List of the Abbrevations of Countries
  Abbrevations of Federal States of USA
  Abbrevations of Canadian Provinces
  Abbrevations of German Bundesländer
  Examples of Transcriptions of Cyrillic Names

  List of the Abbrevations of Countries

All abbrevations used at The Figure Skating Corner correspond with the official international abbrevations of countries.

• AND - Andorra
• ARG - Argentina
• ARM - Armenia
• AUS - Australia
• AUT - Austria
• AZE - Azerbaijan
• BEL - Belgium
• BIH - Bosnia and Herzegovina
• BRA - Brazil
• BLR - Belorussia
• BLS - Belorussia
• BUL - Bulgaria
• CAN - Canada
• CHN - China
• CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States
• CRO - Croatia
• CZE - Czech Republic
• DEN - Denmark
• ESP - Spain
• EST - Estonia
• FIN - Finland
• FRA - France
• FRG - Federal Republic of Germany
• GBR - Great Britain
• GDR - German Democratic Republic
• GEO - Georgia
• GER - Germany
• GRE - Greece
• HKG - Hong Kong-China
• HOL - Netherlands (used until early nineties; later NED)
• HUN - Hungary
• ICL - Iceland
• IND - India
• ISL - Iceland
• ISR - Israel
• ITA - Italy
• JPN - Japan
• KOR - Republic of Korea
• KZK - Kazakhstan (also KAZ)
• LAT - Latvia
• LIT - Lithuania
• LTU - Litauen
• LUX - Luxembourg
• MEX - Mexico
• MON - Monaco
• MGL - Mongolia
• NED - Netherlands (used since early nineties, before HOL)
• NOR - Norway
• NZL - New Zealand
• PHI - Philippines
• POL - Poland
• PRK - D.P.R. Korea
• PUR - Puerto Rico
• ROM - Romania
• RUS - Russia
• RSA - Republic of South Africa
• SCG - Serbia and Montenegro (until Montenegro declared independence in 2006)
• SLO - Slovenia
• SUI - Switzerland
• SVK - Slovak Republic
• SWE - Sweden
• TCH - Czechoslovakia
• THA - Thailand
• TPE - Taiwan
• TUR - Turkey
• UKR - Ukraine
• URS - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• USA - United States of America
• UZB - Uzbekistan

In 1992 the athletes of former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics started as a kind of "community team", except athlets from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, whose states declared independence in 1991. The international abbrevation differs depending on used language:

• EUN - [frz.: Etats UNifies]
• CIS - [eng.: Commonwealth of Independent States]
• GUS - [dt.: Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten]

Abbrevations of Federal States of the USA
AK - Alaska AL - Alabama AR - Arkansas AZ - Arizona CA - Kalifornien CO - Colorado CT - Connecticut DC - District of Columbia DE - Delaware FL - Florida GA - Georgia HI - Hawaii IA - Iowa ID - Idaho IL - Illinois IN - Indiana KS - Kansas KY - Kentucky LA - Louisiana MA - Massachusetts MD - Maryland ME - Maine MI - Michigan MN - Minnesota MO - Missouri MS - Missisippi	MT - Montana NC - North Carolina ND - North Dakota NE - Nebraska NH - New Hampshire NJ - New Jersey NM - New Mexico NV - Nevada NY - New York OH - Ohio OK - Oklahoma OR - Oregon PA - Pennsylvania RI - Rhode Island SC - South Carolina SD - South Dakota TN - Tennessee TX - Texas UT - Utah VA - Virginia VT - Vermont WA - Washington WI - Wisconsin WV - West Virginia WY - Wyoming

Abbrevations of Canadian Provinces B.C. - British Columbia AB - Alberta SK - Saskatchewan MN - Manitoba ON - Ontario QC - Québec N.S. - Nova Scotia N.B. - New Brunswick P.E.I. - Prince Edward Island N.F. - Newfoundland and Labrador NT - Northwest Territories NU - Nunavut YK - Yukon Territory

Abbrevations of German Bundesländer BAY - Bavaria BER - Berlin BRE - Bremen B-W - Baden-Wurttemberg HAM - Hamburg HES - Hesse NIE - Lower Saxony NRW - North Rhine-Westphalia R-P - Rhineland-Palatinate THR - Thuringia SAA - Saar SAS - Saxony

  Examples of transcriptions of Cyrillic names

German transcription                      English transcription

Oksana Bajul                              Oksana Baiul
Julia Worobjewa                           Yulia Vorobieva
Wjadscheslav Zagorodnjuk                  Viacheslav Zagorodniuk
Alexej Jagudin                            Alexei Yagudin
Elena Beloussowskaja & Sergej Potalov     Elena Belousovskaya & Sergei Potalov
Irina Romanowa & Igor Jaroschenko         Irina Romanova & Igor Yaroshenko
Jewgenia Schischkowa & Wadim Naumov       Evgenia Shishkova & Vadim Naumov
Jelena Bereschnaja & Oleg Sljachov        Elena Bereznaya & Oleg Shliakhov