Yugoslavia ISO country code clarification

Question

I see two ISO codes for Yugoslavia.

1. 891 - Yugoslavia and
2. 807 - Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic Of

Can someone clarify which one to use?

Answer 1

• Yugoslavia
• YU, YUG, 891
• 1974–2003
• YUCS
• Name changed to Serbia and Montenegro (CS, SCG, 891)
• Alphabetic codes used for both SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia
• Numeric code changed from 890 (for SFR Yugoslavia) to 891 (for FR Yugoslavia) in 1993
• YU currently transitionally reserved
• .yu deleted
• ISO 3166-2:YU changed to ISO 3166-2:CS

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-3

P.S. As far as Yugoslavia doesn't exist any more, what for do you need its code?

Answer 2

891 is now Serbia & Montenegro. Yugoslavia as a country no longer exists.

Answer 3

Yugoslavia no longer exists. The nation that was Yugoslavia has now been split into several smaller nations, one of which is Macedonia.

The 'Former Yugoslav Republic of' notation is only used for Macedonia (ie not by any of the other states that were previously part of Yugoslavia), and isn't generally used much anyway (I'm not even sure if it's still part of Macedonia's official name), but it may be useful to distinguish it from the Greek province of Macedonia, which is geographically very close to it.

There has been quite a lot of change in that region in recent years; make sure you have an up-to-date ISO codes list.

Answer 4

Neither.

Wikipedia has a list of currently-assigned ISO-3166 country codes, and also links to the source UN documents.

Answer 5

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija) doesn't exists any more. Macedonia is one of 6 former republic. Serbia and Montenegro disintegrated few years ago. Now, all former republics are independent countries: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosna and Hercegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia.