Country Code

Following is explained in the ISO20022 Payments Maintenance 2009 document. 

 

Definition:  Code to identify a country, a dependency, or another area of particular geopolitical interest, 

on the basis of country names obtained from the United Nations (ISO 3166, Alpha-2 code).

Format:  [A-Z]{2,2}

Rule(s):  The code is checked against the list of country names obtained from the United Nations (ISO 3166, Alpha-2 code).

Example:  BE