Guidance

Nationalities and countries for company filings

Our standard list of nationalities and countries.

• From: Companies House
• Published: 16 October 2017
• Last updated: 29 October 2025
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  1. 29 October 2025

     Guernsey, Alderney, Herm, and Sark combined into a single selectable option: Guernsey, Alderney, Sark. Macedonia updated to North Macedonia.

  2. 23 September 2020

     Added Alderney, Sark, Herm and Eswatini to the list of geographical names.

  3. 4 July 2018

     Welsh translation added

  4. 1 December 2017

     CSV files added

  5. 2 November 2017

     Amendments to some characters in the names of some countries

  6. 20 October 2017

     List of countries added.

  7. 16 October 2017

     First published.

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List of nationalities

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Geographical names

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List of nationalities CSV file

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