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STANDARD AUSTRALIAN CLASSIFICATION
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AVETMISS DATA ELEMENT
DEFINITIONS: EDITION 2.1
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Australian Bureau of Statistics Standard Australian Classification of Countries
(SACC), ABS Catalogue No. 1269.0, 2011 (second edition, revision 1)
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Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) ABS Catalogue No. 1269.0,
2011(second edition, revision 1)
SUPPLEMENTARY CODES
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0001
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Not Specified
Inadequately Described
At Sea
Oceania and Antarctica
11
AUSTRALIA (INCLUDES EXTERNAL TERRITORIES)
1101
1102
1199
12
NEW ZEALAND
1201
13
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia, Federated States of
Nauru
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
POLYNESIA (EXCLUDES HAWAII)
1501
1502
1503
1504
1505
1506
1507
1508
1511
1512
1513
1599
16
New Caledonia
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
MICRONESIA
1401
1402
1403
1404
1405
1406
1407
15
New Zealand
MELANESIA
1301
1302
1303
1304
14
Australia
Norfolk Island
Australian External Territories, nec
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Niue
Samoa
Samoa, American
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Wallis and Futuna
Pitcairn Islands
Polynesia (excludes Hawaii), nec
ANTARCTICA
1601
1602
1603
1604
1605
1606
1607
Adelie Land (France)
Argentinian Antarctic Territory
Australian Antarctic Territory
British Antarctic Territory
Chilean Antarctic Territory
Queen Maud Land (Norway)
Ross Dependency (New Zealand)
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North-West Europe
21
UNITED KINGDOM, CHANNEL ISLANDS AND ISLE OF MAN
2102
2103
2104
2105
2106
2107
2108
22
23
Ireland
WESTERN EUROPE
2301
2302
2303
2304
2305
2306
2307
2308
2311
24
England
Isle of Man
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Guernsey
Jersey
IRELAND
2201
Austria
Belgium
France
Germany
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Switzerland
NORTHERN EUROPE
2401
2402
2403
2404
2405
2406
2407
2408
3
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Denmark
Faroe Islands
Finland
Greenland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Aland Islands
Southern and Eastern Europe
31
SOUTHERN EUROPE
3101
3102
3103
3104
3105
3106
3107
3108
32
Andorra
Gibraltar
Holy See
Italy
Malta
Portugal
San Marino
Spain
SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE
3201
3202
3203
3204
3205
3206
3207
3208
3211
3212
3214
3215
3216
Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
Greece
Moldova
Romania
Slovenia
Montenegro
Serbia
Kosovo
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EASTERN EUROPE
3301
3302
3303
3304
3305
3306
3307
3308
3311
3312
4
Belarus
Czech Republic
Estonia
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Russian Federation
Slovakia
Ukraine
North Africa and the Middle East
41
NORTH AFRICA
4101
4102
4103
4104
4105
4106
4107
4108
4111
42
Algeria
Egypt
Libya
Morocco
Sudan
Tunisia
Western Sahara
Spanish North Africa
South Sudan
MIDDLE EAST
4201
4202
4203
4204
4205
4206
4207
4208
4211
4212
4213
4214
4215
4216
4217
5
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Bahrain
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
South-East Asia
51
MAINLAND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
5101
5102
5103
5104
5105
52
Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar)
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Vietnam
MARITIME SOUTH-EAST ASIA
5201
5202
5203
5204
5205
5206
Brunei Darussalam
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Timor-Leste
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North-East Asia
61
CHINESE ASIA (INCLUDES MONGOLIA)
6101
6102
6103
6104
6105
62
Japan
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North)
Korea, Republic of (South)
Southern and Central Asia
71
SOUTHERN ASIA
7101
7102
7103
7104
7105
7106
7107
72
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Maldives
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
CENTRAL ASIA
7201
7202
7203
7204
7205
7206
7207
7208
7211
8
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
Hong Kong (SAR of China)
Macau (SAR of China)
Mongolia
Taiwan
JAPAN AND THE KOREAS
6201
6202
6203
7
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Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Americas
81
NORTHERN AMERICA
8101
8102
8103
8104
82
Bermuda
Canada
St Pierre and Miquelon
United States of America
SOUTH AMERICA
8201
8202
8203
8204
8205
8206
8207
8208
8211
8212
8213
8214
8215
8216
8299
Argentina
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
South America, nec
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CENTRAL AMERICA
8301
8302
8303
8304
8305
8306
8307
8308
84
Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
CARIBBEAN
8401
8402
8403
8404
8405
8406
8407
8408
8411
8412
8413
8414
8415
8416
8417
8421
8422
8423
8424
8425
8426
8427
8428
8431
8432
8433
8434
8435
9
SACC
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, United States
St Barthelemy
St Martin (French part)
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Curacao
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Sub-Saharan Africa
91
CENTRAL AND WEST AFRICA
9101
9102
9103
9104
9105
9106
9107
9108
9111
9112
9113
9114
9115
9116
9117
9118
9121
9122
9123
9124
9125
9126
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo, Republic of
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Cote d'Ivoire
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
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9127
9128
SACC
Sierra Leone
Togo
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92
SACC
SOUTHERN AND EAST AFRICA
9201
9202
9203
9204
9205
9206
9207
9208
9211
9212
9213
9214
9215
9216
9217
9218
9221
9222
9223
9224
9225
9226
9227
9228
9231
9232
9299
Angola
Botswana
Burundi
Comoros
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mozambique
Namibia
Reunion
Rwanda
St Helena
Seychelles
Somalia
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Southern and East Africa, nec