Convert three letter country codes to full country names

Question

I need to convert a few hundred three letter country codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3) to their full country name in MS EXCEL.

I imagine this can be done with a VLOOKUP

Answer 1

Edit on 2018-01-08: Unfortunately it seems that CountryConversion.com is now dead. If anyone knows of a similar site please share it.

CountryConversion.com works great. It also has a bunch of other conversion possibilities too.

1. Copy-paste your column of 3-letter codes into the leftmost column.
2. Input type: Choose "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3".
3. Output type: Choose "Name".
4. Click convert.

There are a few small bugs though:

• Diacritics become funky. So "Côte d'Ivoire" and "São Tomé and Príncipe" appear as "C├┤te d'Ivoire" and "S├úo Tom├® and Principe".
• Somehow, "FRA" and "NOR" (and possibly others) fail to convert and give blank outputs.