List of GS1 country codes

This is a list of country codes used by GS1.

Source: GS1 Company Prefix (https://www.gs1.org/company-prefix)

Code Country

001–
UPC-A compatible - United States
019

020–
UPC-A compatible - Used to issue restricted circulation numbers within a geographic region [1]
029
030–
UPC-A compatible - United States drugs (see United States National Drug Code)
039

040–
UPC-A compatible - Used to issue restricted circulation numbers within a company
049

050–
UPC-A compatible - GS1 US reserved for future use
059
060–
UPC-A compatible - United States
099

100–
United States
139

200–
299 Used to issue GS1 restricted circulation number within a geographic region[1]

300–
France and Monaco
379

380 Bulgaria

383 Slovenia

385 Croatia
387 Bosnia and Herzegovina

389 Montenegro

390 Republic of Kosovo (EAN-imposed, no GS1 Member Organisation)[2]

400–
Germany (440 code inherited from former East Germany upon reunification in 1990)
440
450–
Japan (new Japanese Article Number range)
459

460–
Russia (barcodes inherited from the Soviet Union)
469

470 Kyrgyzstan

471 Taiwan

474 Estonia

475 Latvia

476 Azerbaijan

477 Lithuania

478 Uzbekistan
479 Sri Lanka

480 Philippines

481 Belarus

482 Ukraine
483 Turkmenistan

484 Moldova

485 Armenia

486 Georgia

487 Kazakhstan

488 Tajikistan

489 Hong Kong

490–
Japan (original Japanese Article Number range)
499

500–
United Kingdom
509

520–
Greece
521

528 Lebanon

529 Cyprus

530 Albania

531 North Macedonia

535 Malta

539 Ireland
540–
Belgium and Luxembourg
549

560 Portugal

569 Iceland

570–
Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland
579

590 Poland

594 Romania

599 Hungary
600–
South Africa
601

603 Ghana

604 Senegal

607 Oman

608 Bahrain

609 Mauritius

611 Morocco

613 Algeria

615 Nigeria

616 Kenya
617 Cameroon

618 Ivory Coast

619 Tunisia

620 Tanzania

621 Syria

622 Egypt

623 "Managed by GS1 Global Office for future MO" (was Brunei until May 2021[3])

624 Libya
625 Jordan

626 Iran

627 Kuwait

628 Saudi Arabia

629 United Arab Emirates

630 Qatar

631 Namibia[4]

640–
Finland
649

680–
China
681

690–
China
699
700–
Norway
709

729 Israel

730–
Sweden
739

740 Guatemala

741 El Salvador

742 Honduras

743 Nicaragua

744 Costa Rica

745 Panama

746 Dominican Republic

750 Mexico

754–
Canada
755

759 Venezuela

760–
Switzerland and Liechtenstein
769
770–
Colombia
771

773 Uruguay

775 Peru

777 Bolivia

778–
Argentina
779

780 Chile

784 Paraguay

786 Ecuador

789–
Brazil
790

800– Italy, San Marino and Vatican City

839
840–
Spain and Andorra
849

850 Cuba

858 Slovakia

859 Czech Republic (barcode inherited from Czechoslovakia)

860 Serbia (barcode inherited from Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro)

865 Mongolia
867 North Korea

868–
Türkiye
869

870–
Netherlands
879
880–
South Korea
881

883 Myanmar

884 Cambodia

885 Thailand

888 Singapore

890 India[5]

893 Vietnam

894 "Managed by GS1 Global Office for future MO" ( Bangladesh?)

896 Pakistan

899 Indonesia

900–
Austria
919
930–
Australia
939
 940–
New Zealand
949
GS1 Global Office: Used to support territories & countries where no GS1 Member Organisation
950
operates

Used to issue General Manager Numbers for the EPC General Identifier (GID) scheme as defined by
951
the EPC Tag Data Standard (https://www.gs1.org/epc/tag-data-standard)

952 Used for demonstrations and examples of the GS1 system

955 Malaysia

958 Macau

960–
GS1 UK Office: GTIN-8 allocations
961
962–
GS1 Global Office: GTIN-8 allocations
969

977 Serial publications (ISSN)

978– "Bookland" (ISBN) – 979-0 used for sheet music ("Musicland", ISMN-13, replaces deprecated ISMN M-
979 numbers)
980 Refund receipts

981–
GS1 coupon identification for common currency areas
983

990–
GS1 coupon identification
999

Note GS1 member companies can manufacture products anywhere in the world and can license prefixes
from the GS1 organisation of their choice, GS1 prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given
product. GS1 prefixes not listed above are reserved by GS1 Global Office for allocations in countries where
no GS1 Member Organisation established and for future use within the GS1 system. These are:
 140–199 682–689
381, 382, 384, 386 & 388 710–728
390–399 747–749
441–449 751–753 & 756–758
472 & 473 772, 774 & 776
510–519 781–783, 785, 787 & 788
522–527 791–799
532–534 & 536–538 851–857
550–559 861–864 & 866
561–568 882, 886, 887 & 889
580–589 891, 892, 894, 895, 897 & 898
591–593 & 595–598 920–929
602 & 605–606 953, 954, 956, 957 & 959
610, 612, 614 & 623 970–976
632–639 984–989
650–679

References
1. defined by GS1 Member Organisations
2. Agreement on barcode for Kosovo businesses (https://eciks.com/agreement-on-barcode-for-
kosovo-businesses/) (Economic Initiative for Kosovo - ECIKS, 1 December 2004)
3. "GS1 Company Prefix | GS1" (https://web.archive.org/web/20210509171240/https://www.gs
1.org/standards/id-keys/company-prefix). Archived from the original (https://www.gs1.org/stan
dards/id-keys/company-prefix) on 2021-05-09.
4. "Namibia now has own barcode" (https://www.namibian.com.na/105612/read/Namibia-now-
has-own-barcode).
5. "Barcodes" (https://www.gs1india.org/content/barcodes). Retrieved 2021-07-21. "An item
incorporating a barcode with prefix number '890' signifies ownership by an Indian
organisation."

External links
List of Assigned GS1 Prefixes (http://www.gs1.org/barcodes/support/prefix_list)
Snopes article regarding barcodes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/barcodes.asp)

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