Country Info - USA & Canada
The product or company code you were getting information about encodes the country that the company selling the product is registered in. For any EAN-13 code, the first three digits encode the "country." It is interesting to note that there are special countries set up for books & coupons. All EAN-13 codes for books are essentially a 3 digit "bookland" prefix, along with the ISBN code, which itself encodes country, publisher, etc.
Country codes
The first three digits of the barcode of any product represents the country. Note that EAN codes beginning with 0 are rarely used, as this is just an addition to 12-digit UPC. Since most scanners and registers worldwide can read both equally, most manufacturers in North America still only use UPC.
- 000 - 019 USA & Canada
- 020 - 029 reserved for local use (store/warehouse)
- 030 - 039 USA & Canada drugs (see U.S. National Drug Code)
- 040 - 049 reserved for local use (store/warehouse)
- 050 - 059 coupons
- 060 - 099 USA & Canada
- 100 - 139 USA & Canada (reserved for later use)
- 200 - 299 reserved for local use (store/warehouse)
- 300 - 379 France
- 380 Bulgaria
- 383 Slovenia
- 385 Croatia
- 387 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 400 - 440 Germany
- 450 - 459 Japan
- 460 - 469 Russia
- 470 Kyrgyzstan
- 471 Taiwan
- 474 Estonia
- 475 Latvia
- 476 Azerbaijan
- 477 Lithuania
- 478 Uzbekistan
- 479 Sri Lanka
- 480 Philippines
- 481 Belarus
- 482 Ukraine
- 484 Moldova
- 485 Armenia
- 486 Georgia
- 487 Kazakhstan
- 489 Hong Kong
- 490 - 499 Japan
- 500 - 509 United Kingdom
- 520 Greece
- 528 Lebanon
- 529 Cyprus
- 531 Macedonia
- 535 Malta
- 539 Ireland
- 540 - 549 Belgium and Luxembourg
- 560 Portugal
- 569 Iceland
- 570 - 579 Denmark
- 590 Poland
- 594 Romania
- 599 Hungary
- 600 - 601 South Africa
- 608 Bahrain
- 609 Mauritius
- 611 Morocco
- 613 Algeria
- 616 Kenya
- 619 Tunisia
- 621 Syria
- 622 Egypt
- 624 Libya
- 625 Jordan
- 626 Iran
- 627 Kuwait
- 628 Saudi Arabia
- 629 United Arab Emirates
- 640 - 649 Finland
- 690 - 695 China
- 700 - 709 Norway
- 729 Israel
- 730 - 739 Sweden
- 740 Guatemala
- 741 El Salvador
- 742 Honduras
- 743 Nicaragua
- 744 Costa Rica
- 745 Panama
- 746 Dominican Republic
- 750 Mexico
- 754 - 755 Canada
- 759 Venezuela
- 760 - 769 Switzerland
- 770 Colombia
- 773 Uruguay
- 775 Peru
- 777 Bolivia
- 779 Argentina
- 780 Chile
- 784 Paraguay
- 785 Peru
- 786 Ecuador
- 789 - 790 Brasil
- 800 - 839 Italy
- 840 - 849 Spain
- 850 Cuba
- 858 Slovakia
- 859 Czech Republic
- 860 Serbia and Montenegro
- 865 Mongolia
- 867 North Korea
- 869 Turkey
- 870 - 879 Netherlands
- 880 South Korea
- 884 Cambodia
- 885 Thailand
- 888 Singapore
- 890 India
- 893 Vietnam
- 899 Indonesia
- 900 - 919 Austria
- 930 - 939 Australia
- 940 - 949 New Zealand
- 950 Head Office
- 955 Malaysia
- 958 Macau
- 977 Serial publications (ISSN)
- 978 - 979 Bookland (ISBN)
- 980 Refund receipts
- 981 - 982 Common Currency Coupons
- 990 - 999 Coupons