Data codes for Switzerland
# Data codes for Switzerland

These are data codes for Switzerland.

## Country

These are codes for the country itself. See country code for a fuller explanation.

### CH

    ISO country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, two letter)
    Internet Country code top-level domain (ccTLD) (see .ch)
    Distinguishing sign of vehicles in international traffic
    International Union of Railways alphabetical UIC Country Code
    WIPO ST.3

### CHE

    ISO country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, three letter code)

### EO39

    Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)

### HB

    ICAO aircraft registration prefix (since 1935, before: CH)

### HBA-HBZ, HEA-HEZ

    ITU callsign prefix

### LS

    ICAO airport code or nationality letters for location indicator (see also: List of airport codes: LS)

### SUI

    IOC country code
    FIFA country code
    ITU letter codes for member-countries

### SW

    WMO message header country code

### SZ

    FIPS country code
    Library of Congress machine-readable cataloguing country code

### 41

    Country calling code

### 85

    International Union of Railways numeric UIC Country Code

### 228

    E.212 Mobile country code

### 269

    ITU maritime identification digits

### 756

    ISO country code (ISO 3166-1 numeric, numeric code)

### 760-769

    GS1 prefix of GTIN (barcodes) by GS1 Switzerland

### ШВА

    Cyrillic three-letter country codes per GOST 7.67 or ISO 3166-88 standard

## NUTS-2 regions

As a member of the EFTA, Switzerland is included in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS). The three NUTS levels are:

* NUTS-1: Switzerland (CH0)
* NUTS-2: 7 Regions
* NUTS-3: 26 Cantons

The seven NUTS-2 regions are the following:

| Code | Region | Region (local name) | Cantons |
| - | - | - | - |
| CH01 | Lake Geneva region | Région lémanique | Vaud, Valais, Geneva |
| CH02 | Espace Mittelland | Espace Mittelland | Berne, Fribourg, Solothurn, Neuchâtel, Jura |
| CH03 | Northwestern Switzerland | Nordwestschweiz | Basel-City, Basel-Country, Aargau |
| CH04 | Zurich | Zürich | Zurich |
| CH05 | Eastern Switzerland | Ostschweiz | Glarus, Schaffhausen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, St. Gallen, Grisons, Thurgau |
| CH06 | Central Switzerland | Zentralschweiz | Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Zug |
| CH07 | Ticino | Ticino | Ticino |

Below the NUTS levels, there are two LAU levels (LAU-1: districts; LAU-2: municipalities).

## Cantons

The two-letter abbreviations are widely used, e.g. on car license plates and as disambiguator for localities on postal addresses if two localities in different cantons have the same name. They are also used with the prefix "CH-" as ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland, e.g. CH-SZ for the canton of Schwyz.

SFSO also uses a numerical code ordering the cantons by their constitutional order (1 to 26).

The FIPS 10-4 region codes of Switzerland were used by the United States government. This standard was withdrawn in 2008.

The NUTS-3 codes are used by the European Union.

Data codes for Cantons of Switzerland :

| Canton | Two-letter Abbr. | Numeric | FIPS 10-4 | NUTS-3 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Aargau | AG | 19 | SZ01 | CH033 |
| Appenzell Innerrhoden | AI | 15 | SZ10 | CH054 |
| Appenzell Ausserrhoden | AR | 16 | SZ02 | CH053 |
| Berne | BE | 2 | SZ05 | CH021 |
| Basel-Landschaft | BL | 13 | SZ03 | CH032 |
| Basel-Stadt | BS | 12 | SZ04 | CH031 |
| Fribourg | FR | 10 | SZ06 | CH022 |
| Geneva | GE | 25 | SZ07 | CH013 |
| Glarus | GL | 8 | SZ08 | CH051 |
| Grisons | GR | 18 | SZ09 | CH056 |
| Jura | JU | 26 | SZ26 | CH025 |
| Lucerne | LU | 3 | SZ11 | CH061 |
| Neuchâtel | NE | 24 | SZ12 | CH024 |
| Nidwalden | NW | 7 | SZ13 | CH065 |
| Obwalden | OW | 6 | SZ14 | CH064 |
| St. Gallen | SG | 17 | SZ15 | CH055 |
| Schaffhausen | SH | 14 | SZ16 | CH052 |
| Solothurn | SO | 11 | SZ18 | CH023 |
| Schwyz | SZ | 5 | SZ17 | CH063 |
| Thurgau | TG | 20 | SZ19 | CH057 |
| Ticino | TI | 21 | SZ20 | CH070 |
| Uri | UR | 4 | SZ21 | CH062 |
| Vaud | VD | 22 | SZ23 | CH011 |
| Valais | VS | 23 | SZ22 | CH012 |
| Zug | ZG | 9 | SZ24 | CH066 |
| Zürich | ZH | 1 | SZ25 | CH040 |

## Districts

Districts are assigned three-digit numerical codes by SFSO.

Districts are used as LAU-1 level.

## Municipalities

See Community Identification Number#Switzerland

Municipalities are used as LAU-2 level.

## Localities

See Postal codes in Switzerland and Liechtenstein

## Airports

See

* List of airports by ICAO code: L#LS – Switzerland and Liechtenstein
* List of airports in Switzerland
