The UIC Country Code is a two digit-number identifying countries in which members of the International Union of Railways (UIC) are active. The UIC has issued numbering systems for rolling stock (UIC wagon numbers) and stations that include the country code. The values are defined in UIC leaflet 920–14.
The country code had originally been designed as a company code but mainly as a consequence of the reorganisation of the rail sector in Europe changes were necessary. When the former UIC vehicle number became a vehicle register number (European Vehicle Number, EVN) issued by governmental organisations, the code was attributed to the countries. Vehicle numbering is now governed by the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Railsee: UTP Marking 2015, Uniform Technical Prescription Applicable to Vehicle Numbers and linked alphabetical marking on the bodywork: THE RAILWAY VEHICLE MARKING, Applicable from 1.1.2015, retrieved from: OTIF page Prescriptions and Other Rules and in Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) of the European Union.
Railroads in North America use a system based on company-specific reporting marks, and a similar system, ISO 6346, is used for intermodal containers.
Table of codes Numerical codeAlphabetical code Country10FIFinland20RURussia21BYBelarus22UAUkraine23MDMoldova24LTLithuania25LVLatvia26EEEstonia27KZKazakhstan28GEGeorgia29UZUzbekistan30KPNorth Korea31MNMongolia32VNVietnam33CNChina34LALaos40CUCuba41ALAlbania42JPJapan44BA Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serb Republic of 49BA Bosnia and Herzegovina50BA Bosnia and Herzegovina, Muslim-Croat Federation of 51PLPoland52BGBulgaria53RORomania54CZCzech Republic55HUHungary56SKSlovakia57AZAzerbaijan58AMArmenia59KGKyrgyzstan60IEIreland61KRSouth Korea62MEMontenegro65MKNorth Macedonia66TJTajikistan67TMTurkmenistan68AFAfghanistan70GBUnited Kingdom71ESSpain72RSSerbia73GRGreece74SESweden75TRTurkey76NONorway78HRCroatia79SISlovenia80DEGermany81ATAustria82LULuxembourg83ITItaly84NLNetherlands85CHSwitzerland86DKDenmark87FRFrance88BEBelgium89TZTanzania90EGEgypt91TNTunisia92DZAlgeria93MAMorocco94PTPortugal95ILIsrael96IRIran97SYSyria98LBLebanon99IQIraqn/a AUAustralian/a CACanadan/a CD DR Congon/a ZASouth African/a USUnited States
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References
Country codes – UIC CSV list of current codes – UIC