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Why is Greece abbreviated as EL and not GR? Seems to be a general EU thing.
Because Greece is "Ellas" in Greek, when transliterated.
EL for Ελληνική Δημοκρατία is the official EU VAT abbreviation for Greece, though GR is used almost everywhere else.
Seems to me that it's the national country code just like DE for Germany, SE for Sweden and ES for Spain.
But DE, SE, and ES are the official two-digit ISO 3166 country codes for Germany, Sweden, and Spain, respectively. The ISO 3166 country code for Greece is GR, not ES.
However, el is the official ISO 639 language code for the Greek language (lowercase, not uppercase!). So for some reason, someone decided to use the uppercase Greek language code to denote the country of Greece. (the two-digit ISO 639 language code for Sweden is sv, so it’s not even consistent)
As /u/Successful_Try543@feddit.org pointed out, they apparently use the VAT identification number for this image.
Now I wonder why it's still HU and FI