC
Antigua and Barbuda	AG	AMER
Argentina	AR	AMER
Armenia	AM	EMEA
Aruba	AW	AMER
Australia	AU	APAC
Austria	AT	EMEA
Azerbaijan	AZ	EMEA
Bahamas	BS	AMER
Bahrain	BH	EMEA
Bangladesh	BD	APAC
Barbados	BB	AMER
Belarus	BY	EMEA
Belgium	BE	EMEA
Belize	BZ	AMER
Benin	BJ	EMEA
Bermuda	BM	AMER
Bhutan	BT	APAC
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	BO	AMER
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	BQ	AMER
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA	EMEA
Botswana	BW	EMEA
Bouvet Island	BV	EMEA
Brazil	BR	AMER
British Indian Ocean Territory	IO	APAC
Brunei Darussalam	BN	APAC
Bulgaria	BG	EMEA
Burkina Faso	BF	EMEA
Burundi	BI	EMEA
Cambodia	KH	APAC
Cameroon	CM	EMEA
Canada	CA	AMER
Cabo Verde	CV	EMEA
Cayman Islands	KY	AMER
Central African Republic	CF	EMEA
Chad	TD	EMEA
Chile	CL	AMER
China	CN	APAC
Christmas Island	CX	APAC
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	CC	APAC
Colombia	CO	AMER
Comoros	KM	EMEA
Congo (Democratic Republic of the)	CD	EMEA
Congo	CG	EMEA
Cook Islands	CK	APAC
Costa Rica	CR	AMER
Côte d’Ivoire	CI	EMEA
Croatia	HR	EMEA
Cuba	CU	AMER
Curaçao	CW	AMER
Cyprus	CY	EMEA
Czech Republic	CZ	EMEA
Denmark	DK	EMEA
Djibouti	DJ	EMEA
Dominica	DM	AMER
Dominican Republic	DO	AMER
Ecuador	EC	AMER
Egypt	EG	EMEA
El Salvador	SV	AMER
Equatorial Guinea	GQ	EMEA
Eritrea	ER	EMEA
Estonia	EE	EMEA
Ethiopia	ET	EMEA
Falkland Islands	FK	EMEA
Faroe Islands	FO	EMEA
Fiji	FJ	APAC
Finland	FI	EMEA
France	FR	EMEA
French Guiana	GF	AMER
French Polynesia	PF	APAC
French Southern Territories	TF	APAC
Gabon	GA	EMEA
Gambia	GM	EMEA
Georgia	GE	EMEA
Germany	DE	EMEA
Ghana	GH	EMEA
Gibraltar	GI	EMEA
Greece	GR	EMEA
Greenland	GL	EMEA
Grenada	GD	AMER
Guadeloupe	GP	AMER
Guam	GU	APAC
Guatemala	GT	AMER
Guernsey	GG	EMEA
Guinea	GN	EMEA
Guinea-Bissau	GW	EMEA
Guyana	GY	AMER
Haiti	HT	AMER
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	HM	APAC
Vatican City	VA	EMEA
Honduras	HN	AMER
Hong Kong	HK	APAC
Hungary	HU	EMEA
Iceland	IS	EMEA
India	IN	APAC
Indonesia	ID	APAC
Iran	IR	EMEA
Iraq	IQ	EMEA
Ireland	IE	EMEA
Isle of Man	IM	EMEA
Israel	IL	EMEA
Italy	IT	EMEA
Jamaica	JM	AMER
Japan	JP	APAC
Jersey	JE	EMEA
Jordan	JO	EMEA
Kazakhstan	KZ	EMEA
Kenya	KE	EMEA
Kiribati	KI	APAC
Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of)	KV	APAC
Korea (Republic of)	KR	APAC
Kuwait	KW	EMEA
Kyrgyzstan	KG	APAC
Laos	LA	APAC
Latvia	LV	EMEA
Lebanon	LB	EMEA
Lesotho	LS	EMEA
Liberia	LR	EMEA
Libya	LY	EMEA
Liechtenstein	LI	EMEA
Lithuania	LT	EMEA
Luxembourg	LU	EMEA
Macao	MO	APAC
Macedonia	MK	EMEA
Madagascar	MG	EMEA
Malawi	MW	EMEA
Malaysia	MY	APAC
Maldives	MV	APAC
Mali	ML	EMEA
Malta	MT	EMEA
Marshall Islands	MH	APAC
Martinique	MQ	AMER
Mauritania	MR	EMEA
Mauritius	MU	EMEA
Mayotte	YT	EMEA
Mexico	MX	AMER
Micronesia	FM	APAC
Moldova	MD	EMEA
Monaco	MC	EMEA
Mongolia	MN	APAC
Montenegro	ME	EMEA
Montserrat	MS	AMER
Morocco	MA	EMEA
Mozambique	MZ	EMEA
Myanmar	MM	APAC
Namibia	NA	EMEA
Nauru	NR	APAC
Nepal	NP	APAC
Netherlands	NL	EMEA
New Caledonia	NC	APAC
New Zealand	NZ	APAC
Nicaragua	NI	AMER
Niger	NE	EMEA
Nigeria	NG	EMEA
Niue	NU	APAC
Norfolk Island	NF	APAC
Northern Mariana Islands	MP	APAC
Norway	NO	EMEA
Oman	OM	EMEA
Pakistan	PK	APAC
Palau	PW	APAC
Palestine	PS	EMEA
Panama	PA	AMER
Papua New Guinea	PG	APAC
Paraguay	PY	AMER
Peru	PE	AMER
Philippines	PH	APAC
Pitcairn	PN	APAC
Poland	PL	EMEA
Portugal	PT	EMEA
Puerto Rico	PR	AMER
Qatar	QA	EMEA
Réunion	RE	EMEA
Romania	RO	EMEA
Russia	RU	EMEA
Rwanda	RW	EMEA
Saint Barthélemy	BL	AMER
Saint Helena	SH	EMEA
Saint Kitts And Nevis	KN	AMER
Saint Lucia	LC	AMER
Saint Martin	MF	AMER
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	PM	AMER
Saint Vincent and The Grenadines	VC	AMER
Samoa	WS	APAC
San Marino	SM	EMEA
Sao Tome and Principe	ST	EMEA
Saudi Arabia	SA	EMEA
Senegal	SN	EMEA
Serbia	RS	EMEA
Seychelles	SC	EMEA
Sierra Leone	SL	EMEA
Singapore	SG	APAC
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	SX	AMER
Slovakia	SK	EMEA
Slovenia	SI	EMEA
Solomon Islands	SB	APAC
Somalia	SO	EMEA
South Africa	ZA	EMEA
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	GS	EMEA
South Sudan	SS	EMEA
Spain	ES	EMEA
Sri Lanka	LK	APAC
Sudan	SD	EMEA
Suriname	SR	AMER
Svalbard	SJ	EMEA
Swaziland	SZ	EMEA
Sweden	SE	EMEA
Switzerland	CH	EMEA
Syria	SY	EMEA
Taiwan	TW	APAC
Tajikistan	TJ	APAC
Tanzania	TZ	EMEA
Thailand	TH	APAC
Timor-Leste	TL	APAC
Togo	TG	EMEA
Tokelau	TK	APAC
Tonga	TO	APAC
Trinidad and Tobago	TT	AMER
Tunisia	TN	EMEA
Turkey	TR	EMEA
Turkmenistan	TM	APAC
Turks and Caicos Islands	TC	AMER
Tuvalu	TV	APAC
Uganda	UG	EMEA
Ukraine	UA	EMEA
United Arab Emirates	AE	EMEA
United Kingdom	GB	EMEA
United States Minor Outlying Islands	UM	APAC
United States of America	US	AMER
Uruguay	UY	AMER
Uzbekistan	UZ	APAC
Vanuatu	VU	APAC
Venezuela	VE	AMER
Viet Nam	VN	APAC
Virgin Islands (British)	VG	AMER
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	VI	AMER
Wallis and Futuna	WF	APAC
Western Sahara	EH	EMEA
Yemen	YE	EMEA
Zambia	ZM	EMEA
Zimbabwe	ZW	EMEA

Thank you very much for this list!

Thanks for the list.
Is there any known standard that governs which countries fall under a region?
Or is it your best understanding of how countries are divided upon regions?

Thank you! could you please fix the designation for two Koreas - I believe that they belong to APAC region, and not EMEA.

Couple of functions to convert the table to JS objects if you need to consume

const regionToCountriesMap = () => {
    return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('tr')).filter((tr) => {
        return Array.from(tr.children).length === 3;
    }).reduce((carry, tr) => {
        const tds = tr.children;
        const countryName = tds[0].innerText;
        const countryCode = tds[1].innerText;
        const regionCode = tds[2].innerText;

        if (!Array.isArray(carry[regionCode])) {
            carry[regionCode] = [];
        }
        carry[regionCode].push([countryName, countryCode]);
        return carry;
    }, {});
};

const countryCodeToRegionMap = () => {
    return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('tr')).filter((tr) => {
        return Array.from(tr.children).length === 3;
    }).reduce((carry, tr) => {
        const tds = tr.children;
        const countryName = tds[0].innerText;
        const countryCode = tds[1].innerText;
        const regionCode = tds[2].innerText;

        carry[countryCode] = regionCode;
        return carry;
    }, {});
};

Along with the errors in the two Korea entries as @srdanz mentioned, "South Sudan" should be EMEA, not APAC.

Thank you!

Thank you for the list! I needed to add CS for the Canary Islands, and ZJ for Saint Helier, both EMEA

@k3coco, "Canary Islands" should have the code "IC". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#User-assigned_code_elements

Thank you guys ... gods!!!

Using the function from @evanlouie

const json = regionToCountriesMap();
JSON.stringify(json.APAC.map((arr) => ({name: arr[0], id: arr[1]})))

amer.json

[
  {
    "name":"Anguilla",
    "id":"AI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Antigua and Barbuda",
    "id":"AG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Argentina",
    "id":"AR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Aruba",
    "id":"AW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bahamas",
    "id":"BS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Barbados",
    "id":"BB"
  },
  {
    "name":"Belize",
    "id":"BZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bermuda",
    "id":"BM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bolivia (Plurinational State of)",
    "id":"BO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba",
    "id":"BQ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Brazil",
    "id":"BR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Canada",
    "id":"CA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cayman Islands",
    "id":"KY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Chile",
    "id":"CL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Colombia",
    "id":"CO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Costa Rica",
    "id":"CR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cuba",
    "id":"CU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Curaçao",
    "id":"CW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Dominica",
    "id":"DM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Dominican Republic",
    "id":"DO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Ecuador",
    "id":"EC"
  },
  {
    "name":"El Salvador",
    "id":"SV"
  },
  {
    "name":"French Guiana",
    "id":"GF"
  },
  {
    "name":"Grenada",
    "id":"GD"
  },
  {
    "name":"Guadeloupe",
    "id":"GP"
  },
  {
    "name":"Guatemala",
    "id":"GT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Guyana",
    "id":"GY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Haiti",
    "id":"HT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Honduras",
    "id":"HN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Jamaica",
    "id":"JM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Martinique",
    "id":"MQ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Mexico",
    "id":"MX"
  },
  {
    "name":"Montserrat",
    "id":"MS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Nicaragua",
    "id":"NI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Panama",
    "id":"PA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Paraguay",
    "id":"PY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Peru",
    "id":"PE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Puerto Rico",
    "id":"PR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saint Barthélemy",
    "id":"BL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saint Kitts And Nevis",
    "id":"KN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saint Lucia",
    "id":"LC"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saint Martin",
    "id":"MF"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saint Pierre and Miquelon",
    "id":"PM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saint Vincent and The Grenadines",
    "id":"VC"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sint Maarten (Dutch part)",
    "id":"SX"
  },
  {
    "name":"Suriname",
    "id":"SR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Trinidad and Tobago",
    "id":"TT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Turks and Caicos Islands",
    "id":"TC"
  },
  {
    "name":"United States",
    "id":"US"
  },
  {
    "name":"Uruguay",
    "id":"UY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Venezuela",
    "id":"VE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Virgin Islands (British)",
    "id":"VG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Virgin Islands (U.S.)",
    "id":"VI"
  }
]

apac.json

[
  {
    "name":"American Samoa",
    "id":"AS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Antarctica",
    "id":"AQ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Australia",
    "id":"AU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bangladesh",
    "id":"BD"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bhutan",
    "id":"BT"
  },
  {
    "name":"British Indian Ocean Territory",
    "id":"IO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Brunei Darussalam",
    "id":"BN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cambodia",
    "id":"KH"
  },
  {
    "name":"China",
    "id":"CN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Christmas Island",
    "id":"CX"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
    "id":"CC"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cook Islands",
    "id":"CK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Fiji",
    "id":"FJ"
  },
  {
    "name":"French Polynesia",
    "id":"PF"
  },
  {
    "name":"French Southern Territories",
    "id":"TF"
  },
  {
    "name":"Guam",
    "id":"GU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Heard Island and McDonald Islands",
    "id":"HM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Hong Kong",
    "id":"HK"
  },
  {
    "name":"India",
    "id":"IN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Indonesia",
    "id":"ID"
  },
  {
    "name":"Japan",
    "id":"JP"
  },
  {
    "name":"Kiribati",
    "id":"KI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Kyrgyzstan",
    "id":"KG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Laos",
    "id":"LA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Macao",
    "id":"MO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Malaysia",
    "id":"MY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Maldives",
    "id":"MV"
  },
  {
    "name":"Marshall Islands",
    "id":"MH"
  },
  {
    "name":"Micronesia",
    "id":"FM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Mongolia",
    "id":"MN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Myanmar",
    "id":"MM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Nauru",
    "id":"NR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Nepal",
    "id":"NP"
  },
  {
    "name":"New Caledonia",
    "id":"NC"
  },
  {
    "name":"New Zealand",
    "id":"NZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Niue",
    "id":"NU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Norfolk Island",
    "id":"NF"
  },
  {
    "name":"Northern Mariana Islands",
    "id":"MP"
  },
  {
    "name":"Pakistan",
    "id":"PK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Palau",
    "id":"PW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Papua New Guinea",
    "id":"PG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Philippines",
    "id":"PH"
  },
  {
    "name":"Pitcairn",
    "id":"PN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Samoa",
    "id":"WS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Singapore",
    "id":"SG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Solomon Islands",
    "id":"SB"
  },
  {
    "name":"South Sudan",
    "id":"SS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sri Lanka",
    "id":"LK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Taiwan",
    "id":"TW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Tajikistan",
    "id":"TJ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Thailand",
    "id":"TH"
  },
  {
    "name":"Timor-Leste",
    "id":"TL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Tokelau",
    "id":"TK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Tonga",
    "id":"TO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Turkmenistan",
    "id":"TM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Tuvalu",
    "id":"TV"
  },
  {
    "name":"United States Minor Outlying Islands",
    "id":"UM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Uzbekistan",
    "id":"UZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Vanuatu",
    "id":"VU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Viet Nam",
    "id":"VN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Wallis and Futuna",
    "id":"WF"
  }
]

emea.json

[
  {
    "name":"Afghanistan",
    "id":"AF"
  },
  {
    "name":"Åland Islands",
    "id":"AX"
  },
  {
    "name":"Albania",
    "id":"AL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Algeria",
    "id":"DZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Andorra",
    "id":"AD"
  },
  {
    "name":"Angola",
    "id":"AO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Armenia",
    "id":"AM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Austria",
    "id":"AT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Azerbaijan",
    "id":"AZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bahrain",
    "id":"BH"
  },
  {
    "name":"Belarus",
    "id":"BY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Belgium",
    "id":"BE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Benin",
    "id":"BJ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bosnia and Herzegovina",
    "id":"BA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Botswana",
    "id":"BW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bouvet Island",
    "id":"BV"
  },
  {
    "name":"Bulgaria",
    "id":"BG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Burkina Faso",
    "id":"BF"
  },
  {
    "name":"Burundi",
    "id":"BI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cameroon",
    "id":"CM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cabo Verde",
    "id":"CV"
  },
  {
    "name":"Central African Republic",
    "id":"CF"
  },
  {
    "name":"Chad",
    "id":"TD"
  },
  {
    "name":"Comoros",
    "id":"KM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Congo (Democratic Republic of the)",
    "id":"CD"
  },
  {
    "name":"Congo",
    "id":"CG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Côte d’Ivoire",
    "id":"CI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Croatia",
    "id":"HR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Cyprus",
    "id":"CY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Czech Republic",
    "id":"CZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Denmark",
    "id":"DK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Djibouti",
    "id":"DJ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Egypt",
    "id":"EG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Equatorial Guinea",
    "id":"GQ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Eritrea",
    "id":"ER"
  },
  {
    "name":"Estonia",
    "id":"EE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Ethiopia",
    "id":"ET"
  },
  {
    "name":"Falkland Islands",
    "id":"FK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Faroe Islands",
    "id":"FO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Finland",
    "id":"FI"
  },
  {
    "name":"France",
    "id":"FR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Gabon",
    "id":"GA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Gambia",
    "id":"GM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Georgia",
    "id":"GE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Germany",
    "id":"DE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Ghana",
    "id":"GH"
  },
  {
    "name":"Gibraltar",
    "id":"GI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Greece",
    "id":"GR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Greenland",
    "id":"GL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Guernsey",
    "id":"GG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Guinea",
    "id":"GN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Guinea-Bissau",
    "id":"GW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Vatican City",
    "id":"VA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Hungary",
    "id":"HU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Iceland",
    "id":"IS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Iran",
    "id":"IR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Iraq",
    "id":"IQ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Ireland",
    "id":"IE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Isle of Man",
    "id":"IM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Israel",
    "id":"IL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Italy",
    "id":"IT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Jersey",
    "id":"JE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Jordan",
    "id":"JO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Kazakhstan",
    "id":"KZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Kenya",
    "id":"KE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of)",
    "id":"KV"
  },
  {
    "name":"Korea (Republic of)",
    "id":"KR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Kuwait",
    "id":"KW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Latvia",
    "id":"LV"
  },
  {
    "name":"Lebanon",
    "id":"LB"
  },
  {
    "name":"Lesotho",
    "id":"LS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Liberia",
    "id":"LR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Libya",
    "id":"LY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Liechtenstein",
    "id":"LI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Lithuania",
    "id":"LT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Luxembourg",
    "id":"LU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Macedonia",
    "id":"MK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Madagascar",
    "id":"MG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Malawi",
    "id":"MW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Mali",
    "id":"ML"
  },
  {
    "name":"Malta",
    "id":"MT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Mauritania",
    "id":"MR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Mauritius",
    "id":"MU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Mayotte",
    "id":"YT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Moldova",
    "id":"MD"
  },
  {
    "name":"Monaco",
    "id":"MC"
  },
  {
    "name":"Montenegro",
    "id":"ME"
  },
  {
    "name":"Morocco",
    "id":"MA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Mozambique",
    "id":"MZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Namibia",
    "id":"NA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Netherlands",
    "id":"NL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Niger",
    "id":"NE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Nigeria",
    "id":"NG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Norway",
    "id":"NO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Oman",
    "id":"OM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Palestine",
    "id":"PS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Poland",
    "id":"PL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Portugal",
    "id":"PT"
  },
  {
    "name":"Qatar",
    "id":"QA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Réunion",
    "id":"RE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Romania",
    "id":"RO"
  },
  {
    "name":"Russia",
    "id":"RU"
  },
  {
    "name":"Rwanda",
    "id":"RW"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saint Helena",
    "id":"SH"
  },
  {
    "name":"San Marino",
    "id":"SM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sao Tome and Principe",
    "id":"ST"
  },
  {
    "name":"Saudi Arabia",
    "id":"SA"
  },
  {
    "name":"Senegal",
    "id":"SN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Serbia",
    "id":"RS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Seychelles",
    "id":"SC"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sierra Leone",
    "id":"SL"
  },
  {
    "name":"Slovakia",
    "id":"SK"
  },
  {
    "name":"Slovenia",
    "id":"SI"
  },
  {
    "name":"Somalia",
    "id":"SO"
  },
  {
    "name":"South Africa",
    "id":"ZA"
  },
  {
    "name":"South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands",
    "id":"GS"
  },
  {
    "name":"Spain",
    "id":"ES"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sudan",
    "id":"SD"
  },
  {
    "name":"Svalbard",
    "id":"SJ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Swaziland",
    "id":"SZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sweden",
    "id":"SE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Switzerland",
    "id":"CH"
  },
  {
    "name":"Syria",
    "id":"SY"
  },
  {
    "name":"Tanzania",
    "id":"TZ"
  },
  {
    "name":"Togo",
    "id":"TG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Tunisia",
    "id":"TN"
  },
  {
    "name":"Turkey",
    "id":"TR"
  },
  {
    "name":"Uganda",
    "id":"UG"
  },
  {
    "name":"Ukraine",
    "id":"UA"
  },
  {
    "name":"United Arab Emirates",
    "id":"AE"
  },
  {
    "name":"United Kingdom",
    "id":"GB"
  },
  {
    "name":"Western Sahara",
    "id":"EH"
  },
  {
    "name":"Yemen",
    "id":"YE"
  },
  {
    "name":"Zambia",
    "id":"ZM"
  },
  {
    "name":"Zimbabwe",
    "id":"ZW"
  }
]

Thanks for the list.
Is there any known standard that governs which countries fall under a region?
Or is it your best understanding of how countries are divided upon regions?

I have the same question about the origin of this list. Thank you!

Hi there, United States current ISO code name is "United States of America" instead of "United States". Link here.

I made a few tweaks following the comments above:

1. Koreas moved from EMEA to APAC
2. South Sudan moved from APAC to EMEA
3. "United States" corrected to "United States of America"

As far as I know, there isn't an ISO standard for "regions" of the world. Back in 2015 when I wrote this, I worked for a company that split its operations into AMER/APAC/EMEA and this list was used for various bits and bobs, e.g. routing support tickets to the right team. The assignment of regions is, therefore, written by me, which explains why there were a few errors :) Thanks to everyone who pointed them out!

Also, I chose not to include additional reserved countries, only listing the 249 current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. It's an attempt at a "canonical" list of countries but that's not set in stone...only version control.

an easy way to digest this in python:

import pandas as pd
import requests
from io import StringIO

resp = requests.get("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/richjenks/15b75f1960bc3321e295/raw/e9b473faed0c7512d6720d71d485b662cd743d25/countries.md", timeout=30)
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(resp.text, sep='|')