Country-Specific Business Entities
🇺🇸 United States
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Inc | Incorporated |
| Corp | Corporation |
| LLC | Limited Liability Company |
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
| LP | Limited Partnership |
| LLLP | Limited Liability Limited Partnership |
| PC | Professional Corporation |
| PLLC | Professional Limited Liability Company |
| PLC | Public Limited Company |
| Co | Company |
| Ltd | Limited |
| DBA | Doing Business As |
| Partnership | General Partnership |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Individual Business |
| C-Corp | C Corporation |
| S-Corp | S Corporation |
| B-Corp | Benefit Corporation |
| PBC | Public Benefit Corporation |
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Ltd | Private Limited Company |
| PLC | Public Limited Company |
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
| LP | Limited Partnership |
| CIC | Community Interest Company |
| CIO | Charitable Incorporated Organisation |
| IPS | Industrial and Provident Society |
| SE | European Company (Societas Europaea) |
| EEIG | European Economic Interest Grouping |
| Partnership | General Partnership |
| Sole_Trader | Individual Business |
| Unlimited | Unlimited Company |
| REIT | Real Estate Investment Trust |
🇩🇪 Germany
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| GmbH | Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung |
| AG | Aktiengesellschaft |
| UG | Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) |
| KG | Kommanditgesellschaft |
| OHG | Offene Handelsgesellschaft |
| GbR | Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts |
| PartG | Partnerschaftsgesellschaft |
| SE | Societas Europaea |
| eG | Eingetragene Genossenschaft |
| KGaA | Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien |
| GmbH_Co_KG | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Einzelunternehmen | Sole Proprietorship |
| PartGmbB | Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mit beschränkter Berufshaftung |
🇫🇷 France
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| SARL | Société à responsabilité limitée |
| SA | Société anonyme |
| SAS | Société par actions simplifiée |
| SASU | Société par actions simplifiée unipersonnelle |
| EURL | Entreprise unipersonnelle à responsabilité limitée |
| SNC | Société en nom collectif |
| SCS | Société en commandite simple |
| SCA | Société en commandite par actions |
| SEP | Société en participation |
| GIE | Groupement d’intérêt économique |
| GEIE | Groupement européen d’intérêt économique |
| SE | Societas Europaea |
| SCOP | Société coopérative de production |
| Auto_Entrepreneur | Auto-entrepreneur |
| EI | Entreprise individuelle |
| EIRL | Entreprise individuelle à responsabilité limitée |
🇮🇹 Italy
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| SpA | Società per azioni |
| SRL | Società a responsabilità limitata |
| SNC | Società in nome collettivo |
| SAS | Società in accomandita semplice |
| SAPA | Società in accomandita per azioni |
| SC | Società cooperativa |
| SE | Societas Europaea |
| GEIE | Gruppo europeo di interesse economico |
| Ditta_Individuale | Individual Business |
| STP | Società tra professionisti |
| Startup_Innovativa | Innovative Startup |
🇪🇸 Spain
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| SA | Sociedad Anónima |
| SL | Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada |
| SC | Sociedad Colectiva |
| Scom | Sociedad Comanditaria |
| SCom_A | Sociedad Comanditaria por Acciones |
| SCOOP | Sociedad Cooperativa |
| SE | Sociedad Europea |
| AIE | Agrupación de Interés Económico |
| UTE | Unión Temporal de Empresas |
| Empresario_Individual | Individual Entrepreneur |
| CB | Comunidad de Bienes |
| SAT | Sociedad Agraria de Transformación |
🇳🇱 Netherlands
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| BV | Besloten vennootschap |
| NV | Naamloze vennootschap |
| VOF | Vennootschap onder firma |
| CV | Commanditaire vennootschap |
| Maatschap | Partnership |
| VvE | Vereniging van Eigenaars |
| Stichting | Foundation |
| Vereniging | Association |
| Coöperatie | Cooperative |
| SE | Societas Europaea |
| EESV | Europees Economisch Samenwerkingsverband |
| Eenmanszaak | Sole Proprietorship |
🇧🇪 Belgium
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| SA | Société Anonyme / Naamloze Vennootschap |
| SPRL | Société Privée à Responsabilité Limitée |
| SRL | Société à Responsabilité Limitée |
| BV | Besloten Vennootschap |
| SNC | Société en Nom Collectif |
| SCS | Société en Commandite Simple |
| SCA | Société en Commandite par Actions |
| SCRL | Société Coopérative à Responsabilité Limitée |
| SE | Societas Europaea |
| GEIE | Groupement Européen d’Intérêt Économique |
| Entreprise_Individuelle | Individual Business |
| ASBL | Association sans but lucratif |
🇨🇭 Switzerland
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| AG | Aktiengesellschaft |
| GmbH | Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung |
| SA | Société Anonyme |
| Sàrl | Société à responsabilité limitée |
| Kollektivgesellschaft | General Partnership |
| Kommanditgesellschaft | Limited Partnership |
| Einzelfirma | Sole Proprietorship |
| Genossenschaft | Cooperative |
| Verein | Association |
| Stiftung | Foundation |
| Kommanditaktiengesellschaft | Partnership Limited by Shares |
🇦🇹 Austria
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| AG | Aktiengesellschaft |
| GmbH | Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung |
| OG | Offene Gesellschaft |
| KG | Kommanditgesellschaft |
| Gen | Genossenschaft |
| SE | Societas Europaea |
| Einzelunternehmen | Sole Proprietorship |
| Stille_Gesellschaft | Silent Partnership |
| EWIV | Europäische wirtschaftliche Interessenvereinigung |
🇨🇦 Canada
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Inc | Incorporation |
| Corp | Corporation |
| Ltd | Limited |
| Ltée | Limitée |
| LP | Limited Partnership |
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
| GP | General Partnership |
| Co | Company |
| ULC | Unlimited Liability Corporation |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Individual Business |
| Cooperative | Cooperative |
| NPO | Non-Profit Organization |
🇦🇺 Australia
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Pty_Ltd | Proprietary Limited |
| Ltd | Public Limited Company |
| LP | Limited Partnership |
| Trust | Trust |
| Sole_Trader | Individual Business |
| Partnership | General Partnership |
| Co-operative | Cooperative |
| Incorporated_Association | Incorporated Association |
| CCIV | Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle |
| AMIT | Attribution Managed Investment Trust |
🇯🇵 Japan
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| KK | Kabushiki Kaisha (株式会社) |
| GK | Godo Kaisha (合同会社) |
| YK | Yugen Kaisha (有限会社) |
| Gomei | Gomei Kaisha (合名会社) |
| Goshi | Goshi Kaisha (合資会社) |
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
| TMK | Tokutei Mokuteki Kaisha |
| Cooperative | Cooperative |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Individual Business |
🇮🇳 India
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Pvt_Ltd | Private Limited Company |
| Ltd | Public Limited Company |
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
| Partnership | Partnership Firm |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Proprietorship |
| HUF | Hindu Undivided Family |
| Section_8 | Section 8 Company (Non-profit) |
| Producer_Company | Producer Company |
| OPC | One Person Company |
| Cooperative | Cooperative Society |
| Trust | Trust |
| Society | Society |
🇨🇳 China
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Ltd | Limited Liability Company (有限责任公司) |
| JSC | Joint Stock Company (股份有限公司) |
| WFOE | Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise |
| JV | Joint Venture |
| Rep_Office | Representative Office |
| Partnership | Partnership Enterprise |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Individual Business |
| FIE | Foreign-Invested Enterprise |
| Cooperative | Farmers’ Professional Cooperative |
🇧🇷 Brazil
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Ltda | Sociedade Limitada |
| SA | Sociedade Anônima |
| Eireli | Empresa Individual de Responsabilidade Limitada |
| MEI | Microempreendedor Individual |
| LTDA_ME | Microempresa Limitada |
| EPP | Empresa de Pequeno Porte |
| Cooperativa | Cooperative |
| SCP | Sociedade em Conta de Participação |
| Empresario_Individual | Individual Entrepreneur |
🇲🇽 Mexico
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| SA | Sociedad Anónima |
| SRL | Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada |
| SC | Sociedad Colectiva |
| SCS | Sociedad en Comandita Simple |
| SCA | Sociedad en Comandita por Acciones |
| SAPI | Sociedad Anónima Promotora de Inversión |
| SAS | Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada |
| Persona_Fisica | Individual (Physical Person) |
| SOFOM | Sociedad Financiera de Objeto Múltiple |
🇸🇬 Singapore
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Pte_Ltd | Private Limited Company |
| Ltd | Public Limited Company |
| LP | Limited Partnership |
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Individual Business |
| Partnership | General Partnership |
| Branch | Branch Office |
| Rep_Office | Representative Office |
| Trust | Trust |
| Society | Society |
| Cooperative | Cooperative |
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Ltd | Limited Company |
| PLC | Public Limited Company |
| Partnership | Partnership |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Sole Proprietorship |
| Branch | Branch Office |
| Rep_Office | Representative Office |
| Trust | Trust |
| Cooperative | Cooperative |
🇰🇷 South Korea
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Co_Ltd | Jusik Hoesa (주식회사) |
| LLC | Yuhan Hoesa (유한회사) |
| Partnership | Hapmyeong Hoesa (합명회사) |
| LP | Hapja Hoesa (합자회사) |
| Branch | Branch Office |
| Rep_Office | Representative Office |
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Individual Business |
🇷🇺 Russia
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| OAO | Open Joint Stock Company (открытое акционерное общество) |
| ZAO | Closed Joint Stock Company (закрытое акционерное общество) |
| OOO | Limited Liability Company (общество с ограниченной ответственностью) |
| PAO | Public Joint Stock Company (публичное акционерное общество) |
| AO | Joint Stock Company (акционерное общество) |
| IP | Individual Entrepreneur (индивидуальный предприниматель) |
| GP | General Partnership (полное товарищество) |
| LP | Limited Partnership (товарищество на вере) |
| Production_Cooperative | Production Cooperative |
🇿🇦 South Africa
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| Pty_Ltd | Proprietary Limited |
| Ltd | Public Company |
| CC | Close Corporation |
| Inc | Incorporated |
| Partnership | Partnership |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Sole Proprietorship |
| Trust | Trust |
| Cooperative | Cooperative |
| NPO | Non-Profit Organization |
| NPC | Non-Profit Company |
🇦🇪 UAE
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| LLC | Limited Liability Company |
| PJSC | Public Joint Stock Company |
| PJSCC | Private Joint Stock Company |
| Branch | Branch Office |
| Rep_Office | Representative Office |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Sole Establishment |
| Civil_Company | Civil Company |
| Partnership | General Partnership |
| LP | Limited Partnership |
| Free_Zone | Free Zone Entity |
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
| Entity Code | Full Name |
|---|---|
| LLC | Limited Liability Company (شركة ذات مسئولية محدودة) |
| JSC | Joint Stock Company (شركة مساهمة) |
| GP | General Partnership (شركة تضامن) |
| LP | Limited Partnership (شركة توصية بسيطة) |
| LPS | Limited Partnership by Shares (شركة توصية بالأسهم) |
| Sole_Proprietorship | Individual Establishment (مؤسسة فردية) |
| Branch | Branch Office |
| Professional_Company | Professional Company |
Generic/Fallback Values
| Entity Code | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | Catch-all for unrecognized types |
| Unknown | When type cannot be determined |
| Partnership | Generic partnership |
| Corporation | Generic corporation |
| Company | Generic company |
| Enterprise | Generic enterprise |
| Firm | Generic firm |
| Business | Generic business entity |