3166MA

3166MA is a reference term that combines the ISO 3166 standard number with the alpha‑2 country code for Morocco. ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that provides short codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The alpha‑2 code for Morocco is MA, and the numeric part of the standard—3166—identifies the ISO 3166 series within the larger ISO catalog of standards. When the two elements are concatenated, the resulting token “3166MA” is sometimes used in legacy data systems, geocoding utilities, and international shipping documentation to specifically refer to Morocco within the context of ISO 3166 coding.

Morocco has retained the alpha‑2 code MA since the first edition of ISO 3166-1 published in 1974, and the country is also assigned numeric and alpha‑3 codes of 504 and MAR respectively. The designation 3166MA is not an official ISO identifier in itself, but it appears in database fields, XML schemas, and internal reference tables where both the standard number and country code need to be represented together for clarity or compliance with legacy IT infrastructure.

In geopositioning, customs clearance, and international trade documentation, 3166MA may be seen in batch files, spreadsheet labels, or legacy file naming conventions. Modern ISO-compliant systems typically use the standard alpha‑2 or alpha‑3 codes alone; however, older infrastructure that pre-dates the widespread adoption of ISO 3166 often still references 3166MA. The term is stable, unambiguous, and internationally recognized wherever the ISO 3166 standard is applied.