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If in case you have been on the this summer season, you’ve got in all probability seen the scoreboard doesn’t say “BOS,” as we might count on. It says “BIH.”
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The code comes from the nation’s identify in its personal language. In Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, the nation is Bosna i Hercegovina. That little “i” within the center means “and.”
There’s a system behind these abbreviations. Each nation has an official set of codes saved by the Worldwide Group for Standardization, which most individuals know as ISO. It is like the worldwide submitting system, so a financial institution in Tokyo and an airline in Toronto and FIFA all level to the identical nation in the identical approach. Bosnia’s three-letter code in that system is BIH, and that is the model FIFA stamps on scoreboards and TV graphics.
The codes do not all the time match what an English speaker would decide. Switzerland exhibits up as SUI, from its previous Latin identify.
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Photographs reveal unforgettable World Cup motion and emotion
US ahead #20 Folarin Balogun (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring his group’s third objective in the course of the 2026 World Cup Group D soccer match between USA and Paraguay on the Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood on June 12, 2026.
(PATRICK T. FALLON, AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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Photographs reveal unforgettable World Cup motion and emotion
US ahead #20 Folarin Balogun (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring his group’s third objective in the course of the 2026 World Cup Group D soccer match between USA and Paraguay on the Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood on June 12, 2026.
(PATRICK T. FALLON, AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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Photographs reveal unforgettable World Cup motion and emotion
Folarin Balogun #20 of the USA scores his group’s third objective in the course of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group D match between USA and Paraguay at Los Angeles Stadium on June 12, 2026 in Los Angeles.
(Richard Heathcote, Getty Photographs)
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Photographs reveal unforgettable World Cup motion and emotion
Cesar Samudio #12 of Panama fails to avoid wasting a shot from Giovanni Reyna #7 of the USA as he scores his group’s fourth objective in the course of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group D match between USA and Paraguay at Los Angeles Stadium on June 12, 2026 in Los Angeles.
(Jamie Squire, Getty Photographs)
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Photographs reveal unforgettable World Cup motion and emotion
US midfielder #07 Giovanni Reyna (R) scores his group’s fourth objective in the course of the 2026 World Cup Group D soccer match between USA and Paraguay on the Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood on June 12, 2026.
(VALERIE MACON, AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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Photographs reveal unforgettable World Cup motion and emotion
US gamers have a good time the fourth objective by midfielder #07 Giovanni Reyna in the course of the 2026 World Cup Group D soccer match between USA and Paraguay on the Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood on June 12, 2026.
(VALERIE MACON, AFP by way of Getty Photographs)