Information by country

This page is intended to provide simple routes to results so users do not have to understand the full details of the cataloguing or search protocols to find a wide range of information.

As an example, users wanting to access the SHIB-coded files about allegations of Syrian use of chemical weapons do not need to remember that these are coded as D6.57 and its subfiles, but can simply open the Syria page where codes relating to that country and its activities are provided. In addition, each page has links to relevant entries within the CBW Events coding system.

Countries are listed by the names that are used within the UN and are in the order listed by the UN. Some past entities are included where there are related files, such as the USSR and Yugoslavia. Links below open in a new tab or window depending on your device settings.

The two-letter codes after each name are the codes based on ISO-3166-2 which, with the odd exception, are used within the keywords section of this catalogue to define countries. The SHIB paper-based system used a bespoke set of three-letter codes for countries for fileheadings such as those within Subcategory C3.

PLEASE NOTE: These pages are still being developed and so not all the pages below have been fully coded yet. In addition, the catalogue is still being collated with only a proportion of the holdings currently included. In addition, for the purposes of developing this data retrieval system, only part of the catalogue has been uploaded here at this time.


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B — Return to top of list

  • Bahamas — BS
  • Bahrain — BH
  • Bangladesh — BD
  • Barbados — BB
  • Belarus — BY
  • Belgium — BE
  • Belize — BZ
  • Benin — BJ
  • Bermuda — BM
  • Bhutan — BT
  • Bolivia — BO
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina — BA
  • Botswana — BW
  • Brazil — BR
  • Brunei Darussalam — BN
  • Bulgaria — BG
  • Burkina Faso — BF
  • Burundi — BI

C — Return to top of list

  • Cabo Verde — CV
  • Cambodia — KH
  • Cameroon — CM
  • Canada — CA
  • Central African Republic — CF
  • Chad — TD
  • Chile — CL
  • China — CN
  • Colombia — CO
  • Comoros — KM
  • Congo — CG
  • Cook Islands — CK
  • Costa Rica — CR
  • Côte d’Ivoire — CI
  • Croatia — HR
  • Cuba — CU
  • Cyprus — CY
  • Czechia — CZ
  • Czechoslovakia

D — Return to top of list

  • Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — KP
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo — CD
  • Denmark — DK
  • Djibouti — DJ
  • Dominica — DM
  • Dominican Republic — DO

E — Return to top of list

  • Ecuador — EC
  • Egypt — EG
  • El Salvador — SV
  • Equatorial Guinea — GC
  • Eritrea — ER
  • Estonia — EE
  • Eswatini — SZ
  • Ethiopia — ET

F — Return to top of list

  • Fiji — FJ
  • Finland — FI
  • France — FR

G — Return to top of list

  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany [includes references to FRG and GDR files]
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guinea Bissau
  • Guyana

H — Return to top of list

  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hungary

I — Return to top of list

J — Return to top of list

  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan

K — Return to top of list

  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan

L — Return to top of list

  • Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg

M — Return to top of list

  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia — MY
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico — MX
  • Micronesia (Federated States of)
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar [Burma] — MM

N — Return to top of list

  • Namibia — NA
  • Naoero — NR
  • Nepal — NP
  • Netherlands (Kingdom of the) — NL
  • New Zealand — NZ
  • Nicaragua — NI
  • Niger — NE
  • Nigeria — NG
  • Niue — NU
  • North Macedonia — MK
  • Norway — NO

O — Return to top of list

  • Oman — OM

P — Return to top of list

  • Pakistan — PK
  • Palau — PW
  • Panama — PA
  • Papua New Guinea — PG
  • Paraguay — PY
  • Peru — PE
  • Philippines — PH
  • Poland — PL
  • Portugal — PT

Q — Return to top of list

  • Qatar — QA

R — Return to top of list

  • Republic of Korea — KR
  • Republic of Moldova — MD
  • Romania — RO
  • Russian Federation — RU
  • Rwanda — RW

S — Return to top of list

  • Saint Kitts and Nevis — KN
  • Saint Lucia — LC
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — VC
  • Samoa — WS
  • San Marino — SM
  • Sao Tome and Príncipe — ST
  • Saudi Arabia — SA
  • Senegal — SN
  • Serbia — RS
  • Seychelles — SC
  • Sierra Leone — SL
  • Singapore — SG
  • Slovakia — SK
  • Slovenia — SI
  • Solomon Islands — SB
  • Somalia — SO
  • South Africa — ZA
  • South Sudan — SS
  • Spain — ES
  • Sri Lanka — LK
  • State of Palestine — PS
  • Sudan — SD
  • Suriname — SR
  • Sweden — SE
  • Switzerland — CH
  • Syrian Arab Republic — SY

T — Return to top of list

  • Tajikistan — TJ
  • Thailand — TH
  • Timor-Leste — TL
  • Togo — TG
  • Tonga — TO
  • Trinidad and Tobago — TT
  • Tunisia — TN
  • Türkiye — TR
  • Turkmenistan — TM
  • Tuvalu — TV

U — Return to top of list

V — Return to top of list

  • Vanuatu — VU
  • Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of — VE
  • Viet Nam — VN

Y — Return to top of list

  • Yemen [includes references to North Yemen and South Yemen files] — YE
  • Yugoslavia — YU

Z — Return to top of list

  • Zambia — ZM
  • Zimbabwe [includes references to Rhodesia files] — ZW

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