A new qualifier was introduced in version 2.1 (December 15, 1998) of the Feature table definitions: /country. This new qualifier is used to indicate the country of origin of a sequenced sample
The text below outlines the format and the present list of allowed countries
Qualifier: /country=””
Definition: Locality of isolation of the sequenced sample indicated in terms of political names for nations, oceans or seas, followed
by regions and localities.
Value format: “any country from annex 7.5.7 of the Feature Table documentation”
Example: “Canada”
Comment: /country should be a single token taken from the controlled list of annex 7.5.7 of the Feature Table documentation.
/country can also have the following format: country:sub_region, such as: /country=”Canada:Vancouver”.
Country List to be included in Feature Table Definition Document
Authority: ISDC
Contact: NCBI
Scope: /country=””
COUNTRY LIST based on information from: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm and https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antarctica
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Arctic Ocean
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Atlantic Ocean
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Baltic Sea
- Baker Island
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Bassas da India
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Borneo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bouvet Island
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Christmas Island
- Clipperton Island
- Cocos Islands
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Cook Islands
- Coral Sea Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Europa Island
- Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gaza Strip
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Glorioso Islands
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guernsey
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Howland Island
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indian Ocean
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Jan Mayen
- Japan
- Jarvis Island
- Jersey
- Johnston Atoll
- Jordan
- Juan de Nova Island
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kerguelen Archipelago
- Kingman Reef
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Line Islands
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mexico
- Micronesia, Federated States of
- Midway Islands
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Navassa Island
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- North Sea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Oman
- Pacific Ocean
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palmyra Atoll
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paracel Islands
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Reunion
- Romania
- Ross Sea
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Helena
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Southern Ocean
- Spain
- Spratly Islands
- Sri Lanka
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Tasman Sea
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tromelin Island
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- USA
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Viet Nam
- Virgin Islands
- Wake Island
- Wallis and Futuna
- West Bank
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Historical Country Names
- Belgian Congo
- British Guiana
- Burma
- Czechoslovakia
- East Timor
- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- Korea
- Macedonia
- Micronesia
- Netherlands Antilles
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Siam
- Swaziland
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- USSR
- Yugoslavia
- Zaire
Revised October 31, 2014