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D&B Country Code Change

New country codes for D&B Direct have been developed to reflect global and/or regional changes such as country name changes and new countries forming. As of September 16, 2016, the old country codes will no longer be available or processed when given in the request. All D-U-N-S Numbers available in a local market, including out of business records, will use the new D&B Country Codes. Linkage of records using Domestic Ultimate D-U-N-S and Global Ultimate D-U-N-S will also use the new country codes. Their related family-tree records will be updated accordingly. Below are some of the communication and supporting migration details for the recent country code changes.

New D&B Country Codes

Below is a list of the new D&B Country Codes available:

*Palestine and Cuba will be supported in the future, there is no data available right now.

Original Country NameNew Country NamesISO Alpha2 Country Code
 *Palestine, State ofPS
 *CubaCU

Netherlands Antilles

ISO2Code (AN)

Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and SabaBQ
CuraçaoCW
Sint Maarten (Dutch)SX

Serbia & Montenegro

ISO2Code (CS)

KosovoXK
MontenegroME
SerbiaRS
SudanSouth SudanSS
SudanSD
CyprusTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)XT
CyprusCY

NOTE: The API now supports new country codes in the request and response. Old country codes in the request will not be processed after September 16, 2016.

The ability to support the new country names and country codes from the implementation date will require users to stop using the old country names and codes, and start supporting the new as outlined above.

Developer Sandbox

Please contact Customer support to get access to the staging environment for testing of the new country codes.

Below is the developer test data for the new country codes:

In the RequestIn the Response
D-U-N-S NumberCountry CodeD-U-N-S NumberCountry Code
123412230SD123412230SD
123412230SS123412230SD
123412221SS123412221SS
123412231CY123412231CY
123412231XT123412231CY
123412232XT123412232XT
123412225AN123412225AN
123412222AN123412222BQ
123412223AN123412223CW
123412224AN123412224SX
123412225BQ123412225AN
123412222BQ123412222BQ
123412223CW123412223CW
123412224SX123412224SX
123412226CS123412226CS
123412229CS123412229RS
123412228CS123412228ME
123412227CS123412227XK
123412228ME123412228ME
123412229RS123412229RS
123412226XK123412226CS
123412227XK123412227XK

If you have any question regarding this upgrade, or how to get the most benefit out of the new Country Names and Country Codes, please contact your local D&B Customer Service department/representative for more details.