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

See also: Country codes: S#Switzerland

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:

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 This standard was withdrawn in 2008.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.

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

List of airports in Switzerland