‘XK’ country code for Kosovo
March 8, 2010
Some of you have already noticed that we are now using ”XK‘ as temporary country code for Kosovo. While the US standards body ‘FIPS’ has found it worthwhile to assign a country code to Kosovo (KV), the International Organization for Standardization, ISO, has yet to assign a code to the former Serbian province. The ISO country code standard 3166 has a couple of unused codes that can be used for user specific elements: “If users need code elements to represent country names not included in this part of ISO 3166, the series of letters AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ, and the series AAA to AAZ, QMA to QZZ, XAA to XZZ, and ZZA to ZZZ respectively and the series of numbers 900 to 999 are available.“
The European Commission and many other organisations (Deutsche Bundesbank, Switzerland) are using ‘XK‘ as a temporary country code for Kosovo till ISO officially assigns a code.
GeoNames will switch to the official ISO code as soon as it has been released. In the meantime we will use ‘XK‘.
May 23, 2011 at 12:18 pm
If there has been any change since March 8 2010 ?
(for the code of Kosovo)
May 23, 2011 at 5:09 pm
If you follow the link above to iso you see that there is still no official country code for Kosovo:
http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements
August 9, 2011 at 7:04 am
[...] country in the GeoNames database with a temporary country code. The other temporary country code XK stands for Kosovo. The features of South Sudan have been updated with the temporary country code. Sudan had 25 ADM1 [...]
October 26, 2011 at 10:32 am
You can remain within the standard and still have distinct code for Kosovo by using ISO 3166-2 code RS-KM.
January 31, 2013 at 11:30 pm
RS stands for Republica Serbska! It has nothing to do with Kosovo.
Country code for kosovo is KS.
March 6, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Country code for Kosovo is alpha-2 code: KS , alpha-3 code: RKS
March 6, 2013 at 3:09 pm
What makes you believe this? I don’t find any news about Kosovo on the ISO website and as it stands now Kosovo does not yet have an ISO country code.