This article contains information related to the countries and languages supported by SheerID, as well as the abbreviations used to designate each of these.
The conventions seen here are adopted primarily from current ISO-3166 and ISO-639 international standards.
See our article on supported consumer communities to learn which communities are supported for each of the countries below.
Country abbreviations
Abbreviation |
Country |
|---|---|
| AD | Andorra |
| AE | United Arab Emirates |
| AF | Afghanistan |
| AG | Antigua and Barbuda |
| AI | Anguilla |
| AL | Albania |
| AM | Armenia |
| AN | Netherlands Antilles |
| AO | Angola |
| AR | Argentina |
| AS | American Samoa |
| AT | Austria |
| AU | Australia |
| AW | Aruba |
| AZ | Azerbaijan |
| BA | Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| BB | Barbados |
| BD | Bangladesh |
| BE | Belgium |
| BF | Burkina Faso |
| BG | Bulgaria |
| BH | Bahrain |
| BI | Burundi |
| BJ | Benin |
| BM | Bermuda |
| BN | Brunei Darussalam |
| BO | Bolivia |
| BR | Brazil |
| BS | Bahamas |
| BT | Bhutan |
| BV | Bouvet Island |
| BW | Botswana |
| BY | Belarus |
| BZ | Belize |
| CA | Canada |
| CD | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| CF | Central African Republic |
| CG | Congo |
| CH | Switzerland |
| CI | Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) |
| CK | Cook Islands |
| CL | Chile |
| CM | Cameroon |
| CN | China |
| CO | Colombia |
| CR | Costa Rica |
| CV | Cape Verde |
| CW | Curaçao |
| CY | Cyprus |
| CZ | Czech Republic |
| DE | Germany |
| DJ | Djibouti |
| DK | Denmark |
| DM | Dominica |
| DO | Dominican Republic |
| DZ | Algeria |
| EC | Ecuador |
| EE | Estonia |
| EG | Egypt |
| EH | Western Sahara |
| ER | Eritrea |
| ES | Spain |
| ET | Ethiopia |
| FI | Finland |
| FJ | Fiji |
| FK | Falkland Islands |
| FM | Micronesia |
| FO | Faroe Islands |
| FR | France |
| GA | Gabon |
| GB | United Kingdom |
| GD | Grenada |
| GE | Georgia |
| GF | French Guyana |
| GH | Ghana |
| GI | Gibraltar |
| GL | Greenland |
| GM | Gambia |
| GN | Guinea |
| GP | Guadeloupe (French) |
| GQ | Equatorial Guinea |
| GR | Greece |
| GS | South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands |
| GT | Guatemala |
| GU | Guam (USA) |
| GW | Guinea Bissau |
| GY | Guyana |
| HK | Hong Kong |
| HM | Heard and McDonald Islands |
| HN | Honduras |
| HR | Croatia |
| HT | Haiti |
| HU | Hungary |
| ID | Indonesia |
| IE | Ireland |
| IL | Israel |
| IN | India |
| IO | British Indian Ocean Territory |
| IQ | Iraq |
| IS | Iceland |
| IT | Italy |
| JM | Jamaica |
| JO | Jordan |
| JP | Japan |
| KE | Kenya |
| KG | Kyrgyzstan |
| KH | Cambodia |
| KI | Kiribati |
| KM | Comoros |
| KN | Saint Kitts & Nevis Anguilla |
| KR | South Korea |
| KW | Kuwait |
| KY | Cayman Islands |
| KZ | Kazakhstan |
| LA | Laos |
| LB | Lebanon |
| LC | Saint Lucia |
| LI | Liechtenstein |
| LK | Sri Lanka |
| LR | Liberia |
| LS | Lesotho |
| LT | Lithuania |
| LU | Luxembourg |
| LV | Latvia |
| LY | Libya |
| MA | Morocco |
| MC | Monaco |
| MD | Moldavia |
| ME | Montenegro |
| MG | Madagascar |
| MH | Marshall Islands |
| MK | Macedonia |
| ML | Mali |
| MM | Myanmar |
| MN | Mongolia |
| MO | Macau |
| MP | Northern Mariana Islands |
| MQ | Martinique (French) |
| MR | Mauritania |
| MS | Montserrat |
| MT | Malta |
| MU | Mauritius |
| MV | Maldives |
| MW | Malawi |
| MX | Mexico |
| MY | Malaysia |
| MZ | Mozambique |
| NA | Namibia |
| NC | New Caledonia (French) |
| NE | Niger |
| NF | Norfolk Island |
| NG | Nigeria |
| NI | Nicaragua |
| NL | Netherlands |
| NO | Norway |
| NP | Nepal |
| NR | Nauru |
| NU | Niue |
| NZ | New Zealand |
| OM | Oman |
| PA | Panama |
| PE | Peru |
| PF | Polynesia (French) |
| PG | Papua New Guinea |
| PH | Philippines |
| PK | Pakistan |
| PL | Poland |
| PM | Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
| PN | Pitcairn Island |
| PR | Puerto Rico |
| PS | Palestine |
| PT | Portugal |
| PW | Palau |
| PY | Paraguay |
| QA | Qatar |
| RE | Reunion (French) |
| RO | Romania |
| RS | Serbia |
| RU | Russian Federation |
| RW | Rwanda |
| SA | Saudi Arabia |
| SB | Solomon Islands |
| SC | Seychelles |
| SD | Sudan |
| SE | Sweden |
| SG | Singapore |
| SH | Saint Helena |
| SI | Slovenia |
| SK | Slovak Republic |
| SL | Sierra Leone |
| SM | San Marino |
| SN | Senegal |
| SO | Somalia |
| SR | Suriname |
| SS | South Sudan |
| ST | Saint Tome (Sao Tome) and Principe |
| SV | El Salvador |
| SZ | Swaziland |
| TC | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| TD | Chad |
| TF | French Southern Territories |
| TG | Togo |
| TH | Thailand |
| TJ | Tajikistan |
| TK | Tokelau |
| TL | Timor-Leste |
| TM | Turkmenistan |
| TN | Tunisia |
| TO | Tonga |
| TR | Turkey |
| TT | Trinidad and Tobago |
| TV | Tuvalu |
| TW | Taiwan |
| TZ | Tanzania |
| UA | Ukraine* |
| UG | Uganda |
| UM | USA Minor Outlying Islands |
| US | United States |
| UY | Uruguay |
| UZ | Uzbekistan |
| VA | Vatican City State |
| VC | Saint Vincent & Grenadines |
| VE | Venezuela |
| VG | Virgin Islands (British) |
| VI | Virgin Islands (USA) |
| VN | Vietnam |
| VU | Vanuatu |
| WF | Wallis and Futuna Islands |
| WS | Samoa |
| XK | Kosovo |
| YE | Yemen |
| YT | Mayotte |
| ZA | South Africa |
| ZM | Zambia |
| ZW | Zimbabwe |
*Excludes Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk.
SheerID does not support verification in the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, portions of Ukraine (Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk).
Language abbreviations
Abbreviation |
Language |
Writing Direction |
|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | Right-to-left |
| bg | Bulgarian | Left-to-right |
| cs | Czech | Left-to-right |
| da | Danish | Left-to-right |
| de | German | Left-to-right |
| el | Greek | Left-to-right |
| en-GB | English (Great Britain) | Left-to-right |
| en-US | English (America) | Left-to-right |
| es-ES | Spanish (Spain) | Left-to-right |
| es | Spanish (Latin America) | Left-to-right |
| fi | Finnish | Left-to-right |
| fr | French | Left-to-right |
| fr-CA | French (Canada) | Left-to-right |
| ga | Irish | Left-to-right |
| hr | Croatian | Left-to-right |
| hu | Hungarian | Left-to-right |
| is | Icelandic | Left-to-right |
| id | Indonesian | Left-to-right |
| it | Italian | Left-to-right |
| iw | Hebrew | Right-to-left |
| ja | Japanese | Left-to-right |
| ko | Korean | Left-to-right |
| lo | Laotian | Left-to-right |
| lt | Lithuanian | Left-to-right |
| ms | Malay | Left-to-right |
| nl | Dutch | Left-to-right |
| nl-BE | Flemish | Left-to-right |
| no | Norwegian | Left-to-right |
| pl | Polish | Left-to-right |
| pt | Portuguese | Left-to-right |
| pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazil) | Left-to-right |
| ro | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan | Left-to-right |
| ru | Russian | Left-to-right |
| sk | Slovak | Left-to-right |
| sl | Slovenian | Left-to-right |
| sr | Serbian | Left-to-right |
| sw | Swahili | Left-to-right |
| sv | Swedish | Left-to-right |
| th | Thai | Left-to-right |
| tr | Turkish | Left-to-right |
| uk | Ukrainian | Left-to-right |
| ur | Urdu | Right-to-left |
| vi | Vietnamese | Left-to-right |
| zh | Chinese (Simplified) | Left-to-right |
| zh-HK | Chinese (Traditional) | Left-to-right |
| zu | Zulu | Left-to-right |
SheerID does not support verification in the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, portions of Ukraine (Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk).