Codes No Longer in Use
| Code | Country | Until | After | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADN | Aden | 1980 | Y | From 1938. a.k.a. South Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967) |
| BA | Myanmar | 1956 | BUR | From 1937. |
| BP | Bechuanaland Protectorate | 1966 | Now Botswana | |
| CS | Czechoslovakia | 1992 | CZ / SK | Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
| DA | Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk) | 1939 | D (1939–1945) PL (since 1945) |
Danzig (German for Gdańsk) |
| DDR | German Democratic Republic | 1990 | D | Deutsche Demokratische Republik |
| EW | Estonia | 1993 | EST | Eesti Vabariik (Estonian) |
| FR | Faroe Islands | 1996 | FO | Føroyar (Faroese) |
| GRO | Greenland | KN | Grønland (Danish language) / Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenlandic language) | |
| HV | Haute Volta, now Burkina Faso | 1984 | BF | Upper Volta |
| LR | Latvia | 1927–1940 | SU, LV | Latvijas Republika (Latvian) |
| R | Romania | 1981 | RO | |
| RNY | Rhodesia-Nyasaland Fed. | 1953–1963 | NP, NR, SR | Now Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| ROU | Uruguay | 1979–2012 | UY | República Oriental del Uruguay (Spanish) |
| RSR | Southern Rhodesia | 1965–1979 | SR | Now Zimbabwe |
| RT | Togo | 1973 | TG | République togolaise (French). Formerly French Togoland − 1960 |
| SA | Saarland | 1956 | D | also D between 1935 and 1945; SA is now Saudi Arabia |
| SB | Serbia | 1919 | SHS | Serbia became part of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| SCG | Serbia and Montenegro | 2006 | MNE, SRB | From Serbian name "Srbija i Crna Gora". Now Montenegro, Serbia |
| SF | Finland | 1993 | FIN | SF from "Suomi – Finland" (the names of the country in its official languages, Finnish and Swedish) |
| SHS | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | 1929 | Y | Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca – Serbo-Croatian. Kingdom changed its name to Yugoslavia |
| SU | Soviet Union | 1991 | EST, LT, LV, BY, MD, UA, TJ, TUR, GE, KZ, UZ, KS, AZ, AM, RUS | |
| SWA | South West Africa | 1990 | now Namibia | |
| TS | Free Territory of Trieste | 1947–1954 | I, YU, SLO | |
| Y | Yugoslavia | 1953 | YU | Yemen started using Y afterwards |
| YU | Yugoslavia | 2003 | BIH, HR, KS, MK, MNE, SRB, SLO | Now Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia |
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